On Wednesday, workers picketed at the museum, demanding higher wages and better benefits.

The park includes wide open views of the river, reclaimed for residents from a once fenced-off, contaminated, industrial past.

The transit agency’s planners have been putting together two fall schedules at the same time: One is normal. The other represents a 20% cut in service that would start Aug. 24.

Most commercial buildings, restaurants, and big apartment complexes use private haulers to collect their trash. That made a difference during the DC 33 strike.

The stores' pharmacies will close first, with prescriptions transferred to nearby CVS or Walgreens locations.