Happy Day-After-Thanksgiving, D.C. Normally we like to get you your headlines in the a.m., so we hope you’ll forgive us for rounding up the news later in the day today — we needed to spend the morning rolling our much fatter selves out of bed and calling our doctors for a new Lipitor prescription. What do you mean, it isn’t necessarily a good idea to put gravy on pumpkin pie?
Breaking News: People are Shopping!: In case you hadn’t heard. If you were brave enough to get out there and try elbowing your way into Black Friday sales today, we salute you. Remember that D.C.’s sales tax holiday begins today and lasts through next Friday.
Gray Calls for Medicaid Investigation: D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray is calling for a review of the city’s troubled Medicaid program, the Examiner reports. Auditors have warned that the city’s Medicaid program is wasting tens of millions of dollars and that D.C. officials routinely violate local and federal rules on open contracting and are losing out on federal payments by not filing the right paperwork.
O Street Market Back to the Drawing Board: Seems like the Examiner is one of the only local media outlets who were at their desks yesterday. They’ve got another story about the outrage in the Shaw community over indefinitely stalled plans to get going on the long-promised O Street Market development. Neighborhood leaders blame the zoning commission for blocking a project six years in the making that everyone in the community is behind except for the commission.
Briefly Noted: Five people killed in family murder-suicide in Montgomery County … Police seek PG County Starbucks robbers … Man dies in Thanksgiving house fire.
This Day in DCist: In 2005 we brought you a special installment of the Search for Bovinity series and in 2004 the Bush twins couldn’t get a table at a Manhattan restaurant.
Photo by Bethany L. King
