Pandemic Migration Costs, Driverless Cars, and Renaming the Commanders

Pandemic-era changes in where people live may be messing with DC’s budget, self-driving cars may soon be messing with DC’s roads, and lots of folks hope the new Washington Commanders owners will mess with the team’s name. 

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As always, our Friday roundup is powered by amazing local journalism: 

• Cuneyt Dil’s piece about how D.C. lost $1.6B in taxable income because of pandemic migration
• WBJ’s Tristan Navera told us all about how D.C.’s tax structure could change, in this episode about the city losing jobs and businesses to Virginia
• Read this letter from local leaders begging the federal government to force workers back into the office
• TechCrunch covered what Cruise’s D.C. expansion could look like
• Check out Time’s piece about how former Tuskegee Airmen feel about renaming the Commanders the “Red Tails”

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