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09/04/2026

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“The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees b...
09/04/2026

“The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back.

In Vermont, Leila Wilson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, is one of the scientists leading an effort to beat Dutch elm disease, which has killed tens of millions of elm trees over the last century. Scientists with the Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy Vermont spent the summer injecting 6,000 young elm trees with Dutch elm disease spores to test their resistance to the disease.

The survivors will be sent to a breeding program with a goal of growing the genetic diversity of disease-tolerant elm trees. They will one day be used for restoration in forests, riverbanks and backyards.

“We will put those newly propagated trees into a seed orchard, basically just a big fenced area, will grow and love those trees for about 15 or so years, at which point they should produce seeds, and that seed can be used for restoration,” Wilson said.”

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09/04/2026

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“The team behind Nesso Plaza, the H Street “urban mall” concept floated back in late 2024, has filed plans to bring a si...
09/03/2026

“The team behind Nesso Plaza, the H Street “urban mall” concept floated back in late 2024, has filed plans to bring a similar concept to Tenleytown.

Jonathan Askarinam and Moe Pishvaeian have purchased the former PNC Bank branch at 4249 Wisconsin Avenue NW (map) with an eye towards transforming the building into a second concept in the same vein as the H Street outpost.

Plans filed with DC’s Board of Zoning Adjustment show the bank building reconfigured into ten small commercial spaces spread across a cellar level, first floor, and second floor, plus a rooftop penthouse addition with a restaurant space and decks on the north and south sides.”

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“A judge criticized the Department of Health and Human Services for citing nonexistent scientific evidence or potentiall...
09/03/2026

“A judge criticized the Department of Health and Human Services for citing nonexistent scientific evidence or potentially AI-generated citations to support sweeping changes to federal teen pregnancy prevention programs.

The Trump administration had said money Congress appropriated for such programs should avoid encouraging teen sexual activity and be used only for programs that promote abstinence and “body literacy.” The administration’s changes were challenged after HHS cut tens of millions in grants.

In his opinion granting a preliminary injunction as the lawsuit continues, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper called the changes “likely arbitrary and capricious” and said the government had failed to provide sufficient evidence for its policy. He wrote that grant solicitations for the program “(remarkably) reference public health studies that appear either not to exist or not to support the propositions for which they are cited — a hallmark of AI-generated citations.” In seven cited articles, two appeared to be entirely made up and three others did not exist in the journals they were attributed to, according to Cooper, a judge who was appointed to the federal court in Washington, D.C., in 2014.”

Read more The Washington Post

“The extreme heat this summer in the DMV has sent many more people than usual to emergency departments and urgent care f...
09/03/2026

“The extreme heat this summer in the DMV has sent many more people than usual to emergency departments and urgent care facilities.

What we know:
Between May 1 and August 30, officials with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) tracked 3,706 visits to emergency departments and urgent care centers for heat-related illnesses. Officials said the average number of visits during that same timeframe is 2,621.

That equates to more than 1,000 additional heat emergencies this summer versus the average summer.”

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“Have you ever found yourself bored on a long Metro escalator, silently wondering, “Why is this thing so slow?” That que...
09/03/2026

“Have you ever found yourself bored on a long Metro escalator, silently wondering, “Why is this thing so slow?” That question recently popped up in a long thread on the r/washingtondc subreddit, with commenters debating whether the pace is, in fact, glacial and why. Might it be due to how many tourists use the escalators? Is it for safety or maintenance reasons? Some on Reddit even claimed the escalators were significantly faster 10 to 15 years ago, then were deliberately slowed down.

But are the escalators actually sluggish? Metro says no: The system follows the national safety-code standard of 100 feet per minute. That sounds right to Tim Marshall,
a private elevator and escalator inspector in Maryland. He tells us 100 feet per minute is actually at the top of the typical range of speeds. For comparison, we asked spokespeople for Philadelphia’s SEPTA system and San Francisco’s BART, and both said their escalators also run at 100 feet per minute.

Marshall says it’s unlikely Washington’s escalators were deliberately slowed down, because units are typically built with a set speed in mind. It’s true that in the early 2010s, Metro’s escalators frequently went out of service, prompting WMATA to replace 145 of them. And in 2021, it began a second replacement project of 139 escalators by 2028. Yet we could find no mention of any intentional slowdown in Metro’s public reports on those projects.”

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