Good Morning, Washington. Yes, we too woke up to the rude fact that it’s friggin’ cold again well into April, with no relief in sight through the weekend, and briefly considered giving up this urban life we’d always thought we wanted in favor of opening up a fruit stand in Acapulco. We wouldn’t need much really, just a couple of bathing suits and maybe a blender to occasionally whip up a frosty tropical beverage. Mmm. Luckily, we opened up the Washington Post just in time to see that moving out of D.C. is exactly what the cynical demographers of the world would want, and if we know anything, it’s that demographers cannot be allowed to carry out their sinister plans for world domination. Plus we’d miss you, readers. So we’ll throw on a sweater, again, and get on with our lives. But that doesn’t mean we have to like it.
Va. House, Senate Approve Transit Funding: No doubt our transit guru DCist Colin will have more for you on this later in the day, but the big news out of Virginia is of course that, as the Examiner notes, “the first substantial funding reforms for Virginia’s roads, rails and transit operations in a generation became law Wednesday.” So for now we’ll say way to go, Virginia, for finally getting done over the course of a decade what it takes other states to achieve in a fraction of the time.
Fenty Pledges to Fight AIDS Epidemic: After weeks of vocal criticism from area health groups and activists on his inaction on the District’s enormous AIDS crisis, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced yesterday that he expects to select a new director of the city’s HIV-AIDS agency soon. Fenty also said he is rallying the different city agencies involved in aspects of the epidemic to work together in new ways over the next week. More on Fenty’s announcement from the WaPo.
Briefly Noted: NT2 filming moves to Alexandria … Police investigating large, all-female assault outside 9:30 Club … School takeover critics get into high gear.
This Day in DCist: In 2006 we reported that the Black Cat was thinking of putting up a roof deck in response to the smoking ban, and now we realize we really need to check in with them again to see if they ever actually plan to follow through with it. In 2005 we wondered when, if ever, it’s OK to start wearing white shoes.
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