Good morning, Washington. The District’s controversial checkpoint plan came before a judge for the first time on Wednesday. The Examiner explains that U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said he likely would not order an injunction to stop the roadblocks since the city has not put up another once since the first one in Trinidad. But the judge did say that setting up any other “neighborhood safety zones” while the brought against lawsuit is still before his court would be a bad decision. The Post’s story on the same hearing paints this early non-decision on the part of Judge Leon as a minor victory for the District.

Gandhi Warns About Borrowing: D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi has sent around one of his standard letters warning District government officials to be fiscally responsible. The Post sums up by concluding that Gandhi’s advice could limit the city’s ability to pay for some of the major redevelopment projects currently on the table along the Southwest waterfront and at Poplar Point. Of course, plans for a soccer stadium at Poplar Point haven’t looked likely for a while now anyway.

Sad Situation in Home of Dead 6-month-old: The Post’s Nikita Stewart talked with the aunt of the mother of the 6-month-old boy who recently died before a social worker was able to see him. The picture she paints is of an overwhelmed 25-year-old mother who needed help trying to raise 4 young children in a small apartment in Trinidad.

Briefly Noted: Whitman-Walker sells administrative offices … Va. toddler dies after father leaves him inside hot SUV all day … Jury convicts District Heights man of murder.

This Day in DCist: Last year, D.C. Council member Jim Graham introduced a bill that would ban fireworks, which of course eventually failed, and the year before that, we spotted some pedicabs in the District.

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