- Mayor Fenty has used a pocket veto to block a bill which would have prohibited campaigns paying people to vote or registering to vote. Fenty was lobbied by — who else — Ron Moten, who has stated the law would have squashed the Fenty camp’s attempts to use go-go concerts to encourage registration. A Gray strategist told the Washington Post, “[w]e knew that [Fenty] had no problem bringing pay-to-play politics to the mayor’s office. Now it appears he has no problem bringing it to the ballot box.”
- Speaking of Fenty, he was in full campaign mode today, getting behind the controls of a excavator at the Southwest Waterfront today, and telling onlookers, “you smell that? That’s the future you smell.”
- Rend Smith has all the details on the latest Andre Chreky sexual harrassment settlement: Chreky, the famous hair stylist, will pay Jennifer Thong $7 million, after being accused of “cornering Thong at work, putting his hand under her skirt, and ripping her underwear off to keep as a ‘souvenir.'”
- For the Wegmans-obsessed: the grocer’s new location in Glenarden, Maryland will open on October 24.
- Infographics that rock: GOOD’s “Driving Is Why You’re Fat.”
- Dave and Buster’s is rumored to be looking at the 41,000-square-foot space that ESPN Zone is vacating today.
- Alan Suderman gets a hold of some unconfirmed poll numbers, which — if they actually pan out as legitimate — are a very good sign for Vince Gray.
- Former WMATA board member and “founding father,” Cleatus E. Barnett, died last week.
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