DOJ Raises Prospect of Kennedy Center Demolition — “The Trump administration threatened the demolition of the Kennedy Center if the center is not allowed to close for two years for renovations. The Justice Department floated the notion in a court filing Monday.” [NBC4]
Rare Tree Frog Seen in Huntley Meadows — In recent weeks, a rare blue tree frog “has drawn dozens of naturalists, wildlife enthusiasts and hobby photographers to Huntley Meadows, where visitors have tried to catch a glimpse of a frog that has become a local attraction and generated a flurry of social media attention.” [Washington Post]
Judge: Va. Still Improperly Denying Voting Rights — “A federal judge says Virginia officials incorrectly applied his order in a landmark voting rights case ruling that found the commonwealth had wrongly kept people with certain felony convictions from the ballot box for more than a century … Potentially hundreds of thousands of Virginians who should have been able to vote in the August primary were prevented from doing so.” [VPM News]
Police Chief on Great Falls Killing — “Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis says he anticipates harsher charges for the man who confessed to killing a 42-year-old mother in Great Falls,” stating that “the level of premeditation involved in the murder should bring the charges from second-degree murder to first-degree murder.” [WUSA9]
Young Workers Still Living With Parents — “About 4.9% of households in the DMV include what a new Bright MLS report terms a ‘shadow buyer’ — an employed adult between ages 25 and 39 who’s living in their parents’ home. That’s the 10th-highest share among U.S. metros,” a reflection of the region’s high housing prices and cost of living. [Axios DC]
Tysons Startup Bought for $232 Million — “Los Angeles-area manufacturer Navitas Semiconductor Corp. plans to buy Claros Inc., a McLean startup developing technologies to improve data center energy performance, for $232.8 million … The company said it expects to close the acquisition by the end of the year, which would be a rapid exit for Claros and its investors following its launch” in 2024. [Washington Business Journal]
Mount Vernon Trail Joins Hall of Fame — “Trails advocacy organization Rails to Trails Conservancy announced that the Mount Vernon Trail received 58% of public votes to win the Hall of Fame accolade. The other nominees were National Battlefield Trail in Texas and the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in Ohio.” [ALXnow]
How Local Charity Helps Students — After buying a prom ticket for a student who couldn’t afford one, Mount Vernon High School substitute teacher Ron Fitzsimmons asked local charities “if they paid for smaller things he felt were important to a child’s self-esteem. They all said no … That reality inspired Fitzsimmons and his sister, Laura Fitzsimmons Peters, to launch Alice’s Kids in 2011.” [WTOP]
Record High Enrollment at GMU — “George Mason University undergraduate enrollment will hit a new high this semester with the arrival of more than 7,400 incoming students, thousands of whom packed into EagleBank Arena on Friday for New Student Convocation … Overall enrollment figures are not yet official but undergraduate enrollment is expected to top 29,600.” [GMU]
It’s Wednesday — Today will be mostly sunny with a high of around 88°F. Tonight, expect mostly cloudy skies with a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 a.m.; the low will be around 71°F. [NWS]
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