- What do you need to get by in D.C.? According to a report by Wider Opportunities for Women, an individual without kids or a car in the District needs to make $32,000 to be “financially secure”; a family of four in Fairfax County, though, needs to pull in $108,000 a year to meet the same guideline.
- Pretty fantastic correction over at TBD: “This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.”
- Councilmember Mary Cheh will target D.C.’s food deserts with new legislation.
- Corey Moore, the notorious “Teflon Defendant” who beat three murder charges and who authorities have been trying to nail down for years, may have finally slipped up by getting caught carrying a half-kilo of cocaine in Montgomery County. After Moore’s arrest, police found a gallon of liquid PCP valued at $77,000, guns and $44,000 in cash at his apartment.
- Malcolm Kenton argues in favor of public pay toilets in D.C.
- Marion Barry dishes out tax advice. Shockingly, it isn’t one hundred percent accurate.
- Washington’s rental market: still going strong.
- Amtrak had a pretty good fiscal year: ridership was up six percent, and revenue was up nine percent.
- Transformers annoyance alert: Metrobus routes P2 and P6 will detour tomorrow night beginning at 6:30 p.m. until 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning along the Mall to accommodate Mr. Bay’s blow-up-o-rama.
- Lots of great local charities are up for Charity of the Year in the 2nd Annual Classy Awards. Go vote for your favorite.
Photo by amarino17.
