In today’s rundown: Can 2011 be the “Year of Giving?” | Local housing isn’t just unaffordable for low-income residents. | Northern Virginia could be getting a memorial to honor a group of suffragists that were badly beaten after a protest.
— Will you help make 2011 the “Year of Giving?” The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region is calling on private donors to give beyond the holiday period. Learn more in this Washington Examiner column titled When your neighbors are in need, give until it hurts“.
— The Washington Post has analyzed housing and income statistics and found that affordable housing is scarce for both lower-income and middle class residents.
— A proposed memorial in Lorton, VA would honor suffragists who were brutally beaten after being arrested during a demonstration outside the White House in 1917. Known as the “Night of Terror,” the event is credited for shocking many into joining the women’s movement. NBC4 reports that the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial is expected to cost $4 million. Organizers hope to have it finished by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
