Morning Roundup: Glenn Youngkin’s Campaign Attacked A High Schooler On Twitter

Feb 07, 2022

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s campaign attacked a high schooler on Twitter. [Post]
Residents are raising concerns about fires that repeatedly displace families at a transitional housing building in downtown D.C. [Post]
The FBI is investigating the recent bomb threats made against Howard University and several other HBCUs. [Informer]
Jorge Zamanillo will lead the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino. [Washingtonian]
Takoma Park could be getting a huge residential unit. [Urban Turf]
Some D.C. teachers have bought their students lunch, claiming the school provided lunches aren’t satisfactory. [WJLA]
Youngkin hired an outside firm to investigate the I-95 mess that left drivers stuck for 24 hours during a January snowstorm. [WTOP]
After several D.C. residents overdosed on a lethal batch of fentanyl, experts and advocates have renewed calls for decriminalization of all drugs. [Outlaw Report]
A documentary about José Andrés and World Central Kitchen will premiere at South by Southwest next month. [DC Eater]
Today’s dreary and wet weather will give way to sunshine for the rest of the week. [CWG]
ICYMI: Jeff Bezos wants the D.C. Public Library to name the auditorium at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library after Toni Morrison instead of after him.
ICYMI: Did you know we have a local women’s curling league?
This Day in DCist: It was record-breakingly warm in D.C.