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- In the past six months, violent crime fell by 26 percent. [Post]
- Queer dance party protest takes to Mitch McConnell’s house in healthcare bill protest. [Fox5]
- City Center gets some temporary, free mini golf. [Popville]
- (One of) the problem(s) with how we measure affordable housing. [CityLab]
- Family finds its pet tortoise on the Japanese ambassador’s property. [Post]
- After all the Shaw Bijou hype, Kwame Onwuachi is keeping his next project close to the chest. [Post]
- D.C. tops EPA’s green cities list. [AP via WUSA9]
- Meet the folks who sing the national anthem at Nats games. [Post]
- The annual campaign against illegal ATV and dirt bike riders. [WTOP]
- Man pleads guilty to murdering his estranged wife outside a MD. high school before going on a shooting spree. [WTOP]
- Ed Gillespie has a tightrope to walk and that tightrope’s name is Trump. [Yahoo News]
- Guess which state the NFL thinks the Washington football team plays in. [Post]
- ICYMI: Metro Transit Police pepper sprayed an already-restrained man in the Gallery Place Metro station.
- ICYMI: Even the mayor needs to show ID at the DMV, where many of the city’s progressive values are being enacted
- This Day In DCist: We chatted with Werner Herzog.
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