Go Home Already: Serious Business
- City Desk is compiling a lot of evidence that the smoke detectors inside the Harvard Hall apartments in Adams Morgan never went off during last night's fire.
- SI.com reports Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden is part of a federal investigation into the skimming of signing bonuses given to prospects from Latin America.
- David Nakamura asks the important questions: was Mayor Fenty in Dubai to visit his doppleganger? Mike DeBonis has details on the actual business at hand: exchanging best practices and gifts with His Excellency Rashid Mubarak Al Hajiri.
- Don't miss WaPo's Susan Kinzie on how problems at the medical school at George Washington University were a lot worse than the school originally admitted.
- Jason Cherkis calls out Council members Alexander and Thomas for selling out at-risk youth in favor of grumpy seniors.
- WJLA reports that some inauguration workers employed by Florida-based SD Protection still haven't been paid.
- Washington Business Journal reports that Ritz Camera has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- Michael Neibauer in the Examiner found that two-thirds of all District parking meters that reported broken turn out to be operational when a repair crew arrives on-site. "So a person who parks at a meter displaying a 'fail' message may return an hour later to find a working meter flashing zero time and a ticket on the windshield — a process that may repeat several times a day."
- Could good fences make good National Mall? The Washington Times' Timothy Warren brings word that large portions of the Mall will be fenced off from visitors and events for several months to help restore the area after 1.8 million people trampled it during the inauguration.
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