Good morning, Washington. Tonight’s the night! The final game in the Caps/Penguins series will be played at the Verizon Center this evening, and if it’s anything like the first six games in the series, it’s going to be pretty exciting. Sadly, my own bandwagon-jumping is going to be foiled by some previously-bought concert tickets. But hopefully those of us who won’t be watching the game can just listen for a celebratory roar emanating from Chinatown. For those of you who are dead-set on seeing it in person, WTOP says that tickets can be found online starting around $140.
New Chesapeake Preservation Initiative Announced: The Feds are trying to help save the bay, the Post reports. Yesterday the EPA announced the first executive order regarding the bay since the 80s. Local authorities will be getting more money and more regulatory support — including federal willingness to make politically unpopular regulation — as they try to clean up the Chesapeake. Some bay advocates are skeptical, though: the Post quotes some as saying that the goals being mulled by the EPA aren’t aggressive enough; and the Examiner’s writeup includes UMD professor Robert Nelson explaining that the EPA can’t regulate agricultural runoff, which is a major source of Chesapeake Bay pollution.
City Backs Out of Deal With Metro: WTOP reports that D.C. is declining to make good on a promise to pay for relocating Metrobuses from a garage in Southeast near the stadium as part of a plan to free the property for redevelopment. Since payments have stopped the city has racked up a $1.2m tab, which it says it will pay by adjusting the sale price of a pending land deal with Metro elsewhere in the city. Metro officials seem displeased with the city’s decision to back out of the Metrobus arrangement.
Arrests for Gang Stabbing Continue to Grow: The number of people implicated in the murder of Dennys Alfredo Guzman-Saenz has now grown to nine, according to WJLA. WTOP has a bit more context, explaining that the accused are members of a gang that considers itself a rival to another one with which Guzman-Saenz was associated (although he was apparently not a member). WJLA also notes that one of the accused men may also be responsible for some additional incidents of knife violence that occurred over the weekend on 14th Street.
Briefly Noted: Body found in Potomac confirmed to be boy who fell into river last month while fishing… Local man among those killed in Iraq base friendly-fire shooting… Virginia officials still don’t know how much private health data was recently stolen by a hacker… Handicap parking placard theft ring broken up… Cocaine cheese!… WTOP is wrapping up its week-long series on sexting (yes, really)…
This Day In DCist: One year ago we chatted with Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver and Jonetta Rose Barras left Kojo Nnamdi’s Politics Hour.
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