Rachel Kurzius
Photo by Mike Maguire.
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- ECLIPSE DAY: Where to find glasses, what to expect, food/drink specials.
- Due in part to Trump’s large family and frequent travel, Secret Service cannot pay agents for hours they’ve already worked. [USA Today]
- Longtime D.C. activist uses poetry to recall the “oddball incidents” in the city. [WAMU]
- Heather Heyer’s cousin: “Why is it that the death of a white woman at the hands of a white supremacist group has finally gotten the attention of white folk? Why have we been turning our heads the other way for so long?” [CNN]
- D.C. opioid overdose-related deaths have nearly tripled in two years, and organizers want the city to do more. [Post]
- RIP Dick Gregory. [Chicagoist]
- Stadium Club owner indicted for fraud, including over political donations. [WCP]
- It’s the first day at DCPS, and at a bevy of charter schools. [Post]
- Historic Bethesda building moved to new location. [NBC 4]
- The process for changing the names of Virginia roads. [WTOP]
- Trying to close a rent control loophole in D.C. a decade down the line. [UrbanTurf]
- Region’s office building boom is outpacing demand. [WBJ]
- Metrobus crash in Chinatown leaves seven injured. [WUSA]
- Maryland man charged in murder of three young girls. [WBAL / Post]
- ICYMI: This small brewpub is content feeling more like a homebrewer’s living room than a brewery.
- ICYMI: Take a look inside the newly renovated Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
- This Day In DCist: Babe City Records celebrates its year anniversary.
