Go Home Already: Trials and Tribulations
- More trickling out this evening on the Ted Loza arrest. He's already been placed on paid administrative leave, for starters. Then there's the question of Loza's involvement with three groups being mentioned in connection with the case: Prisma Communications, an Adams Morgan advertising and graphic design company; United Fleet Management, a firm that handles operations for small taxicab operators; and Fiesta D.C., the annual Latino street festival, for which Loza's wife worked. [all via City Desk]
- Management announced some brutal layoffs at CQ and Roll Call today. Hope you're all getting drunk tonight. [Fishbowl DC]
- Wow! It looks like scientists have made a major breakthrough in the search for an HIV vaccine. Very exciting stuff. [Newsweek]
- Eleanor Holmes Norton defers to the D.C. Council on same-sex marriage, but says people should not judge others. [D.C. Wire]
- The family of Amanda Mahnke, the woman who was seriously injured in the Sept. 3 Metrobus collision at Florida and Connecticut Aveneus, is looking for witnesses to the incident. [Borderstan]
- Rumors abound that the Columbia Heights plaza will be finished on Friday, but there's been no announcement about it from the city that we've received. [New Columbia Heights]
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