- The deadline for Mayoral and D.C. Council candidates to file their August finance reports is at midnight. Some reports are already filing in. Meanwhile, Vince Gray is offering a “limited edition” shirt to those who donate $50 or more to his campaign — before you laugh, consider that Gray has actually raised more funds than Fenty over the last three months.
- ARLnow reports that police investigated a possible hit-and-run car accident involving a Metrobus in Ballston this afternoon. TBD adds that a WMATA spokesperson said that the driver of the bus was now on leave pending results of an investigation.
- Today marks the 164th birthday of the Smithsonian Institution.
- DDOT plans to make turning right on red at the intersection of M Street and First Street SE illegal, after two U.S. Department of Transportation employees have been hit, one fatally, near the intersection recently.
- D.C.’s police union has filed suit against Mayor Adrian Fenty and the city regarding an unfulfilled Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents about Peaceaholics.
- Oh, and speaking of Peaceaholics: nothing
— I repeat, nothing — can prepare you for the terror of Ron Moten’s Gray-cula.
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