Hurricane Maria - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:03:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Hurricane Maria - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 The Heroic Story of How Jose Andres’ Charity Feeds 250,000 People a Day in a Pandemic https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/07/19/world-central-kitchen-jose-andres-how-you-feed-250000-people-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-central-kitchen-jose-andres-how-you-feed-250000-people-pandemic Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:00:45 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1171749 Around 7:00 am, the first of the crew begins shuffling into Nationals Park. By 7:30, about 30 cooks have arrived. By 8, kitchens across the stadium are buzzing and clanging as the cooks thrash broccoli, dice onions, and row their way through Titanic-size skillets of tender beef. At 8:30, the first volunteers show up in […]

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While You Were Paying Attention to Ukraine, Here’s What Trump’s Appointees Achieved https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/12/31/while-you-were-paying-attention-to-ukraine-heres-what-trumps-appointees-achieved/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=while-you-were-paying-attention-to-ukraine-heres-what-trumps-appointees-achieved Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:16:37 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=961810 In 2019, the Trump administration issued 44 executive orders, signed 94 bills into law and finalized more than three thousand new rules. One hundred judges were confirmed to the federal bench, the most of any year in Trump’s term. Simply put, it was a busy year in Washington. But there were dozens of stories that […]

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Meet Nate Mook, the Documentary Filmmaker Who’s Leading José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/05/nate-mook-world-central-kitchen-jose-andres/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nate-mook-world-central-kitchen-jose-andres Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:00:30 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=835426 Hurricane Maria had just hit Puerto Rico when José Andrés reached out to Nate Mook hoping to track down a satellite phone. The celebrity chef/restaurateur was about to leave for the island territory to see how his nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, could help, and Mook—a documentary filmmaker who had helped produce a PBS documentary about […]

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George Washington University’s Public Health School Is Looking for the Lessons in Hurricane Maria https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/02/27/puerto-rico-taps-gw-team-to-determine-hurricane-maria-death-count/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=puerto-rico-taps-gw-team-to-determine-hurricane-maria-death-count Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:00:22 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=308152 Last week, George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health announced that it will conduct an independent review of fatalities caused by Hurricane Maria, the massive storm that ravaged Puerto Rico last Steptember. The storm’s official death toll sits at 64, but media reports have put it at closer to 1,000. Much has been made […]

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