Margaret Barthel
- Instead of getting vaccinated, large numbers of Virginia state employees are opting for weekly coronavirus testing. [Virginia Mercury]
- Immigrant activists rallied in D.C. to support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented residents, even as the Senate parliamentarian blocked it from the budget. [Post]
- Students had to be evacuated after a Montgomery County school bus got stuck in a possible sinkhole caused by a broken water main. [NBC 4]
- White Flint Metro station might become North Bethesda Metro station. Now’s your chance to weigh in on that name change. [Bethesda Beat]
- Loudoun County is setting up a joint commission to study the history of racial injustices against Black people in the county — and how to rectify them. [WTOP]
- A federal judge ruled that NPR should be allowed to use audio from the Capital Gazette shooter trial in a podcast. [Baltimore Sun]
- Two Marylanders reflect on their decades of work in the civil rights movement. [Post]
- The reward for a rainy Wednesday: a gorgeous weekend. [CWG]
- Alexandria police have been dispatched four times recently for violence involving youth, including a shooting last night. [ALXnow]
- ICYMI: Don’t know much about local government? This website might help.
- ICYMI: No peak-hour pricing? A $1 bus fare? The Metro Board is weighing new fares.
- This Day in DCist: A petition to get the Pope to bless Metro, “so it actually works.”
