
The photo of Alexandria’s George Washington Birthday Parade is by DCist writer Amadie Hart. Bex Blog also has some photos from the parade. Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 40s.
Two D.C. Schools Closed Today: Classes were canceled today at Cleveland Park’s Eaton Elementary School after a community group spayed over 500 cats in the cafeteria over the weekend. One parent told the Post she was “shocked” to discover “The air was thick with the smell of urine” while visiting the school over the weekend. Meanwhile, D.C.’s Walker-Jones Elementary School is also closed today for testing as some have complained of “flu-like symptoms” since January.
Parking Ticket Politics: The Post profiles the Department of Motor Vehicle’s procedure for hearing challenges to parking tickets, where in 2004 more than one third were able to successfully evade their ticket.
Briefly Noted: Hunter S. Thompson called the first blogger … a Metro train hit a person at the Fort Totten station yesterday …