Good morning, Washington! So c’mon: be honest. Did you bike to work today? With scattered showers predicted across the region, we suppose it’s understandable if you didn’t. We hope you feel at least a little guilty anyway, though — particularly those of us who did end up biking through potential drizzle. We guess we’ll give a pass to Paul Wolfowitz though — even if he did ride his bike to work today, he won’t be for much longer.

Ten Percent of Hydrants Don’t Work: The WaPo devotes front page column inches to micro-local news this morning, as it turns out the fire department’s original estimate of only 50 or so broken hydrants in the District was pretty far off the mark. Instead, inspections has revealed that nearly ten percent of all the city’s fire hydrants aren’t working — more than 900 in total. Inspections of all the city’s hydrants were stepped up after malfunctioning ones stymied efforts to put out the Georgetown Public Library blaze last month. WASA officials are disputing the extent of the problem, claming they have already repaired some of the hydrants identified in the inspections.

Temporary Homes for Eastern Market Vendors Disputed: Looks like the sympathy honeymoon for vendors displaced by the Eastern Market fire is over — at least as far as a handful of neighborhood residents are concerned. A number of homeowners on 8th St. SE are complaining that they weren’t consulted thoroughly about the city’s plans to house the vendors in a temporary structure at Hine Jr. High School, which they say could negatively affect them by creating trash and rodent problems.

Briefly Noted: Doctors charged with sex crimes still see patients in VA, MD … Discovery Communications Inc. to cut 1,000 jobs … District to lease public buildings to charter schools … Amtrak workers rally for new contract.

This Day In DCist: One year ago we fretted over racy pictures of the Catholic U women’s lacrosse team’s party habits. Two years ago we worked on recreating Ray’s spicy cashews.

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