In today’s rundown: It’s gettin’ hot everywhere — a look at where cooling centers have opened up across the region. | Thousands of Virginia residents may lose out on free dental care this summer. | Honoring women in Virginia. | Why this can’t be the “year of the woman.”
— With a heat advisory in effect through tomorrow, cooling centers are opening up to help residents beat the heat throughout the metro area. Click here for a full list broken down by county and the District.
— “Advocates for uninsured Virginians say slow action from state and federal officials means that thousands of residents who could have received free dental care this summer will go unserved unless Congress intervenes,” according to this article in the Washington Post.
— The achievements of women who were involved in voting rights efforts, the civil rights movement and the nation’s first women pilots will be memorialized by new historical markers approved for roads and highways in Virginia. Four of 10 new markers honor the contributions of women and women-founded organizations that helped shape history.
— Is it the year of the woman? This Washington Post opinion piece cautions against that label at a time when the “areas where the real money and power reside are occupied almost exclusively by men.”