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- D.C.’s taxi drivers are either struggling to hang on in the age of Uber and Lyft or have already made the switch. [WAMU]
- A long and little known history of how white developers demolished a thriving black neighborhood, now known as Fort Reno Park. [WCP]
- A chance photograph at Howard ended in multiple modeling offers for this 19-year-old. [Post]
- After attention was drawn to passages detailing sexual harassment in his old book, a Politics and Prose event for Matt Taibbi’s new book was cancelled. [Washingtonian]
- Eminent domain battle over 2 acres of Buzzard Point site is headed to court. [WBJ]
- The final installment of a podcast charting the first year of D.C.’s new all-boys school.
[NPR] - Panel of federal judges will soon weigh in on whether Metro’s woes should change the Purple Line’s plans. [Post]
- D.C. considers how to protect pedestrians and bikers from a similar attack to the one in NYC. [Post, WUSA9]
- Hill East neighbors are angry the city didn’t share its plan to offer up the land around D.C. General to Amazon. [WCP]
- 15 percent of D.C.’s students attend a private school; and 57 percent of them are white. [WAMU]
- Officers busted a Southwest home, taking out $75,000 in cash, 71 grams of cocaine and 53 pounds of marijuana. [WTOP]
- Man who defaced the Lincoln Memorial misses his court date amid visa issues. [WTOP]
- The owner of Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe reflects on 20 years. [Washingtonian]
- ICYMI: What’s on tap in the art world this month.
- ICYMI: “This month, you will be tempted to spend your savings for a worthy cause. Do it!“
- This Day In DCist: Ivy City’s historic Crummell School finally got a plan for redevelopment.
Rachel Sadon