So suddenly it’s chilly? Yesterday we were all sweaty messes, but today, with highs predicted to stay in the 60s, we’re wearing sweaters. All this temperature-related confusion has led us to look longingly at the Southwest Airlines web site, since the airline finally began service from Dulles this morning. Cheap flights to Vegas are looking pretty sweet. And while we’re of course very sad to be reminded of the demise of our hometown airline, we take some comfort knowing that the airline that replaced it actually trains its flight attendants be snarky. Who needs an assigned seat when you’ve got that much sass on your hands?
‘Intersex’ Fish Problem Given ‘an Eight’ by EPA: While being grilled by a panel of Maryland and Virginia legislators in those hearings on the Hill we told you about yesterday, a water quality official from the EPA, Benjamin H. Grumbles (we swear, we didn’t make that up), tried to explain that the task of identifying hormone-disrupting chemicals in the Potomac has been much more difficult than the agency imagined. However Grumbles promised that the EPA would do everything it could to accelerate its work, and, apparently, went so far as to give the fish problem “an eight.” Presumably this eight lies on your typical scale of one to ten, one being “someone might have peed in the river” and ten being “water-loving alien creatures have made the Potomac their homebase to mete out the destruction of the human race.”
Rats! They’re Everywhere: NBC4 busts out with a hard-hitting story about the rat epidemic currently plaguing the Glover Park neighborhood of NW Washington. City agencies are threatening to hand out tickets to residents who fail to properly close the lids of their trashcans and trim back brush in order to get a handle on the situation. Amazingly, NBC4 was able to refrain from making jokes about the problem being related to the rear entrance of the Vice Presidential mansion, which is in the heart of the most affected block on Wisconsin Ave. NW.
Briefly Noted: Local synagogue gets $5 million donation … District’s food stamp program shows improvement … Webb is in the money, thanks to Allen … Culpeper County schools closed due to bomb threat … Van Ness Auto Shop closed for violations.
This Day in DCist: In 2005 we interviewed Three Stars alumna Laura Tsaggaris and in 2004 we visited the Old Post Office Pavillion.
Photo by andertho.
