The Washington Post may have discovered the best way to battle the public's penchant for only reading the headlines of stories before moving on -- just don't bother changing the text of said headlines from stock placeholders. more ›

DCist reader Jon in Brookland sent in this image of an odd-looking inspection sticker he received from the District government. He wanted to know if it might be a fake, since he'd read about the con artist who has been allegedly posing as a Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs inspector in several D.C. neighborhoods lately. Jon's plumbers had also told him they'd already received a green "approved" sticker for the work they were doing at his property, so this indeed seemed fishy. What exactly is the "Department and Land Regulation Administration," anyway? more ›

DDOT workers were out putting the finishing touches on the contraflow bike lane on 15th Street NW today, installing the permanent plastic pylons that separate the line of parked cars from the new sidewalk-adjacent bike lane. more ›

We all make mistakes. But as this editor can firmly attest, we often rely on our most trusted commenters to save us from our small foibles. Apparently, so do the contributors at the Post's D.C. Wire blog -- DCist commenter extraordinaire and local blogger IMGoph spotted this gem on a post about yesterday's gas leak at Thomas Elementary School in Northeast: more ›

At the beginning of June, the Washington Times launched a fancy redesign of their web site to incorporate a lot of overdue Web 2.0 features, like 400,000 specialized news feeds by topic (neat) and a bunch of new video and audio features (sure, OK). They also moved their nearly nonexistent local coverage into the A section, which we hoped might mean a new emphasis on local news, but so far that hasn't been the case. more ›