- WUSA9’s Bruce Johnson reports that the boot has come off Marion Barry’s car, after Barry paid $500 of the $705 he owed the city.
- Fresh off being jeered at the Kennedy Center, Kwame Brown told reporters today that he plans to “win back the trust” of the District. (Apparently, the reclamation effort includes continuing to throw Department of Public Works chief Bill Howland under the bus.)
- It looks like the Maryland House of Delegate’s final vote on gay marriage could come on Thursday.
- Sekou Biddle introduced legislation today which would give the city the option to require new city hires who don’t live in the city to pay back four percent of their salary. (Notice how we didn’t use the word “tax” in that previous sentence? That’s because it technically isn’t one.)
- Amanda Hess reports that many District restaurants with single-stall bathrooms haven’t been rushing to comply with the city’s Human Rights Act requirement to offer one unisex bathroom.
- Won’t someone please think about the feng shui on 8th Street SE? Phew, here’s a group of residents to the rescue: “The five story corner tower at 8th and D Streets, and the five story entrance to the apartment complex mid-block on 8th Street will mar the historic viewscape, block light and air, and “mock” the modest scale of the rowhouses across the street. The proposed heights are not only out of harmony with the neighborhood but also emphasize the building’s massiveness.”
- Vince Gray was supposed to testify at a House hearing on D.C. school vouchers this morning, but was taken off the witness list late last night. Eleanor Holmes Norton consequently lashed into Republicans at the hearing this morning, accusing them of rigging the hearing’s logistics so that it wouldn’t work with Gray’s schedule and “disrespect[ing] his office.”
- Thanks for the recycling bins, Pepsi.
- Deuce of Davenport tempers the excitement about Nationals phenom-in-waiting Bryce Harper, who struck out twice in his first spring training game yesterday, but got a hit today: “DC might actually be one of the worst cities in all of sports in terms of positively assisting in a young athlete’s growth.”
- Want to attend this year’s Sakura Matsuri, the culmination of the National Cherry Blossom Festival? Sign up to volunteer or prepare to pony up five bucks to the Japan-America Society — otherwise, you’ll be staring at a wall. Of course, walking around the cherry blossoms will still be totally free.
Photo by ::FiZ::.
