- Nurses at Washington Hospital Center have voted to go on strike for one day, in protest of the Hospital’s decision to fire several nurses who failed to show up for work back in February. The fired nurses claimed that they could not safely get to work because of the heavy snowfall. The Hospital says that they have a contingency plan in place for whenever the strike goes down.
- ReadysetDC has decided that the city “need[s] a new shirt that represents us,” so they got a whole bunch of artists together to piece together some designs. Some (the one based on a panda) ring truer than others (“Everyone Important Ends Up In DC”? “Politics Are Sexy”?), but one could make the argument that the tourist shirt is hardly the medium for D.C. residents to rally behind. After all, that’s what they wear.
- Donna Watts-Brighthaupt (she of the sole-source contract that got Marion Barry in hot water) claims on Twitter that she was never Barry’s girlfriend.
- A water main break in Georgetown has disrupted water service to about 2,000 customers this afternoon.
- DDOT will be performing some work on the 11th Street Bridge and parts of the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, Interstate 295/DC 295 and other streets starting today and running through August 27.
- Wow, Redskins fans sure are wildly optimistic about the team’s chances this year.
- Who buys truffles at Safeway?
- Most important link of the day: how to make an impostor In-N-Out double-double, animal-style, at home. (Yeah, it’s a lot of work.)
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