Natalie Delgadillo
- With a bill nominally alive at the D.C. Council, Bowser is still trying to make the free Circulator happen. Says one councilmember: “She can keep tweeting, but she knows what the story is. The budget is done. It’s not going to happen.” [Post]
- It’s back to school time for many students in th District and Virginia. [FOX 5]
- We have only one thing to say about this, and it is: absolutely not. [WTOP]
- The Georgetown Waterfront’s history as a port involved in the slave trade. [NBC Washington]
- Bijan Ghaisar’s family is “shocked and hurt” that the U.S. Park Police chief who oversaw the investigation into Ghaisar’s fatal shooting by two Park Police officers is now being promoted to a more prestigious role at the Department of the Interior. [WTOP]
- It’ll be cloudy at first this week, but then it’s going to get nice for Labor Day. [CWG]
- Seven people were injured in a shooting at a 2-year-old’s birthday party in Prince George’s. [FOX 5]
- Georgian restaurant Tabla will open on Georgia Avenue in late 2019. Order the soup dumplings. [WCP]
- No more Masa 14. [Popville]
- A natural gas leak is likely the cause of this explosion that destroyed a building in Columbia, Maryland. [Post]
- August’s best bars. [Eater]
- Summer volunteers lent a hand to school gardens through this new program. [Post]
- ICYMI: A woman describes a “really humiliating” breastfeeding experience at Nats Park.
- ICYMI: A 20-year-old Tennessee man was arrested for threatening to “shoot up” a Planned Parenthood in the District.
- This Day in DCist: Patrons sued Tropical Smoothie Cafe after they contracted Hepatitis A from infected strawberries in their smoothies.
