Good morning, Washington. If for some reason you still haven’t caught the D.C. United fever, there’s yet another reason for you to get behind our city’s best professional sports team: last night, Jaime Moreno broke the Major League Soccer scoring record with 109 career goals. As always, our United team of Matt and Kyle will have a full post on the game later on, but here’s the United’s coverage while you wait (in case you didn’t know, D.C. United clobbered the New York Red Bulls 3-1).
School Repairs Going to Cost Us: No one expected all of the repairs needed in D.C. Schools’ facilities were going to be cheap, or easy for that matter, but today we learn that the city will need to spend an additional $120 million for emergency repairs, because the buildings need more work than originally estimated. The money is in addition to the $2.3 billion, 10-year school modernization package passed by the D.C. Council last year, and of course the Janey/Bobb-masterminded $75 million “repair blitz” that’s since been criticized for leaving out important details in work orders.
Greater Southeast Community Hospital Sold: The beleaguered Greater Southeast Community Hospital looks set to be sold for $31.5 million to a company called Specialty Hospitals of America, which has promised to quadruple the number of beds and expand services to create a “medical mall” of care. The deal still needs to be finalized, but given how much the city has been pushing for a change of ownership in the failing facility, the purchasing company’s request for expedited regulatory reviews is likely to be met.
Briefly Noted: Two men found dead in an SUV in Southeast … Lead tests ordered for D.C. playgrounds … Judge takes stand in MPD detectives trial … Mentally ill man who gouged own eyeballs out billed $2.2 million by city.
This Day in DCist: In 2006 we welcomed better WiFi reception at the Smithsonian museums, in 2004 we noted the opening of the Dupont Circle Krispy Kreme.
Photo by Kyle Gustafson
