Colleen Grablick
- FEMA is supplying D.C. with six trailers to store a surge of dead bodies. [WJLA]
- Civil rights leader Dorothy Height’s name is spelled wrong on the D.C. post office that’s named in her honor. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she will fix it. [Washingtonian]
- Breaking down the race between Brandon Todd and Janeese Lewis George for the D.C. Council Ward 4 seat. [WCP]
- The hyperlocal D.C. newspaper, The Northwest Courier, is indefinitely suspending operations. [Northwest Courier]
- D.C.’s last-living government employee who served in World War II passed away from the coronavirus. [WJLA]
- Despite limited staff and no visitors, the animals at the National Zoo are getting along just fine. [FOX 5]
- Maryland’s congressional delegation announced an additional $44 million in federal relief money for the state’s HBCUs. [WJLA]
- Virginia’s Gold Cup horse race may be held without spectators this summer. [WTOP]
- Employees describe how conditions inside Maryland nursing homes left the facilities ravaged by coronavirus. [Post]
- Local collegiate athletes cope with the loss of their senior seasons. [WCP]
- D.C. neighbors came together to rescue a hawk after he got himself tangled up in a fishing line. [Post]
- Goodwill of Greater Washington closed all of its 18 regional donation locations yesterday. [WTOP]
- ICYMI: It might snow in the D.C. region this weekend. Yes, you read that correctly.
- ICYMI: D.C.’s black residents make up 80% of the city’s coronavirus deaths.
- This Day In DCist: Midtown Youth Academy’s founder vowed to keep the gym open despite rapid gentrification.
