Teresa Frontado

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Co-Founder and Writer at The 51st

Co-founder of @51stnews. Passionate about news, books & traveling. She/her. Opinions are my own. RTs aren’t endorsements.

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Articles

Cómo acceder a los beneficios de licencia familiar remunerada de DC

3 weeks ago | eltiempolatino.com | Hannah Parker |Teresa Frontado

Después de15 meses de debate en 2016, DC se convirtió en una de las pocas jurisdicciones del país en ofrecer tiempo libre remunerado para cuidar de un familiar o de uno mismo.
51st dates: solo edition

4 weeks ago | 51st.news | Martin Austermuhle |Colleen Grablick |Hannah Parker |Teresa Frontado

DCish — 8 min read At the 51st, we're all about community and spending time around people who make your world brighter, happier, and healthier. But we also understand that sometimes, you just end up alone (whether by choice or circumstance), looking for something to do. We've rounded up some of our favorite ways to spend time by ourselves in D.C. We know ...
Your weekly civics roundup

4 weeks ago | 51st.news | Martin Austermuhle |Hannah Parker |Teresa Frontado |Colleen Grablick

Welcome to our revamped Civics Roundup! We worried this was getting lost at the bottom of our Thursday newsletter, so we're giving it a new home that we hope will make it easier to share and use throughout the week. Each week, we list some ways to get engaged in the city – whether that’s protesting, organizing with your neighbors, or testifying before your councilmembers. For more ways to get connected, check out our resources roundup.
Residents grill D.C.'s new MAGA prosecutor in first public meeting

4 weeks ago | 51st.news | Martin Austermuhle |Colleen Grablick |Hannah Parker |Teresa Frontado

“How many gun shops does D.C. have?”It was something of a trick question, but Lamont Mitchell was trying to make a point. “I don’t know the answer,” conceded Ed Martin, the interim U.S. Attorney for D.C.“It’s none,” responded Mitchell, the chairman of the Anacostia Coordinating Council, a 42-year-old community organization that seeks to revitalize neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.
House in no apparent rush to close $1.1 billion hole it blew in D.C.’s budget

4 weeks ago | 51st.news | Martin Austermuhle |Colleen Grablick |Hannah Parker |Teresa Frontado

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a bill expressing the chamber’s resolute opposition to energy conservation regulations for commercial refrigerators and freezers. What the august legislators did not do, though, is much of anything to resolve a problem they created in D.C.’s local finances.
Lo que debes saber sobre los operativos del ICE en D.C.

2 months ago | eltiempolatino.com | Abigail Higgins |Teresa Frontado

La aguanieve caía afuera mientras cuatro docenas de personas se apiñaban el sábado en la estrecha sala de estar de una casa en hilera de Shaw. Otra docena escuchaba desde el pasillo mientras la concurrenciaaprendía los fundamentos legales para responder a los agentes de inmigración en sus hogares, lugares de trabajo o vecindarios tras la promesa inaugural del presidente Donald Trump de deportar a "millones y millones" de inmigrantes.
Local News Shouldn’t Rely on Algorithms-That’s Where You Come In

2 months ago | 51st.news | Mathew Schumer |Teresa Frontado |Abigail Higgins |Maddie Poore

Hundreds of thousands of people in D.C. don’t know The 51st exists … yet. Every time we pop up at events around the city, we meet people who loved DCist and were devastated when it shut down — people who light up when they hear about what we’re building. DCist’s audience was massive. (Around a million monthly visitors at its peak!) Those readers — and other District residents — are still out there looking for local news. There’s just so much news that needs covering.
¿Qué debe saber si lo arrestan en DC?

2 months ago | eltiempolatino.com | Teresa Frontado

Si vive en Washington D.C., es probable que en algún momento entre en contacto con las fuerzas del orden. Desde el FBI y la CIA hasta la policía de la Casa de la Moneda de EE.UU. (US Mint), hay literalmente docenas de agencias policiales que vigilan el Distrito. La policía municipal de la ciudad, el Departamento de Policía Metropolitana (MDP por sus siglas en inglés), detuvo a una persona cada 10 minutos en 2022 y 2023, según un informe de la ACLU, y el 70% de ellas eran negras.
Federal judge refuses gag order on Dallas doctor accused of taking patient data on trans care

Dec 4, 2024 | houstonlanding.org | Teresa Frontado |Monroe Trombly

A Houston judge declined to rule on federal prosecutors’ request to bar a Dallas surgeon and one of his attorneys from making statements that could prevent a fair trial and might endanger law enforcement. But U.S. District Court Judge David Hittner said he would not hesitate to revisit the matter should Eithan Haim and his attorney, Marcella Burke, fail to dial back their criticism of the government’s case. “Let’s just try this in a courtroom.
Meet our team: Teresa Frontado

Nov 21, 2024 | 51st.news | Shedrick Pelt |Chris Mills Rodrigo |Teresa Frontado

What’s your relationship to D.C.? Are you from the area, and if not, why did you move here? I moved to D.C. in the summer of 2022 after accepting a position as executive editor of WAMU/DCist. Frankly, it was love at first sight for me. In my mind's eye, I can still see that first drive from the airport (DCA), with the river gleaming and the trees so green, and then the cars, the noise, and the blur of people walking in Adams Morgan.