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Good morning, Washington. Today’s top puff/cross-promotional item: local diamond merchants Ronnie Mervis and his son Jon have started a petition claiming that they’ll try to buy the Redskins from Dan Snyder if they get the stated support (and email addresses) of 10,000 Redskins fans/diamond-buyers. On the one hand, this is obviously a brazen attempt to take advantage of those of us who lie in the sizable overlap between the “Redskin fan” and “hapless sucker” demographics. On the other hand, there is a certain appeal to the idea of an owner who spends as much time in tunnels deep beneath South Africa as Mervis claims to. Hmm…
Latest on Tuesday Drive-by Shooting: The Post continues to update their story on the aftermath of yesterday’s shooting near D.C.’s easternmost tip, which left two teens dead and three seriously wounded. It sounds like the shooting stemmed from a longstanding inter-neighborhood feud, and like the last three victims are likely to survive. Police are looking for a black SUV with tinted windows, and for any witnesses to the shooting. WJLA reports that the deceased victims have been identified as Davonta Artis and Daquan Tibbs.
Homeless Charities Worry About Funding as Winter Looms: The Post reports on the concerns of a number of area nonprofits that are worried about their ability to continue serving the city’s homeless population in the face of funding cuts. City officials are quoted as expressing some exasperation with the organizations’ call for help, as the city has previously pledged to find beds for all who need them. But it sounds like many of those beds may be in the D.C. General family shelter, a facility dreaded by many of those quoted in the article.
Briefly Noted: Rest easy: the pumpkin harvest is secure… Farmers arrested for planting hemp seeds in front of DEA… STD patients outraged at health department treating them like they have STDs… D.C. expat Happy the Hippo makes his Milwaukee debut… “[V]iewers may notice some awkward cranking and pumping beneath the anchor desk“…
This Day In DCist: One year ago the Wilson Building turned 100.
