Good morning, Washington. After such a long, hot week, that was some beautiful weekend, wasn’t it? And apparently, the beauty of the weekend is spilling out on to Monday morning: Karl Rove, President Bush’s controversial deputy chief of staff and senior political adviser, will resign at the end of August. After he packs up his Palisades home and heads back to the Texas Hill Country, Rove will reportedly leave politics and plans to write a book about the Bush years — do you still get to claim executive privilege when your job involves working in your slippers?

Fenty Finds Funds for Ballpark Art: Mayor Adrian Fenty plans to shift $770,000 from the city’s equipment leasing fund into the budget of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, in order to purchase artwork for the new Nationals stadium. Despite concerns recently about art purchases causing the Council to spend outside the stadium’s $611 million construction cap, city leaders appear now to agree that because the Commission on Arts and Humanities will own the art and it will eventually be moved to another location, the funds need not be counted as part of the cap.

Mixed Water Messages: The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority is warning customers about unsolicited water testing kits that have been showing up on customers’ doorsteps in Northeast, which they say are a scare tactic by a company trying to get people to buy water filtration systems. Meanwhile, that lovely algae smell and taste in the city’s drinking water persists.

Briefly Noted: Southeast man dies after being shot, falling from building … Ramp from I-66 to the Whitehurst Freeway closed today through Aug. 24 … Small piece of commuter jet heading to Dulles falls in Maryland.

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