Elliot C. Williams
- Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday deals drew huge, non-socially distancing crowds to restaurants across the region. [Washingtonian]
- Sidwell Friends and other local prep schools are keeping their small-business loans. [Post]
- The Ocean City boardwalk is opening this weekend—here’s what that will look like. [WTOP]
- Sally Quinn modeled the erotic hero of her 1991 bestseller on Anthony Fauci. [Washingtonian]
- Virginia restaurants could reopen for dine-in business in less than two weeks. [Eater]
- Most of this family-owned Northern Virginia gym’s members are still paying to keep it open. [Post]
- The D.C. Council capped delivery app commission fees, the third city to do so. [WCP]
- With fewer cars on the road, speeders are on the rise. [WTOP]
- The African American Last Supper sculpture rediscovered in the drywall of the new home for the Studio Acting Conservatory will stay put. [Washingtonian]
- Both chambers of Congress were given the same warnings, but only senators have returned to Capitol Hill. [NYT]
- Meanwhile, 14 Capitol Police officers have tested positive for coronavirus. [NBC4]
- One spot on the Beltway has seen three tractor-trailer crashes in less than a week. [WJLA]
- ICYMI: The D.C. nurses union says the new hospital deal “resoundingly fails” to meet Ward 8 health care needs.
- ICYMI: Latino and African American activists say it’s “way too early” to reopen Virginia.
- This Day in DCist: Mayor Bowser released a draft of the “New Columbia” state constitution.
