- A New Year means new laws in the District, Maryland, and Virginia. [WAMU]
- Curbed D.C. is saying goodbye (for now, at least). [Curbed]
- A look back at a year of investigating Jack Evans. [The Dig]
- A former Capital One employee writes that the company’s McLean headquarters “is but one lavish testimonial to the success of its bottom-feeding business model.” [New Republic]
- This map shows D.C.’s racially segregated schools in 1915. [Ghosts of DC]
- MilkBoy ArtHouse has closed its College Park venue, but the University of Maryland still plans to put on shows in the space. [Hyattsville Wire]
- Virginia and Maryland both rose in national rankings of the healthiest states. [WBJ]
- A woman was found shot and killed inside her home in Landover Hills, marking Prince George’s County’s first homicide investigation of the year. [FOX 5]
- Here are some great local parks where people are enjoying the first hikes of the New Year. [WTOP]
- We never settled on a name for the past two decades, but at least we can all agree on calling this decade the ’20s. [Washingtonian]
- A longtime sportswriter reflects on Bruce Allen’s “disastrous” tenure with the Washington football team. [WCP]
- Virginia has had major spikes in annual voter turnout during the Trump era. [Post]
- ICYMI: Here’s what we have on our local food wish lists in 2020.
- ICYMI: New indie movie Last Holiday is set in D.C.
- This Day in DCist: Mayor Muriel Bowser was sworn in.
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