Margaret Barthel
- More than 1,000 students each in Prince George’s County and Montgomery County schools have had to quarantine due to COVID-19 exposure. [Maryland Matters]
- The latest in Virginia’s unemployment woes: a monthlong delay in an upgrade to the ancient unemployment insurance system. [Virginia Mercury]
- A tour bus crashed near the Shady Grove Metro station this morning. [NBC 4]
- For the first time, prosecutors are requesting jail time for a Jan. 6 insurrectionist who committed a misdemeanor. [Post]
- Calls for traffic safety in Brookland after a 5-year-old cyclist was killed by a driver. [WCP]
- Montgomery County’s RideOn bus will stay free until the end of the year. [Source of the Spring]
- D.C.’s TikTok stars. Need we say more? [Washingtonian]
- A group of Loudoun County teachers is vowing to sue over the school system’s transgender rights policy. [NBC 4]
- The D.C.-area sisters-in-law helping to publicize and solve missing person cases involving Black people. [Washingtonian]
- Fairfax schools temporarily removed two books from system libraries after a parent and a former teacher complained about sexually explicit and “homoerotic” content. [Post]
- ICYMI: Washington Spirit Coach Richie Burke was fired following a harassment investigation.
- ICYMI: Could the escaped zebras survive roaming around Prince George’s County forever?
- This Day in DCist: Bowser gave Dave Chappelle the key to D.C.
