Today will be partly sunny with a 50% chance of rain from scattered showers towards the afternoon, and highs in the lower 60s. This photo was posted on Flickr by Jennifer Snyder

Developer Undeterred by NIMBY Lawmaker: Despite the threats by a Virginia lawmaker to attempt to block a development near the Vienna Metro, today the company said his proposal to force WMATA to withhold a key parcel of land “dented the car and made it ugly — but didn’t total it,” the Post reports.

Mara Salvatrucha Uncovered: The Post reports today on details about the MS-13 gang uncovered in the trial for the murder of 17-year-old Brenda Paz reveal the gang was composed of a group of teens “not much different from other adolescents” that was not involved in organized drug dealing or robbery, that resorted to “petty theft and begging for their sustenance.”

Briefly Noted: Parents barred from Sex EdTreasury ducks arrive … Historian Zinn at Politics and Prose tonight … Living wage campaign at Howard heating upmore chatter on tearing down the Whitehurst …