- Local restaurant employees dish on being understaffed and overworked. [WCP]
- Vaccination rates for Latinx people have surpassed white people in Montgomery County. [Post]
- D.C.’s rental assistance program is sending money to landlords who don’t make repairs. [WCP]
- People are having fewer babies in Northern Virginia. [Virginia Mercury]
- It’s time for closing arguments in the Capital Gazette shooter trial. [Maryland Matters]
- MPD says it will stop using pot-sniffing dogs in traffic stops and on patrol. [Post]
- Call Your Mother is crossing the Potomac. [ALXNow]
- Bezos donates a big chunk of change to the Smithsonian. [Washingtonian]
- It’s still really hot out, and it’s going to storm this weekend. [NBC 4]
- ICYMI: How unhoused residents and an ANC commissioner fought a possible eviction from a D.C. park.
- ICYMI: New child tax credit payments are going out to families in the D.C. region.
- This Day in DCist: When the Dupont Circle fountain ran red.
Margaret Barthel