An out-of-place salamander
The herps at the Stone Mountain wetland seemed cooperative that Friday morning. Within minutes of starting to search the site, Smith plucked two mountain dusky salamanders from under a piece of old cloth tarp. (âOf course [these two are] under junk instead of natural cover,â he said ironically.)
Smith said the species â which belongs to the dusky salamander genus â is extremely common. The pair draped over his palm werenât the same shade of brown: One had a distinctly yellower hue than the other. The nuance that gave their identity away, he said, was the pale stripe on either side of their heads.
D.C. marked a grim milestone on Friday, with the city seeing its 100th homicide. It represents an accelerated pace of homicides from previous years.
Willie Parker, 45, was found dead with gunshot wounds just before 11 p.m. on Friday. The shooting happened on 41st Street Southeast, near the D.C.-Maryland line.
Parker’s death marked the 100th homicide in the District, and the 99th homicide happened just a day prior, according to police.
On Thursday, 24-year-old Muntsier Sharfi, a former football player with the University of Virginia College at Wise, was shot and killed. He was also a graduate student at Bowie State University working toward his master’s degree in information technology, according to NBC4.
Is Glenn Youngkin really going to try to run a whole campaign for governor on transgender students and some faddish educational theory that no one can really define and which may not even be being taught anyway?
It sure looks that way â and that does a disservice both to Virginia voters and, ultimately, Youngkin himself. Republican strategists may think harping on critical race theory and the occasional transgender student is good politics but by making the culture wars the centerpiece of the Republican campaign in Virginia in 2021 theyâre selling their standard-bearer short â unless, of course, Youngkin really is a culture warrior, in which case his choice of campaign issues is revealing.
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The National Basketball Association finals between the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks present one of the sharpest contrasts weâve seen â not between the two teams, but between the two cities.
As regular readers know, whenever thereâs a major sports championship, weâve engaged in a kind of editorial parlor game â to look at the economies of the two cities represented to see what lessons we might be able to glean.
Here those lessons couldnât be clearer. Phoenix versus Milwaukee sets up a contrast between Sun Belt and the Rust Belt, a fast-growing city on the rise as a technology capital versus a slow-growth city struggling to reinvent itself after its manufacturing base collapsed.