TEEN PREGNANCY | In DC, “an uptick in teen pregnancy, after more than fourteen years of dramatic declines” – commentary by Brenda Rhodes Miller (WAMU, 6/29)
HIV/AIDS | Report: New AIDS Cases Decline In DC (WTOP, 6/28), and testing is up.
JUVENILE JUSTICE | Proposal would identify youths after second serious crime (WaPo, 6/29) – “radical shift for a juvenile justice system grounded in rehabilitation”
GIVING | “Despite a growing interest among wealthy donors in using their money to eradicate world poverty and disease, a philanthropist’s ticket to fame in New York society is still the arts.” (Crain’s NY, 6/27) – “People have multiple motives…”
ENVIRONMENT | Executive Director of Casey Trees “urge[s] [DC's] mayor and council to restore the Tree Fund money and plant the 2,000 trees that residents and those who paid fees into the fund are owed.”
HOMELESSNESS | Dvorak column: D.C. shelter system over hot weekend left homeless family feeling out in cold (WaPo, 6/29) – “On Friday, during a D.C. Council hearing, advocates for the homeless testified that extreme heat is as dangerous as extreme cold.”
