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  Charles Allen · [email protected]
July 28, 2020 at 3:12 PM

7-28-20 Ward 6 COVID-19 Update

NationBuilder Friend -- I want to share a quick update today on two new changes in how the District is responding to and slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus that are now in effect. At the top, I want to also note the Mayor extended the Public Health Emergency through Octo…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
July 16, 2020 at 2:06 PM

7-16-20: Ward 6 Neighborhood & COVID Update

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- Last week, the Council passed on first vote the $16 billion budget for the District of Columbia's FY21 (Oct 1 - Sept 30). We will take a second and fin…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
July 2, 2020 at 7:36 PM

Ward 6 Update: Judiciary Budget, Statehood, and Fireworks

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- Happy July! Originally, I was going to focus an update on my proposed budget for public safety agencies, but there's a lot of other important informati…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
June 22, 2020 at 1:21 PM

The District is Moving Into Phase 2 Re-Opening. Here's What You Need to Know.

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- Starting today, the Mayor has declared the District will enter Phase 2 of Re-Opening. There are a lot of big changes in store, and I'll run through a f…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
June 16, 2020 at 12:56 PM

6-16-20: Ward 6 Neighborhood & COVID-19 Update

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- A lot has happened since my last update. I want to begin by saying thank you. So many Ward 6 neighbors have diligently taken to wearing a mask when the…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
June 4, 2020 at 12:16 AM

Virtual Ward 6 Budget Town Hall Tomorrow (June 4) @ 7:30 PM

NationBuilder If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- Tomorrow night I'll be holding my annual Ward 6 Budget Town Hall - virtually. There's no use pretending this is another iteration of this annual event. We aren't in normal times and I don't want …
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
June 1, 2020 at 10:05 PM

A Note To My Ward 6 Neighbors

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- I am sure you felt, as I did, so many emotions watching or being part of the protests over the weekend. Thousands of DC residents peacefully and passio…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
May 29, 2020 at 4:14 PM

DC is Moving Into Phase 1 Re-Opening. What Does That Mean?

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- Today, the District of Columbia enters a Phase 1 Re-Opening, loosening a few of the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavir…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
May 26, 2020 at 10:00 AM

Ward 6 COVID-19 Update: 5-26-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- I hope you had a restful Memorial Day weekend. Sometimes I feel like it’s hard enough to distinguish a weekend from a weekday, but a holiday almost seem…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
May 15, 2020 at 3:46 PM

Ward 6 COVID-19 Update: 5-15-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- This week brought news of an extended Stay-At-Home order by the Mayor. If you’ve been following the data and updates on DC’s testing and infection rates…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
May 6, 2020 at 5:25 PM

Ward 6 COVID-19 Update: 5-6-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- April was hard. On many levels. We’ve watched the daily counter of lives lost to COVID continually tick up higher and higher. We’ve had to tell our kids…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
April 26, 2020 at 12:51 PM

Ward 6 COVID-19 Update: 4-26-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- At times, responding to this pandemic has been a bit like building the plane while flying it. Between rapidly expanding unemployment insurance, creating…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
April 17, 2020 at 8:40 PM

Ward 6 COVID-19 Update: 4-17-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- Who are you staying home for? It's an important question to have an answer to as the weeks drag on. I have friends who are working on the front lines of…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
April 8, 2020 at 7:29 PM

Ward 6 COVID-19 Update: 4-8-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- I hope you’re doing well and staying safe. If you’re like me, it’s a tough adjustment to hear the sounds of Spring all around us, and then see neighbors…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
April 7, 2020 at 12:38 AM

Ward 6 Facebook Town Hall - Tomorrow, 8:30 pm

NationBuilder If you'd like to unsubscribe from future emails, click here. Friend -- There's a lot going on right now and the news moves fast. We're all doing our best to work and live while staying at home as much as we can. And I know you have questions about our response to th…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
April 1, 2020 at 2:16 PM

Ward 6 Coronavirus Update: 4-1-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage. To unsubscribe from future emails, click here. Friend -- Let me start off this note by saying thank you. I know many, many Ward 6 residents are diligently following physical distancing guidelines and doing their part to st…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
March 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM

Ward 6 Coronavirus Update 3-25-20

NationBuilder Click here to view this as a web page. If you don't want to receive these updates, click here. Friend -- Breaking News: District closes all non-essential businesses beginning tonight at 10 pm! Beginning tonight at 10 pm, the District will close all businesses deemed…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
March 18, 2020 at 3:05 PM

Ward 6 Coronavirus Update, 3-18-2020

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage.To unsubscribe from future updates, click here. Friend -- The scope of this public health crisis is deep and wide. Yesterday, the Council passed a number of emergency measures to help cope with the immediate fallout from th…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
March 14, 2020 at 12:00 PM

Ward 6 Coronavirus Update, 3-14-2020

NationBuilder Click here to view this email as a webpage.To unsubscribe from future updates, click here. Friend -- As promised, I'm reaching back out with the latest information as the District takes steps to mitigate the spread and impact of coronavirus on our community. The act…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
March 11, 2020 at 5:34 PM

Novel Coronavirus Update 3-11-20

NationBuilder Click here if the email is hard to read.If you want to unsubscribe, please click here. Friend -- As we work to contain, mitigate, and manage the spread of the novel coronavirus, I'm reaching back out with updates. Information is changing daily, so this likely won't …
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
March 6, 2020 at 3:24 PM

Ward 6 Neighborhood Update

NationBuilder Click here if the email is hard to read.If you want to unsubscribe, please click here. Friend -- I wanted to send out a quick neighborhood update with a few pressing updates. Coronavirus Updates: First, I want to get out some information on what we know about COVID-1…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
February 24, 2020 at 4:05 PM

Ward 6 Neighborhood Update

NationBuilder Click here if this email isn't displaying cleanly.?If you'd like to unsubscribe from these updates, click here. Friend -- We are a little more than halfway through Performance Oversight here at the Council. Performance Oversight is a specific time frame at the Counc…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
January 25, 2020 at 11:15 AM

Ward 6 Update: the Future of Union Station, Eastern Market Survey, and Jobs in Southwest

NationBuilder Email displaying oddly? Click here. Friend -- Happy new year to you, Ward 6! I'm looking forward to 2020 and more opportunities to continue working to make sure Ward 6 is a great place everyone can call home. As we begin a new year, that means the Council begins its…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
December 12, 2019 at 7:05 PM

Ward 6 Neighborhood Update

NationBuilder Email Displaying Oddly? Click here. Friend -- Once we hold the Brickies, every December just seems to fly by. In part, that's because Ward 6 shifts into a stunning holiday mode that fills up the calendar and brings a little sense of wonder to our neighborhoods. From…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
December 3, 2019 at 9:11 PM

This Thursday is the Ward 6 Brickie Awards!

NationBuilder Friend -- The 2019 Ward 6 Brickie Awards are this week! This is Ward 6's annual get-together, free and open to all Ward 6 resident - and it's all happening Thursday from 6-8 pm. We have food and drink donated by Ward 6 businesses and organizations. We will be holding th…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
November 27, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Ward 6 Neighborhood Update: Pre-Thanksgiving Edition

NationBuilder Friend -- Will someone please tell me where has the Fall gone? I feel like I blinked and we went from Labor Day to Thanksgiving. Anyway, before everyone turns to family and turkey (or maybe Tofurkey?) and hopefully a chance to rest over Thanksgiving, I wanted to sha…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
November 6, 2019 at 7:19 PM

Ward 6 Update: Brickies, Small Biz Bills, and Public Safety Updates

NationBuilder Friend -- What a week! It was only one week ago that the Washington Nationals won the World Series and joined the Caps and Mystics in bringing a trophy to DC. I hope you were able to join the celebration parade this weekend and catch up on sleep after so many late n…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
October 21, 2019 at 5:17 PM

Ward 6 Public Safety Update

NationBuilder Friend -- Over the past week and a half, I’ve met with neighbors in Shaw, Southwest, H Street, and Capitol Hill to talk about recent gun violence. We need to begin by making clear that every single person deserves to live in a safe community and that gun violence create…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
October 5, 2019 at 11:01 AM

Saturday Morning Ward 6 Neighborhood Update

NationBuilder Email displaying oddly? Click here. Friend -- Fall is here, even if it we set a record high temperature for October this week, I think we can finally settle in for some great weather. The Mystics are playing in?the WNBA finals (heal up quick Della Donne!) and the Na…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
September 18, 2019 at 6:20 PM

Hands Off DC! Join Me Tomorrow at Congress.

NationBuilder Friend -- On a cold evening in February two years ago, you and hundreds of your neighbors joined me and District leaders at a rally outside of the Capitol to say "Hands Off DC" when an overzealous (and now out of office) congressman from Utah threatened to mess with…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
September 12, 2019 at 2:57 PM

One week from today : A US House Hearing on DC Statehood

NationBuilder Friend -- In just one week, a historic hearing will take place as the US House of Representatives will hold a hearing to consider HR 51, which would make the District of Columbia the 51st state in the nation! This is a really, really big deal -- it's been more than two d…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
August 28, 2019 at 4:10 PM

Ward 6 Neighborhood Update

NationBuilder Is this email displaying oddly? Click here to view as a webpage. Friend -- It can't possibly be the end of August already, right? I hope you've been able to enjoy summer and had a chance to take a little break. From Ward 6 Week to some family time at the beach, I'm …
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
July 23, 2019 at 12:04 AM

Thanks for joining my email list!

Friend -- Thank you for joining my email list. I try to keep constituents and residents informed on what's happening in Ward 6 and in your local government. That includes regular newsletters (usually every two weeks-ish), a heads up on when I'll be holding events in your neighborhood, and t…
  Charles Allen · [email protected]
July 23, 2019 at 12:03 AM

Thanks for joining my email list!

Friend -- Thank you for joining my email list. I try to keep constituents and residents informed on what's happening in Ward 6 and in your local government. That includes regular newsletters (usually every two weeks-ish), a heads up on when I'll be holding events in your neighborhood, and t…