March 24, 2008
Go Home Already: Send in the Clowns
>> Jayrece Turnbull, Harriet Walter's niece and one of the alleged co-conspirators in the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue embezzlement case, was indicted today by a Maryland Grand Jury on a count of cashing a $410,000 check in funds stolen from the D.C. government. [D.C. Wire]
>> Michael Gorbey, the man who was arrested in January for carrying a loaded shotgun and samurai sword near the Capitol, has been charged with 15 separate counts, including attempting to manufacture a bomb. [The Hill]
>> Snakes were on the plane? An athletic coach at Arlington County's Yorktown High School was bitten by a young rattlesnake this morning as he reached into his luggage after returning from a trip to South Carolina. [WaPo]
>> The D.C. Department of Transportation says it will clear up confusion over competing signs that tell drivers to go two different directions to the get the Nationals stadium. Old signs that direct traffic to RFK are competing with new ones for Nationals Park. [WTOP]
>> A D.C. bill that would give new powers to child welfare bureaucrats to view private records of children and families is encountering resistance from privacy and juvenile-rights advocates. [Examiner]
>> The truth about PostPoints: "A $10 CVS gift card looked like a useful prize. However, at 3,385 points it would take me 677 days of Express reading or almost one year of reading both a print publication and the website to earn enough points to earn it. If I purchased copies of the Post from newsstands for the $10 gift card, it would cost me $338.50 in newspapers. Taking 1 minute a day to enter the Express daily code would add up to 11.3 hours for the gift card." [Goodspeed Update]
>> "Nothing like a fresh brew (and therapy) to wash down a piping hot Senator's Sausage!" [Wonkette]
>> "Eight cars were burglarized in Silver Spring’s central business district between Mar 4 and Mar 12." [Silver Spring Penguin]
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Speaking of signs to nowhere, there are still one or two signs up for the OLD Washington Convention Center, the ones with the concentric Cs and an arrow.
seriously dcist, enough.
@hungeegirl
Care to let the rest of us know what DCist has done to incur your wrath?
Speaking of freakish clowns and elephants, when are the Republicans having their convention?
(see whazzup's link above).
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"I Heart DC" is really a registered trademark? [see photo]
DC Wire officially sucks. Its comments section is being taken over by the Borg a/k/a Rees.
Re: the snake on the plane, anyone else catch the hard-hitting quote in this morning's Express?
"We're not sure where it came from. It's not like it had a passport or anything."
That's some mighty fine journalism there, Lou.
between circus freaks and scary bunnies, i'm beginning to get too nervous to read this blog.
So much for that trip to Bora Bora