About as close as many of us will ever get to the inner-workings of the White House is the annual Easter Egg Roll, set to take place this coming Monday. The National Park Service has announced that they will start distributing tickets for the event on Friday night, with more tickets to be given out on Saturday and Monday mornings. From what we hear, they were planning on having a password-protected internet pre-sale, but nixed the idea once they realized we’d probably ruin everyone’s fun by publishing the password ahead of time.

Potential Nats Owner Irks Williams: Like everything else related to the Washington Nationals thus far, the process to finally pick an owner for the team has drawn criticism, this time from D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams. NBC 4 is reporting that three of the original eight bidding groups have emerged as front-runners in the contest to pay $450 million for the team, with the group headed by developer Ted Lerner looking more and more like the potential victor. Williams yesterday expressed concern over the lack of minority participation in the Lerner group, one of the three conditions he would like to see satisfied by the team’s new owner.

District to Replace Douglass Bridge: The District is planning to replace the 56-year-old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge with a new, $300 million alternative that better accentuates the Anacostia River waterfront and serves as a southern gateway into the city, writes the Post. District officials have chosen four possible designs for the new bridge, and will present them to the public on May 4 for a round of public comments. Construction on the new span will begin in 2011 and take two years to complete.

Briefly Noted: Train service between Washington and Florida halted … Williams considering alternatives for new hospital in Southeast … Region’s real estate market is still pretty hot … Crime drops in Prince George’s County.

This Day in DCist: One year ago today we reported on the then new Cleveland Park Men’s Club, Borf roamed the West Coast and rising gas prices forced local cabbies to raise fares.

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