Photo by Jarret Hendrix.
- Amid spike in homicides, Bowser asks for expanded police powers. [Post]
- $106,493. That’s how much it costs a family of four to live comfortably in the District. [City Desk]
- A rally for black trans women organized by Black Lives Matter took place in Franklin Square yesterday. [Post]
- A woman has filed a lawsuit against Metro claiming a Metrobus operator verbally and physically attacked her for being gay. [City Desk]
- Five arrested in D.C. for possessing three illegal guns. [WJLA]
- The head of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce is suing to stop a vote for a $15 minimum wage. [WAMU]
- There’s a lot of new housing going up, but most of it is confined to the central part of the city. [GGW]
- Why D.C. wants to ban powdered alcohol. [Washingtonian]
- Courtland Milloy: Institutional racism isn’t just killing black people, it’s the enemy within. [Post]
- Yes, traffic in the D.C. area is pretty God awful. [WBJ]
- A man who jumped the White House fence five months ago was killed after attacking a sheriff’s deputy in a Pennsylvania courthouse. [NPR]
- Northern Virginia man arrested for having an estimated $1.1. million in synthetic drug materials. [NBC4]
- A new documentary captures what life is like at D.C. General. [Post]
- Community activists hold rally for peace in Southeast D.C. [WJLA]
- The story behind the songwriting of D.C. art-punks Gauche. [Bandwidth]
- You want to read another interview with Ian MacKaye? Of course you do. This one complete with terrifying accompanying portrait. [Huck]
- This Day in DCist: T H E T R U T H I S O U T T H E R E.