- Purple Line builders are on the verge of quitting due to legal issues, delays, and increased costs. [WTOP]
- The Atlantic announced that it will lay off 68 people. [Washingtonian]
- Anne Arundel County already paid 100 school nurses to do contact tracing before the state moved to do it. [Post]
- Local chain La Tasca has filed for bankruptcy. [WBJ]
- D.C. Council candidates answer five questions on poverty. [StreetSense]
- City Paper photographer Darrow Montgomery captures an empty D.C. [WCP]
- Memorial Day specials like grill kits, barbecue boxes, and crab feasts to-go. [Washingtonian]
- A U.S. Customs and Border Protection recruiter released personal information of more than 1,300 American University students and alumni. [Post] [Disclosure: AU holds the license for DCist’s parent company, WAMU]
- D.C.’s pro rugby team had its inaugural season cut short due to coronavirus—but the team will be back next year. [WUSA9]
- A Prince George’s County student became the third sister in her family to be valedictorian. [WJLA]
- Longtime White House butler Wilson Roosevelt Jerman died of COVID-19. [Post]
- A tractor-trailer carrying test tubes overturned on the Beltway. [NBC4]
- ICYMI: We read the city’s 80-page report about how to reopen D.C. so you don’t have to.
- ICYMI: As the District considers reopening, councilmembers call for plans to make streets friendlier to pedestrians.
- This Day in DCist: A professor explained why she confronted Richard Spencer at the gym.
Elliot C. Williams