- Virginia is preparing to change 10,000 streetlights from yellow sodium lights to whiter LEDs to save millions in energy costs. [WAMU]
- Construction has officially started on the interim Florida Avenue bike path that DDOT agreed to install after a bike activist was killed last spring. [GGW]
- A Montgomery County councilmember introduced a bill that would make air conditioning mandatory in every rental unit. [WJLA]
- A third resident has died at the Springfield retirement home where a respiratory illness is making dozens of people sick. [WJLA]
- Prosecutors want to see tax records for the Capital Gazette shooter to prove he was competent enough to understand his actions. [Post]
- A small Cessna plane made an emergency landing in shallow waters in Ocean City as beach-goers watched. [WTOP]
- Dupont Circle just got a new Japanese gastropub that serves bento boxes and turns into a club late at night. [Eater]
- Police arrested an art instructor in Gaithersburg for the alleged sexual abuse of two male students. [Fox5]
- Nonprofits are taking traumatized veterans and their families on therapeutic retreats to rural areas. [Post]
- Amazon’s arrival in Virginia is raising the cost of living in an already expensive region. [Curbed]
- The House voted along partisan lines to pass a resolution condemning Trump’s racist tweets against four minority congresswomen. [Hill]
- The George Washington Parkway came to a halt on Tuesday so a helicopter carrying an injured police dog could land. [WTOP]
- ICYMI: House Republicans are demanding more information on Metro’s investigation into Jack Evans, calling the probe a “whitewash”.
- ICYMI: They may not be as popular as cherry blossoms, but D.C.’s crape myrtles are easily as colorful.
- This Day in DCist: The Natural History museum got a new—but very old—T. rex that was shipped in wooden crates.
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