Good morning, Washington. Did you catch Hillary’s speech last night? If you didn’t, spoiler alert!: she did not, in fact, encourage her imaginary armies of PUMA dead-enders to tear the Democratic Party to tiny, bloody shreds. During their post-speech analyses, cable news’ legions of seemingly astonished commentators were able to hide their disappointment at this relatively unexciting development, but just barely.

Bay Bridge Traffic About to Get Worse: The Post has bad news for those of you headed to the beach this holiday weekend. Maryland transit officials have been evaluating the sidewalls of the Bay Bridge after August 10th’s fatal accident, which ended with a tractor trailer plunging through the wall and into the water below, and they haven’t liked what they’ve found. Apparently some of the reinforcing steel inside the sidewalls has rusted, and although this probably played no role in the accident it still needs to be fixed. As a result one lane of the eastbound span will be closed and the speed limit of the other lane reduced for the next ten weeks. Major delays are expected.

More Cuts From Summer Jobs Payroll: Two thousand more ineligible names have been removed from the District’s summer youth job program, NBC4 reports. Throughout the summer the program has been plagued by cost overruns born of mismanagement. So although Mayor Fenty shrugged off these latest corrections as a normal part of the government payroll process, they’ll no doubt be brought up during September’s council hearing about where the jobs program went awry.

Surprise! More D.C. Government Tax Fraud: Jacqueline Wright has pleaded guilty to using her position in the D.C. tax office to create $184,000 worth of fake refund checks for her boyfriend, as WJLA reports. This apparently has nothing to do with the Harriette Walters tax scandal.

Briefly Noted: There was a robbery-related shooting two blocks east of Thomas Circle last night… Ballou put on lockdown for half-hour after teen is shot in knee near school… Dog attacks two children, one woman at Boys and Girls Club… More sex charges filed against Rockville soccer coach… Crime up 12% in Fairfax… Police release surveillance video of suspect in fatal shooting of 15 year-old boy… Md. delegate at DNC suffers stroke… Loudoun is now the nation’s wealthiest county…

This Day In DCist: One year ago we spotted the mayor’s impressive Blackberry collection.

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