Enjoy today as temperatures will rise up near 70 degrees. It’d be a great day for a lunchtime walk or extended lunch, if you’re so lucky. Perhaps a stroll past the Robert A. Taft memorial on the Senate side of the Capitol grounds, as seen in this DCist photo taken early Tuesday evening. And speaking of weather, Dan Stillman at Capital Weather questions why Reagan National Airport is D.C.’s official weather observation post and gives some suggestions for a new location in the district. We say is should be someplace on 24th Street NW.
House Explodes. A family in District Heights says that repairmen had been out numerous times to attend to a persistent gas leak prior to the residence’s explosion on Monday. According to the Post, the neighborhood has seen quite a few gas leaks.
Since mid-February, the company has received 260 calls from people who smelled gas in the District Heights neighborhood, which resulted in 100 service orders … In contrast, the average number of calls in a neighborhood that size is about 85 ….
Happy Cousins: Two first cousins denied a marriage license in Pennsylvania were married in Maryland. In an article in part fused from wire services, the W.Times reports that “Twenty-six states and the District allow such weddings.” That’s another fun fact we were unaware of. And proponents of close-cousin marriage even have a website.
Briefly Noted: U.S. Army may sponsor Nationals … D.C. hosting open house on future of wholesale market area near Florida Avenue in Northeast … D.C. teachers readying for new round of layoffs …
