Hey there, Washington. How was your weekend? Ours was OK. Yeah, just OK. Oh sure, we’re fine. We guess we’re just a little troubled by some of today’s headlines. As if the looming Heat Emergency, which has given us a Code Orange Air Quality day today and will place the heat index close to 110 through much of the week, wasn’t disturbing enough, we alse read in the Examiner that the growth of online news readers nationwide has plateaued. According to a study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, about three in 10 adults, or 31 percent, regularly read news online, which is roughly the same as two years ago. Wait a minute. DCist began almost exactly 2 years ago. Suddenly it all makes sense! DCist is such a force to be reckoned with in the online news community, we’ve actually swallowed all of the growth of the Internet over the last 2 years. Who would have thought? Well this changes everything. Here’s a special shoutout to all of our loyal readers who made this day possible.
New Curfew Begins: The new 10 p.m. curfew for juveniles aged 16 and younger takes effect tonight. Kids accompanied by an adult or on their way to or from work are exempt from the rule, and teens can also feel free to sit on their own front porches or stoops to pass the time. The measure was put in place as part of legislation associated with the Crime Emergency declared by Police Chief Ramsey earlier this month. We imagine many teens are pretty bummed that their late summer nights out are coming to an abrupt end. Then again, odds are good most of the city’s 16-year-olds, forced to hang out in their bedrooms on a Friday night, can probably find something to do to pass the time. Not that we’re condoning that sort of behavior.
Groundbreaking on Georgia Avenue: D.C. government officials will be on hand to break ground at a new, $60 million mixed-use development above the Georgia Ave./Petworth Metro station. The project, called Park Place, aims to do for Petworth what other Green Line redevelopment projects by Donatelli Development, at U Street and Columbia Heights metro stations, have done for those areas. Can one condo development turn Petworth into the next up-and-coming neighborhood? DCist will be bringing you round-the-clock team coverage.
Briefly Noted: PG County man charged with lighting his girlfriend on fire … Police Inspector asks forgiveness for racial remark … Marion Barry absent from an event honoring former mayors of D.C. … murder total for the month reaches 21.
This Day in DCist: In 2004 we helped fan the fires of rage over the arrest and detention of a woman for eating some candy on her way into a Metro station.
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