Good morning, Washington, and congratulations to your Washington Capitals, who defeated the Hurricanes last night by a three-goal margin. The victory completes a dramatic march from the bottom of the NHL to the top of the Southeast Division (or a tie for it, anyway), and makes the team’s first playoff appearance in half a decade seem tantalizingly possible.

Council Acts on Housing, Vendors: The Post reports on yesterday’s D.C. Council activity. First up: the repeal of a law that allowed landlords to ignore the city’s normally-stringent tenant rights laws if the property was vacant. As a Post series earlier this year detailed, some unscrupulous property managers were using this loophole to make sale or conversion to condos easier and cheaper — all they had to do was drive out the tenants first with abysmal conditions and service. Yesterday’s vote aims to make that strategy no longer viable.

The council also took action to provide space for street vendors outside the new baseball stadium. The vendors by RFK had been promised spots, but the city had been slow to actually authorize their presence, which led to some vendors picketing opening day.

More D.C. Audit Delays: A planned audit of the city’s finances has missed a second deadline, according to NBC4 — perhaps understandably, given the complexity of the tax office scandal. The Office of the CFO is now saying that the audit will be ready next week.

Prince William Chairman Criticized: Yesterday the Prince William County Board of Supervisors was supposed to receive a report on the state of the anti-illegal-immigrant crackdown implemented by the county over the past month. Instead Chairman and crackdown-architect Corey Stewart found himself under attack, both for the policy and for his recent criticism of the county’s police chief. NBC4 has the details (and the video). The Post also has coverage of the meeting, with more of a focus on the actual immigration initiative: apparently 41 people have been arrested on immigration charges in the month since its inception — enough that ICE is having trouble keeping up.

Briefly Noted: A suspicious package shut down Key Bridge last night… MPD officer in coma after car crash… Police officer delivers baby in Fairfax… Man shot in head in P.G. County… The beltway near Branch Ave. will be a mess this weekend… No bail for father accused of murdering his three kids…

This Day In DCist: One year ago hometown boy José Andrés was beating smarmy Food Network jock Bobby Flay.

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