In today’s rundown: Exploring the lack of women candidates for the D.C. Council. | A look at the impact the District could feel when the city’s largest needle exchange provider closes. | What happens when mean girls grow up.
— “There’s a D.C. Council race on. Why aren’t any women running?” asks Loose Lips in Washington City Paper. Former and current women council members weigh in and discuss the difficulties of running for and serving on the city council. “…[I]f D.C. voters want more women in office, we need to tell them,” writes Amanda Hess on TBD.com.
— D.C.’s largest needle exchange provider is closing for good and one former employee of PreventionWorks tells WAMU the closing is a “death sentence.”
— “What happens when mean girls grow up?” asks The Washington Post. As it turns out, many of them become well-adjusted, nice women. The ones who don’t participate in The Real Housewives… series.