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MARYLAND

Car with 2 young kids inside i s briefly stolen

A car was stolen in Prince George’s County on Saturday night with two young children inside, police said. The vehicle was abandoned about a block from where it was taken, according to police. The incident occurred about 8:30 p.m. in the 13700 block of Baltimore Avenue in the Laurel area after the driver left the engine running when he left the vehicle to pay for gasoline, said Officer Thomas Lester, a county police spokesman. He said the children were found safe and unharmed. They both appeared to be under 10 years old, he said. — Martin Weil

VIRGINIA

Two dead after police chase on Interstate 95

Two men are dead after a police chase that started on the Capital Beltway ended in a fiery crash in Prince William County early Sunday, the Virginia State Police said. The incident began about 3:45 a.m. after a s tate police trooper attempted to stop a Dodge Charger speeding on the westbound Beltway near Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, state police said. The driver of the Dodge refused to stop and then got off the Beltway and headed south on Interstate 95 before speeding onto the exit ramp for Route 123 in Prince William County, the state police said. The driver lost control of the Charger on the ramp, ran off the road, struck a jersey wall, then rode up a cement wall and struck the bottom of the underpass for the I-95 express lanes, state police said. The car then caught fire. Troopers managed to remove the driver and passenger before the Charger was fully engulfed in flames, police said. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. T he driver was identified as Curtis Armstead Jr., 24, and the passenger as Miquel D. Jenkins, 23, both of Fredericksburg. A bag containing a white powdery substance was found with the men, the state police said. The investigation into the crash is ongoing. — Justin Jouvenal

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spaces. Transit ridership has also grown in recent weeks alongside higher use of downtown parking garages. Metrorail averaged 213,250 daily weekday passenger trips two weeks ago — the final week before it reduced service after pulling much of its fleet — which is more than 40 percent higher than four months earlier. Parking use downtown is up 17 percent compared to this time last year, according to parking reservation app SpotHero. Parking facilities have seen a 3 3 percent rise in daily parking rentals in the past three months compared to the previous three months, the company said. When employers were asked if they expect the share of employees who commute to the office to change their mode of transporta- tion in the next year, almost 60 percent said they think workers will drive more, while 21 percent said employees are likely to bike and walk more. Only 14 percent of employers expect an in- crease in the use of public transit. Business leaders say they wor- ry about the potential for more single-vehicle trips as people are called back to the office. And some fear Metro disruptions that have followed an Oct. 12 Blue Line derailment could further push people into cars. “With the difficulties Metro is having, even now that we’re not fully back to the office, it ’s really disruptive,” Holston said. “We’re rooting for [Metro] to address this as rapidly as possible.” [email protected]

employment in downtowns,” he said. Despite pandemic-related un- certainty, 45 percent of employers surveyed said they are pro- jecting to grow their workforce in the capital region in the next year. Still, 4 in 10 employers said they expect it will be more diffi- cult to find qualified workers than before the pandemic. “Employers are definitely feel- ing the competition for talent and they feel like they have to be a lot more flexible with their workforce than they used to be in order to compete,” Holston said. For some companies, remote work is becoming a recruitment and retention tool. Almost half of employers in the survey said they are willing to hire people who primarily work remotely, a r e- sponse to growing demand in the labor market for flexibility. Although the hustle and bustle of downtown hasn’t returned, activity had been gradually growing in recent months as more workers resume their commutes. Occupancy rates at commercial buildings, which dropped to about 13 percent of normal at the onset of the pandemic, peaked at 32 percent of pre-pandemic levels in September, according to data from Kastle Systems, which issues millions of Americans key fobs to enter office buildings. Across the nation’s 10 largest metropolitan areas, office occupancy was at 35 percent of pre- pandemic levels in September, slightly higher than the cautious Washington region, which has consistently lagged other regions in returning workers to office

ness and trade organizations to the financial, construction, health care and education sec- tors. While the prospects for a return this year were high after vaccines became available in the spring, new outbreaks and em- ployee concerns about virus vari- ants derailed plans for more widespread in-person work. Business leaders say the return probably will continue to be gradual, with telecommuting re- maining an option for many workers post-pandemic. About half of employers say they expect telework in the new year will remain about the same as it is today. The expectation that remote and flexible work schedules will continue after the pandemic sub- sides also appears to be influenc- ing employers’ decisions about office spaces. One in 5 employers in the survey said they are considering changing their real estate foot- print, according to the survey, with about 7 percent saying they are looking at shifting from a single headquarters to having multiple smaller offices scattered across the region. Such shifts indicate the pandemic will change the way businesses operate. The results could be harmful to large business dis- tricts in the region, such as downtown Washington, said JB Hol- ston, the partnership’s chief executive. “There’s a l ot of cascading implications for commercial real estate tax revenue, and for small businesses and small business

wear masks. The District requires every- one, including those who are vaccinated, to wear a mask in indoor public settings. In Mary- land, the state does not have a mask mandate, but some juris- dictions such as Montgomery and Prince George’s counties require people to wear a mask in indoor public venues and businesses. Virgin ia requires masks in schools. A clear majority of Washing- ton-area employers — about 80 percent — said most of their employees will be teleworking at least some of the time this fall, while about half said workers will telework most or all of the time.

Based on the overall responses, about 68 percent of employees would be commuting to work on a given day by next summer, Hillegass said. Respondents ranged from companies with fewer than 50 workers to those with more than 1,000, ranging from government agencies, busi-

mer.
The report shows how con-
cerns over rising transmission of
the delta variant this summer
delayed in-person work for much
of Washington. In a December
survey, the group found employ-
ers had said they were expecting
75 percent of their workforce to
be back in the office by this fall.
It’s the latest indication of a
lengthy delay in the region re-
turning to pre-pandemic habits
and routines.
“This slowing pace of the re-
turn to work sites indicates that
the longer the pandemic contin-
ues, the more likely that work-
from-home and hybrid schedules
are going to just be an en-
trenched business norm,” said
John Hillegass, manager of re-
gional mobility and infrastruc-
ture at the Greater Washington
Partnership, an alliance of chief
executives of some of the region’s
top employers.
The survey included employ-
ers representing nearly 300,000
workers in the greater Washing-
ton region — stretching from
Baltimore to Richmond — and
was conducted from Sept. 9 to
Sept. 30. The responses offer a
snapshot of how company execu-
tives perceive their timeline of
resuming in-office operations.
More than half of employers
said they plan to require workers
to get the coronavirus vaccine or
to submit to weekly testing.
About 65 percent said they have a
quarantine policy for employees
exposed to the virus, while more
than half say they require staff to

WORK FROM B1

Survey finds area employers coming to terms with remote work

“They feel like they have

to be a lot more flexible

with their workforce

than they used to be in

order to compete.”

JB Holston, chief executive of the Greater Washington Partnership

tone. The authors write: “Some Out people try to get In by saying they like the In things, but since Out people can never be In, they can only manage to ruin some good In things.” Said Sheila: “I had taken their style.” Robert Benton and Harvey Schmidt became the epitome of In. Schmidt wrote the music for the long-running musical “The Fantasticks.” Benton gravitated to Hollywood. He co-wrote the screenplay to “Bonnie & C lyde” and directed such films as “Kramer vs. Kramer .” And Sheila? After high school, she went to Johns Hopkins University, then to law school at Catholic University. She worked in a D istrict law firm, then moved to Baltimore. She had two girls, became assistant attorney general for the state of Maryland. In 2019 she retired after two decades as the executive secretary of the Board of Public Works. Former governor Martin O’Malley lauded her as “a pillar of integrity, experience and service.” Sheila lives in Annapolis now. She said that reading the list she wrote at 14, she can’t help but feel, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” I guess that means that both Cassandra and Sisyphus — one seeing the future, the other never quite getting there — are IN. [email protected] Twit ter: @johnke lly

 For previous columns, visit washingtonpost.com/john-kelly.

up in Tenleytown, daughter of a Navy of ficer and a homemaker. “When my father retired, we hired Blackie’s House of Beef for the party and Harden and Weaver were the emcees,” said Sheila, 62. I couldn’t help but notice the similarity to a certain In/Out list that is a New Year’s Day feature of this very newspaper. But The Post’s List debuted in 1978, five years after Sheila sent her list to Washingtonian. Sheila did have an inspiration. In her introduction, she credited a b ook by Robert Benton and Harvey Schmidt titled “The In and Out Book.” “It was my parents’,” she said. “I think it was old even to them.” “The In and Out Book” was published in 1959, with an early version appearing in Esquire, to which both Benton and Schmidt contributed.

The 1959 book is more absurdist than The List th at The Post started 19 years later — “Welsh Nationalism is IN... Seeing Greta Garbo in Bloomingdale’s basement is OUT” — b ut it did set a c ertain

of Washington’s IN people includes activist Julius Hobson, developer and sports magnate Abe Pollin, politician Shirley Chisholm and singer Roberta Flack. Her OUT list includes segregationist Virginia congressman Joel Broyhill, failed presidential candidate George McGovern, NFL quarterback Roman Gabriel and Eddie Cox. Eddie Cox? “Tricia Nixon’s husband,” Sheila said. “Why the freak did I even know about Eddie Cox?” Well, she w as a w ell-informed kid. And she considered herself a true Washingtonian. She grew

expression “Negro” is OUT. Using “black” is in. Most IN of all: Using Black with a capital B. Those observations are general enough, but what’s most captivating about Sheila’s list is its Washington focus: Watching TV is OUT. Watching Channel 26 in IN. Complaining about the pollution in the Potomac is OUT. Doing something about the pollution in the Potomac is IN. The House District Committee is OUT. Home rule is IN. Statehood is even more IN than home rule. Sheila cracked herself up rereading the list. Her roll call

In March 1973,
14-year-old
Sheila McDonald
received a very
polite,
handwritten
rejection note
from the editor of
Washingtonian
magazine.
“It almost got IN the
magazine, but not quite,” editor
Laughlin Phillips wrote of
Sheila’s humorous essay. “Hope
you’ll send us other OUTrage ous
things to consider.”
As Phillips’s distinctive
capitalization suggests, Sheila, a
ninth-grader at Gordon Junior
High in the District, had sent
the magazine an In and Out list.
“I think I j ust wrote it to be
fun,” Sheila explained last week.
She’d unearthed the list in the
spring while preparing for a
reunion of her high school, the
School Without Walls.
“I’m a very careful curator,”
she said. “I keep very little stuff,
but I a lways keep just the right
thing.”
Her li st is a li ttle time capsule
of the Washington of 48 years
ago — and of the Sheila
McDonald of 48 years ago, a
precocious little lefty who had
been reading The Washington
Post since fifth grade.
Among her pronouncements:
Driving to work by yourself is
OUT.
Driving in a c arpool is IN.
And:
Women’s Liberation is IN.
Being a male supporter of
Women’s Liberation is quite IN.
Calling it Women’s Lib is
OUT.
Sheila writes that using the

A 14-year-old’s In and Out list from 1973 is strangely familiar

John
Kelly's

Washington

BENNETT FINNEY Sheila McDonald recently came across a snarky “In and Out” list she wrote while in ninth grade in 1973. She sent it to Washingtonian m agazine, whose editor rejected it with a nice note.

“I’m a very careful

curator. I keep very

little stuff, but I always

keep just the right

thing.” Sheila McDonald

BY DAN MORSE

D.C. police have linked the
suspect of a Saturday night
homicide to a slaying 12 months
ago of a recent Virginia Tech
graduate who was killed at a
24-hour Shell gas station.
Javon Duckwilder, 24, was
charged with two counts of
first-degree murder while
armed, officials said Sunday.
He is accused of shooting
Juwan Smith, 23, who was
found unconscious a bout
8:15 p.m. Saturday in the 2800
block of Alabama Avenue SE.
Smith, of Southeast Washing-
ton, was taken to a hospital
where he later was pronounced
dead, according to police offi-

cials. As a r esult of that investigation, police said, Duckwilder also was charged in the death of Alexander Nwogu, 23, on Oct. 5,

Early that morning,
Nwogu w as at the Shell gas
station in the 4900 block of
Connecticut Avenue NW at Fes-
senden Street when he was
killed, police said.
Nwogu suffered blunt trauma
to the back of his head and a
single gunshot wound to the
middle of his back, according to
a police report, and was pro-
nounced dead at the scene.
Nwogu r ecently had earned a
bachelor’s degree in industrial
and systems engineering at Vir-
ginia Tech, a spokesman for the

school said at the time. His friends said had just started working at a c onsulting firm in Northern Virginia. “ He had a beautiful soul and he would have done a lot in this world. He was taken way too soon from us. It’s not fair,” Nwogu’s fraternity brother Wil- liam Ventura said in an inter- view last year. The Roanoke Times had fea- tured Nwogu in an article last year about college seniors having to forgo a traditional graduation because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nwogu told the newspaper that his father, an officer in the Nigerian army, had planned to travel to the United States for the graduation but

canceled when the in-person ceremony was called off. “To lose that experience is heartbreaking,” Nwogu told the newspaper.

Also on Sunday, D.C. police announced the start of two

homicide cases involving female victims. In the most recent, just after 10 p.m. Saturday police were called to the 3600 block of Jay Street NE for the sounds of gunshots. They found Angela White-Hooks, 52, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. She was taken to a hospital, where she later was pronounced dead. Also Saturday, about 1:25 a.m. police were called to the unit block of 54th Street SE. They found Rickisha Waller- Henderson, 38, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, officials said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. [email protected]

THE DISTRICT

D.C. man charged in slayings — S aturday a nd 12 months ago

The victims were

Juwan Smith, 23, of

Southeast Washington

and Alexander Nwogu,

23, of Virginia.

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