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- Over at City Desk, Jason Cherkis visits D.C. General, which is now the city’s biggest shelter for homeless families. What he found is not pretty, “a near chaotic place overcrowded with families and their belongings spilling from trash bags. One described some of the private rooms as replete with trash and clothes, and pot being smoked at the building’s entrance. Rainda Brown, 34, complains about the mold in the stairwell, and says that the heat does not work in the private room she shares with her daughter. They’ve had to double up on blankets at night.”
- Vox Populi covers Mayor Fenty’s presser on the city’s successful (after a fashion) attempt to shut down late night carryout Philly Pizza in Georgetown. …'”his podium positioned near where tipsy freshman used to sit down to enjoy their pizza with ranch, Fenty congratulated ANC Commissioners Bill Starrels and Ed Solomon for their work to “shut down a nuisance business … causing havoc in the community.”‘
- Via the Washington Business Journal, Postmaster General John Potter told Bloomberg Radio today that having mail delivered only three days a week, as some consultants had suggested, was out of the question.
- The Atlantic’s Joshua Green finds evidence that Eric Massa has a history of “unwanted advances” going back to his days in the Navy. Two words you never wanted to see side by side but will nevertheless not be able to erase from your mind: “Massa Massages.”
- Tommy Wells tweets that an ALDI grocery store will be moving into the Hechinger Mall on Benning Road NE by November.
- Weird random crime in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, as a woman unknown to her assailants allegedly tried to snatch and grab two children from a stroller Monday evening, the Post reports. The suspect was arrested a short time later.
