HEALTH
- D.C. Central Kitchen, along with D.C. Hunger Solutions and the Department of Health, have launched a new program that delivers fresh produce to convenience stores in food deserts around the city. (WaPo, 9/29)
- A farm in Montgomery County seeks to provide job skills and healthy food options to people with developmental disabilities, by employing them as growers and providing specialty produce to group homes. (WAMU, 9/30)
AGING | A segment on All Things Considered covered the challenges of “aging in place” and the high costs of home health care. (NPR, 9/29)
Related: Last year WRAG’s Working Group on Aging looked at aging in place policies and asked whether, for some, it is the “wrong ideal.” (WG Daily, 10/2010)
EDUCATION
- Here’s an interesting take on the connections between housing policy and education reform. (Atlantic Cities, 9/15) This is a good reminder of the importance of taking a cross-cutting look at these issues for those focusing on the implementation of the Region Forward plan in our region.
- Arlington high school loses full accreditation (Examiner, 9/30)
GIVING | 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates’ Charitable Giving Habits (Huffington Post, 9/29)
ENVIRONMENT | Here’s a look at the history of the Anacostia River, from the 1600s, when it was “fed by ‘innumerable sweet and pleasant springs’” (as John Smith put it, when he wasn’t otherwise engaged), to the not very pleasant stream we know today. (WaPo, 9/29)
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Yesterday, China launched its ambitious Tiangong 1 space station, and someone at the government-run television station decided to mark the occasion with a very interesting choice in background music for its coverage of the launch.
-Rebekah
