Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Reading archive 2025-06-10

Casey Trees and Bartlett Tree Experts, A Crowning Partnership Made in the Shade (of Urban Trees)

Do kids feel safe in D.C.? We asked them.

Serving ‘dead time’: D.C. teens needed rehabilitation to keep the city safe. They languished in a violent detention center instead.

D.C. youth, 16, ordered confined until age 21 in killing of disc jockey: Court records show the teen had five pending robbery and assault cases yet was free when he took part in the fatal beating of Bryan Smith in October.

Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population falls to ‘distressing low’: Experts are most concerned about the decline of juvenile crabs.

GOP bill could worsen inflation and lead to financial crisis, economists warn: Former treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers is among the critics of Trump’s big tax bill, saying it could stoke “stagflation.”

 - "A police spokesperson said Monday that investigators don’t believe the perpetrators or the victims had come to the area to participate in WorldPride events."

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"Earlier she had cited problems in three of the past six years during Pride weekends, including a 2019 incident in which a man was arrested in the park after gunshots caused the public to panic; a 2023 case of vandalism that Smith said caused 'approximately $175,000 in damage to the historic fountain'; and a 2024 incident in which a large group of juveniles got rowdy in the park, drinking and smoking and engaging in fights."

One killed, six hurt in three daylight shootings, D.C. police say: On Mount Olivet Road NE, a black sedan pulled up, and three men dressed in black fired at people outside a store, killing one and wounding three others.

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