- Washingtonian was forced to retract an entire article which boldly proclaimed “driving to be the cheaper option” over Metrorail after nearly everyone who read it pointed out an extra cost of driving or an extra benefit of Metroing which Rodger Nayak failed to include in his calculations.
- Penn Quarter Living stops by the old, beloved Waffle Shop, which has been reduced to nothing but a W, a S and a storefront for some cheap souvenirs. Sad.
- Metrobus driver Venton Mickens, who was accused and charged with assaulting a customer on June 18, has been handed a five-day suspension without pay.
- “Inspectors didn’t find snakes on planes, but there were roaches, flies and mice at some of the catering facilities that provide the food the airlines serve to their passengers,” reports WTOP. The real question: who is actually ordering meals on domestic flights anymore?
- Arlington County: there’s money there.
- The Examiner’s Kytja Weir shares the story of Metro trying to get rid of a house they’ve owned in Fairfax since 1974. The best part of the story is that WMATA has been renting the place out for years; now, I’ve had some bad landlords in the past, but I can only imagine what its like to have Metro be responsible for fixing my plumbing or whatever.
- Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander wonders “How much Salahi news is too much?” — then reports that the famous-for-being-famous Salahis have been “written about in more than 110 Post stories or columns” this year. I guess he answered his own question, then.
- George Washington’s rye whiskey: go ahead, try and name me a more patriotic way to drown your sorrows.
Photo by melissa.suzanne.
