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- Maryland experiments with digital driver’s licenses. [NBC4]
- The legacy that Theresa Howe Jones leaves behind. [Kojo]
- Sherman Circle gets some benches. [Petworth News]
- This empty lot was slated to be a cool arts space in Shaw … instead, it will be a beer garden. [WCP]
- In news from the merger that never ends: an appeals court upheld the Pepcon-Exelon deal. [WBJ]
- YouTube TV, whatever that is, comes to the D.C. market. [WBJ]
- Another big middle finger to taste and scale. [Popville]
- Chef Jose Andres has released almost a dozen raps. [Washingtonian]
- A forthcoming omakase counter at the Mandarin Oriental will have just four to eight seats. [Washingtonian]
- Study finds that Metro’s labor costs are in line with other major transit systems, in direct contradiction of critics’ claims that they are much too high. [Post]
- D.C. councilmember moves to make changes after damning report on school suspension rates. [Post]
- Some Georgetown merchants want a non-profit Main Streets group. [Current]
- The Dumbarton Oaks gardens are now closed for an irrigation project. [Current]
- ICYMI: The effects of gentrification play out on a soccer field in Columbia Heights.
- ICYMI: This local filmmaker owes his career to an iPhone, Amazon Video Direct, and House of Cards.
- ICYMI: D.C. issued almost 1 million speed tickets last year, nearly double the year prior.
- This Day In DCist: When hawking a fully-mirrored glass table set on Craigslist, best to hype it as a “booger sugar” table.
Rachel Sadon