Hope you didn’t stay up too late debating the President’s speech with friends last night, Washington. We stayed up a bit past our bedtimes ourselves, mostly pondering the rhetorical significance of the difference between the phrases “mistakes were made”, and “where mistakes have been made”. Either way, we take full responsibility for any mistakes that were/have been made in this morning roundup, which was completed with the known unknown of the amount of sleep we had, and not the amount of sleep we wish we had had.
200 Goals for 100 Days: The Post has the details about Mayor Adrian Fenty’s plan to roll out an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days this morning, announcing a laundry list of 200 goals, “which includes narrowly targeted actions, such as funding two new recreation centers, and more sweeping initiatives, such as streamlining the city’s building permits office.” Sounds great of course, if perhaps a little overly optimistic, but at least one council member, who actually spoke to the Post anonymously, accused Fenty of trying to pull off a “public relations” win based on “ideas (that) were already in the pipeline, and Fenty is taking credit for them.”
Derailed 5000 Series Had Recent Maintenence: The Metro car involved in Sunday’s derailment on the Green Line had had maintenence work two days prior to the accident, reports WJLA. The kind of work performed on the car has yet to be released, pending the ongoing investigation. The focus of the NTSB investigation appears to be still focused on the car in question, and not the track switch, which some bloggers have noted appeared to be having problems the night before the accident.
Briefly Noted: 29-year-old woman found murdered in Adams Morgan … Illegal Rock Creek Park home purchased by city to be demolished … Naked construction worker falls to his death at Newseum site … Maryland’s first Muslim lawmaker takes office.
This Day in DCist: Last year we looked at Metro’s bathroom usage policy, and the year before that we highlighted the good work done by homeless-run newspaper Street Sense.
Photo by Night Heron
