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- Meet an 89-year-old woman and the 6-foot Jesus statue that she regularly brings to the Capitol. [Washingtonian]
- Millennials houseplants. [Post]
- As officials move quickly on the Purple Line, some residents say they haven’t been given enough notice about closures. [Bethesda Beat]
- 300 DACA recipients attend Montgomery College and there are likely thousands more in the county. [Bethesda Beat]
- Betsy DeVos to turn back Obama-era Title IX protections. [Politico]
- A few dozen protesters greeted her in Arlington. [ARLnow]
- Report: Metro and the VRE bring half a billion in taxes annually to Virginia. [WAMU]
- Why Upshur Street is the best place to eat in D.C. right now. [Post]
- “You can’t have a triathlon if the swim keeps getting cancelled.” [Washingtonian]
- Why a for-profit developer is seeking to designate the Fannie Mae headquarters a historic site. [WCP]
- The feds no longer consider D.C. a “high-risk” partner in job training and employment programs. [Post]
- Activist group hangs effigies of clowns wearing KKK robes in Richmond. [RTD]
- D.C. is missing tons of street signs. [NBC4]
- Man killed in Congress Heights appears to have been the target of a string of shootings in the weeks before he was killed. [Post]
- ICYMI: Make your dream Metro map.
- ICYMI: D.C. is getting a store stocked entirely with locally made goods.
- ICYMI: Coyotes are here to stay in Rock Creek.
- This Day In DCist: The Washington Spirit played the national anthem early so Megan Rapinoe couldn’t take a knee.
Rachel Sadon