Good morning, Washington. Get your return filed? Well, good. Hopefully your tax bill wasn’t too enormous. And if you still have some cash lying around, perhaps you’d like to spend it on a tiny piece of Popemania? If so, today offers two new options: there are of course t-shirts, coffee mugs and other pope swag; or you could eat like a pontiff at Cafe Milano, official birthday meal supplier to the Vatican. Personally, we’re hoping some of the vendors outside the stadium are selling miters covered with blinking LEDs.

Virginia, Maryland Cut Crab Harvest: Yesterday governors Tim Kaine and Martin O’Malley announced substantial reductions in the number of crabs that fishermen will be permitted to remove from the Chespeake Bay. The AP (via WTOP) has the details; the Post provides more context. In short: there are just too many fishermen for crab populations to be maintained. As a result, female crab harvests will be reduced by a third. Subsidies will be offered to help affected crabbers, but the specifics haven’t yet been worked out.

Jefferson Scholar Unimpressed With Dancers: Today the Post picks up the story of the arrest made over the weekend at the Jefferson Memorial. As we reported on Monday, a group of people assembled at the memorial on Saturday night and danced silently in celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. One of the revelers was arrested by the Park Police. The Post doesn’t add much to this account other than a higher profile and a few choice quotes from the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor Peter Onuf, who doesn’t think T.J. would have sided with the dancers.

Briefly Noted: Men robbed and stabbed, one fatally, while riding ATVs in Prince George’s County last night… Gaithersburg woman wins Pilsbury Bake-Off… Montgomery County scraps pope-welcoming message on buses; also, county considering energy tax… Double shooting in Northeast…

This Day In DCist: Today is the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings.

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