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- Forbes says women in D.C. on average make more money than they do anywhere else in the country, which would be nice if this wasn’t one more list that ranks the District of Columbia as it compares to states, instead of cities. But at least this is promising: “On average, women make 80% of men’s earnings, but in D.C. they earn 92.2% as much as their male colleagues.”
- Betsy Rothstein, former gossip writer for The Hill, is moving back to Washington to become the new co-editor of Fishbowl DC.
- Borderstan writes about a daytime robbery at 16th and U Streets, noting that of two suspects who were arrested in the crime, one had been awaiting trial on carjacking charges from Prince George’s County. ‘Call me naive, but I thought carjacking probably got you thrown in jail without bail.’ OK: you’re naive.
- The Other 35 Percent updates on the latest legal wranglings between infamous former ANC 2C commissioner Leroy Thorpe and Convention Center Community Association president Martin Moulton. Among Thorpe’s allegations against Moulton (which have all been dismissed) were that Moulton ‘is “obsessed” with Thorpe,’ ‘approached Thorpe at a community picnic, greeted him, and extended his hand to him for a handshake,’ and that he ‘e-mailed Thorpe asking for a turkey in 2007.’
- The Washington Post has announced it will shutter its bureaus in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles at the end of this year, Michael Calderone reports in Politico.
