Go Home Already: Tricked Out
- The latest in the OCTO investigation: the city is set to fire 23 contractors who were tied to companies named in the affidavit against Yusuf Acar and Sushil Bansal.
- WaPo digs up old 1977 statement by former president Jimmy Carter, in which he supports D.C. voting rights! Woo! But not statehood. Boo.
- On the heels of news that DCPS enrollment is down, comes word that public charter school enrollment is unsurprisingly up.
- Heh. Dana Milbank catches a bunch of Hill reporters mistaking Georgia Farm Bureau president Zippy Duvall for AIG Chairman Edward Liddy. This kind of thing happens more often than you'd think with members of the House of Representatives, too.
- Double heh. Police prostitution sting nets D.C. police officer. Even better, after attending john school, the officer in question is now back on the job, assigned to a foot patrol in 4D.
- The Anti DC reveals how her stimulus bonus appears in her unemployment check, muses on what it all means: "In essence, aren't AIG employees and I both getting rewarded for failure?"
- SWDC Blog reports on new bike lanes planned for I Street SW, which sound like they'll be a big help there: "Like many streets in Southwest, I St. has no lane markings for several blocks. There's not even a median line in some places, and the street is quite a bit wider than one lane in each direction."
- Bread for the City's blog has started a weekly feature identifying which local service non-profits need help with donations. First up, So Others Might Eat (SOME) is in need of donations of thermal underwear, socks, washcloths and bars of soap.
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