Brown Not Out: Well, we’re a little red-faced today. Yesterday we guessed that mayoral longshot Michael Brown was bowing out of the race. He did, after all, send us an email in which he announced that a press conference held yesterday would include “major announcement regarding his plans for the future.” Coupled with his fast-shrinking campaign finance account, we thought, “This guy is toast.” How wrong we were. Brown didn’t duck out of the race. Quite the contrary — he reminded District voters he’s still around, and did so by promising to dump the new stadium along South Capitol Street if elected, or so reports the Examiner. We were always skeptical about the wisdom of financing a new stadium, but now that the land has been cleared, construction has begun, and the team sold, we’re going to have to see this one through. There is obviously some residual anger among voters concerning how much the stadium will cost, but is it enough to decide who they vote for? Brown sure hopes so.

Post Rolls Out Endorsements: The Post has started throwing its substantial weight around — the endorsements have appeared. Earlier this week they picked Councilmember Jim Graham for the Ward 1 seat he currently occupies and GW law professor Mary Cheh for the hotly-contested Ward 3 seat. Today they picked Harry Thomas Jr. for Ward 5 and Tommy Wells for Ward 6. That leaves the city-wide seats to be decided — Kathy Patterson vs. Vincent Gray for D.C. Council chair; A. Scott Bolden vs. Phil Mendelson for an At-Large seat; and, for the big cheese, Adrian Fenty, Linda Cropp, or Marie Johns for mayor (those are the names that have been floated by the Posties, or so we’ve heard). And while we don’t know who the Post will pick for mayor, we do know who Metro columnist Marc Fisher likes — Fenty.