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Really, guys, really? Not only is the District still in the midst of an economic slump that has seen development slow substantially, but we’re all still smarting over the public investment that went into building a new stadium for the Nats. Is it really time to float the idea of bringing the Redskins back to the District? For Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), it sure is. According to NBC4, Fenty and Evans are both still looking to lure the football franchise back to D.C., with hopes of seeing a 110,000-seat domed stadium rise where RFK now sits. (Given how ruthless a business man Redskins owner Dan Snyder is, we should only tremble at the thought of the concessions he would try and extract from the city.) I’ll be the first one to throw this out there — after all the shilling that Evans did to get city money for the baseball stadium and the new convention center hotel, there should be a mandatory year-long cooling-off period before he’s allowed to propose any projects of questionable value that would be funded with public resources. Just sayin’.

Barry Ex-Wife Evicted from Rec Center: Former D.C. First Lady Cora Masters-Barry was recently told she was being evicted from a Southeast rec center she helped found, writes WJLA. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s office apparently gave Masters-Barry and her staff 30 days to vacate the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center, which is run in conjunction with the D.C. Recreation Department and offers tennis lessons and reading classes to inner-city youth. Attorney General Peter Nickles claims that Masters-Barry’s corporate charter was revoked three years ago, a claim she refutes.

Speeds and Tickets Drop in Rockville: WTOP reports that speed cameras installed in Rockville over the last two years have created safety zones, or areas around the cameras where drivers slow down as much as 12 percent to avoid getting a ticket. According to police, the number of accidents in those zones has fallen 35 percent. Additionally, the number of tickets generated a month has fallen from a high of 15,000 in October 2007 to around 4,000 in April 2009.

Deeds Supports Money for Roads, But Doesn’t Say From Where: Jeez. Talk about a non-committal answer. The Washington Times reports that Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds has said that more money needs to be spent on the state’s roads, but refuses to say where the money should come from. Virginia has $100 billion in pending road projects, but state officials run and hide at the mere mention of possibly raising taxes to fund the construction and repair projects. Republican opponent Robert McDonnell has proposed selling state liquor stores, putting tolls on stretches of I-95 and diverting portions of the sales tax to the projects. Deeds has said this would take money from education.

Briefly Noted: Pedestrian struck and killed in Southeast … Michael Phelps involved in minor car accident … Exploding mailbox in Northeast being investigated.

This Day in DCist On this day in 2008, we offered advice on how to deal with landlord troubles and D.C. saw its first federally licensed gun dealer. In 2007, a D.C. chef won Hell’s Kitchen and we were in the midst of the infamous Pearson pants lawsuit.