Today will be mostly sunny in the morning and become partly cloudy later with a chance of rain late. Temps will be slighly cooler with highs in the mid 50s. The photo of John Edwards is from his speech at American University on Sunday – see the rest of the set by AU student Greg Wasserstrom.
Got books?: The D.C. Public Library’s collection is the smallest it’s been in a decade, or 2.56 million volumes in 2004, after an aggressive program to thin the collection from “misleading, ugly, superseded, or trivial” books and a flat budget to purchase new books. Luckily the D.C. Library Renaissance Project acknowledges the library is no longer “basically seen as a cow destined for the slaughterhouse.”
Traffic Bribery: D.C.’s former “traffic tzar” Wilhelm DerMinassian has been charged with accepting $20,000 in payoffs by a New York company seeking contracts with the city. The company also paid for personal hotel expenses and repairs to his car.
BWI Renamed: At the end of the legislative session in Maryland yesterday, lawmakers adopted a law adding “Thurgood Marshall” to the name of the Baltimore Washington International Airport.
Briefly Noted: See the Post’s write-up about yesterday’s Capitol Hill bomb scare … The W. Times says the tourists are back … John Windmueller weighs in on Blogorama: “if Libertarians and right wingers are your thing, it rocked” … Metro prepares for the Nationals despite disagreement over pay …
