Good morning, Washington. Metro says that delays due to yesterday’s Orange line derailment have been mostly cleared, and that this morning’s commute should have seen minor delays only in the affected area. What was your experience this morning? Did you even get home in the first place? Hopefully a reminder that this should be the last day of the heat wave will cheer up all you Orange liners this morning.

Walters Advised Tax Office Software Policy: The Post has a front page story this morning detailing how alleged tax office scam ringleader Harriette Walters helped play a role in designing the agency’s computer system. Turns out she convinced officials to leave her unit out of the system, which likely aided her in keeping the millions of dollars she was stealing hidden for much longer. The tax office now wants to do away with the $135 million system rather than try to upgrade it. Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi has budgeted $10 million for a search for a new program that can process the city’s income, business and real estate taxes.

Trinidad Checkpoint Intensifies: D.C. police blocked off access to several streets in the Trinidad neighborhood last night in order to force drivers to pass through the new “Neighborhood Safety Zone” checkpoint, reports the Post. The paper described the scene last night as appearing to be a “work in progress,” saying that the number of officers assigned to the checkpoint was insufficient to fully implement the plan. Meanwhile, the Examiner says that officers assigned to the checkpoint have not undergone constitutional training, despite the assurances of interim attorney general Peter Nickles.

Briefly Noted: D.C. not included in FBI crime report due to data issues … Four Prince George’s County teens charged with beating a man to death over a pack of cigarettes and a shoe … Montgomery County police are investigating a sexual assault in Takoma Park … It’s election day in Virginia.

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