Mayor Adrian Fenty isn’t having what one would call a stellar week. First he gets busted letting a buddy drive him around in his mayoral SUV. Then he’s faced with the first real competition for the 2010 election. And after a $75,000 heater is installed in the public pool in which he trains, he’s forced to issue a quasi-apology and deny that favoritism played a role in the decision. Now the City Paper’s Loose Lips has found that the mayoral SmartCar was recently hit with a $50 speeding ticket on East Capitol Street. (Thankfully, should the ticket be contested in D.C. it may well be dismissed!) But better yet, a little digging finds that one of Fenty’s assistants might have been driving the car as of late. No, it’s not a violation of the law, but it begs some questions that LL is looking into. TGIF, right Adrian?

Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee: We were there. It was a-w-e-s-o-m-e.

The Dream is Dead: No döner kebab on Metro. The Post reports that Metro’s Board of Directors voted down the idea of including food and drink in a proposal to install retail kiosks in some stations to help raise revenue for the system. So what might me expect to be sold in these kiosks when they finally come to pass? Umbrellas, newspapers, flowers and dry-cleaning services. Yippee.

Krispy Kreme Destroys Plumbing: Wow. That headline can be taken the wrong way. The Examiner writes that Fairfax County is taking donut-maker Krispy Kreme to court, hoping to recoup millions of dollars in costs for repairing a sewage system that was destroyed by grease and yeast dumped at the company’s Lorton plant. The grease buildup in some of the county’s sewer pipes was so intense that “public works officials ran a closed-circuit camera along a pipe to show the grease deposits, only to get the camera stuck in the buildup.” Krispy Kreme denies the charges.

D.C. Crime Bill Delayed: A massive crime bill aimed at responding to the usual spike in summer crime won’t be put to a vote next week, reports the Washington Times. Attorney General Peter Nickles has accepted that the D.C. Council won’t likely be ready for an emergency vote on the bill as he had originally hoped, but he expressed optimism that it would be voted on in the near future. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), a chief foe of the controversial crime bill, has argued that he was to finish reviewing the legislation before putting it to a vote in the council.

Briefly Noted: Infamous D.C. youth detention center closes its doors … Ground broken on new Anacostia River park … New regulations on Maryland driver’s licenses confuse immigrants … D.C. EMS touts service improvements.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2008, Politics and Prose jumped in to defend Comet Ping-Pong against an overzealous ANC commissioner. In 2007, we saw rock-throwing kids return to Columbia Heights and explored the links between drugs and disenfranchisement.

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