- Metro board members will decide today whether to increase service hours and decrease fares. [Post]
- The National Mall’s biking and walking paths will be getting a makeover. [WTOP]
- What next school year will look like for D.C. Public School students. [WCP]
- Expect your power bill to go up — D.C. approved Pepco’s plan to increase utility rates. [Utility Dive]
- The bad news: heavy rains are forecasted today. The good news: the rain may silence the cicadas. [WUSA 9]
- D.C. now has its first transitional drug treatment program for women. [Street Sense]
- A 380-unit, 180-foot-tall, mixed-use building is coming to Friendship Heights. [Urban Turf]
- A simple math error led Maryland to drastically underestimate the pollution its landfills are emitting. [Post]
- Selfie WRLD is now open in Northern Virginia. [Washingtonian]
- Locals wax poetic about cicadas. [Post]
- ICYMI: D.C.-area hospitals will start requiring employees to get COVID-19 vaccinations.
- ICYMI: D.C. extended the deadline to renew your license or vehicle registration to Sept. 9.
- This Day in DCist: Hillary Clinton visited Shaw with Mayor Bowser and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Colleen Grablick