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- Certainly the most delicious news of the day: the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has made a huge comeback, according to the Baltimore Sun. More for me to eat!
- The District of Columbia is now in the hospital business, the Washington Business Journal reports. Specialty Hospitals of America LLC, after defaulting on its loans, has been forced out as owner of United Medical Center. The city takeover comes less than three years after Specialty was handed the keys to the struggling former Greater Southeast Community Hospital.
- Former Tony Williams chief of staff Kelvin Robinson has announced he is running for an at-large D.C. Council seat, via D.C. Wire. Robinson joins an already crowded race that includes incumbent Phil Mendelson and challenger Clark Ray.
- You had to see this coming: Metro Transit Police Chief Jeri Lee has gone ahead and apologized for including “large lips” in a memo that contained a list of the kind of physical descriptors officers should use when asking victims about their assailants. The Examiner, which first reported on the mini-controversy, leaves the best bit at the bottom: ‘In the apology memo, Lee said that the Metro Transit Police had recently closed several cases in which the victim described the suspect as having “freakishly large lips,” he wrote. A person was arrested “based upon this description,” he added.’
- Boston University intern housing moving into Woodley Park, DCmud reports.
- Unsuck Metro DC shares video depicting the strange joy to be found inside the space-aged public bathroom at the Huntington Metro station.
