• This afternoon, Ricardo Walters — Harriette’s nephew — was the first person to be sentenced in the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue scandal. Walters, who was responsible for depositing forged checks which totalled about $1.2 million, will spend the next 6 ½ years in prison. [AP via WTOP]
• A new college football bowl game, and the first D.C. will ever host — aptly titled the Congressional Bowl — will pit the ninth-placed ACC team versus Navy (assuming both are bowl eligible), December 20th at Nationals Park. [WaPo]
• What’s the best place to grab a half-decent, affordable meal in Mount Pleasant? (Additionally: according to the interwebs, it soon could be McDonald’s.) [City Desk]
• Could the D.C. United — Houston Dynamo match possibly be postponed for the third time in as many tries? (Even if the game is played, watery beer is almost a certainty at RFK this evening.) [Capital Weather Gang]
• With the Redskins holding workouts, it can only mean one thing: the Fred Smoot nickname train is back on the tracks. [D.C. Sports Bog]
• Unfortunately, the D.C. summer youth jobs program isn’t quite living up to it’s goals. [WaPo]

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