Good morning, D.C. If you missed the news breaking yesterday, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had a seizure on Monday while on vacation in Maine. While the cause of the seizure is unknown, doctors examined the Chief Justice and determined there was no cause for concern and that Roberts has already fully recovered. It’s likely Roberts will now be prescribed some form of anti-seizure medication because he had another similar episode 14 years ago, and he may be advised not to drive, to avoid heights and not to swim alone.
Schools Looking Familiarly Grim: The Post brings further word on exactly what kind of state D.C. Schools will be in when they open in just a few weeks: Half of all the schools do not have all their required textbooks and half of the school buildings will not have any air conditioning on the first day of school. At a news conference yesterday, Mayor Adrian Fenty promised that this would be the last year of such textbook debacles and said the city is updating school heating and air-conditioning systems.
Acting UDC President Named: The University of the District of Columbia announced yesterday that it has named Stanley Jackson, the senior vice president of operations and a former deputy D.C. mayor, as acting president. A committee will now begin conducting a national search for a permanent president. Former UDC president William Pollard resigned under pressure from the board of trustees in June.
Briefly Noted: An off-duty D.C. firefighter was shot and carjacked in Northeast … The FBI and the Internal Revenue Service raided the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R) yesterday as part of an investigation of political corruption … Woman manages to buy house with stolen identity.
This Day in DCist: Last year we discovered a free market solution to that summer’s youth curfew, and two years before that Metro was under fire for arresting an EPA scientist for eating a candy bar in a station.
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