Tasty Morning Bytes – Deaf-friendly D.C., Dismissing Poverty and Controversy over Eden Center
Good morning, DCentric readers! Happy Thursday. Let’s celebrate with some links:
D.C.’s H Street friendly to deaf community “Shortly after it opened, the H Street Country Club bar switched from black napkins to white. It seems like a small change, but it has had a big impact for one group of customers. ‘We recognize the majority of the people in our bar are hearing-impaired,’ said owner Ricardo Vergara…And the napkin color? Deaf customers now have a simple way of communicating their orders by writing them on the white paper.” (Washington Times)
Study dismisses poverty, but try telling that to the poor “As the Heritage researchers see it, however, that sense of deprivation is not the same as poverty, nor is it even widespread. ‘Poor families certainly struggle to make ends meet, but in most cases, they are struggling to pay for air conditioning and the cable TV bill as well as to put food on the table.’ So fret not, poor folks. To join, or rejoin, the middle class, apparently all you have to do is drop Comcast or Fios and turn off the thermostat.” (The Washington Post)
Delayed MLK Dedication Could Draw Smaller Crowd “The King Memorial foundation has applied for a permit to accommodate 50,000 people on Oct. 16. Organizers had expected 250,000 attendees for the dedication’s initial date of Aug. 28, but Hurricane Irene forced a delay.” (myfoxdc.com)
Why many mixed-status families stay that way “Multigenerational mixed-status families composed of U.S. citizens, legal residents and undocumented immigrants, often under one roof, are far more common than one might think. Last week, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, who is Mexican American, acknowledged that her paternal grandparents were undocumented immigrants.” (MultiAmerican.org)
Falls Church’s Eden Center controversy heating up “On Monday night, numerous Eden Center merchants and officials with the Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce spoke to the Falls Church City Council decrying the perceived overkill by the police, and the harm it’s done to their businesses. Last week, a rally for the 19 defendants raised $17,000, and on Wednesday morning Vietnamese business leaders gathered outside Falls Church City Hall before the first court cases were heard.” (The Washington Post)