- Eleanor Holmes Norton sure has some creative contribution levels. Who needs to “say yes to statehood” when you can express your desire to “melt down all handguns” for about one-fifth the price?
- The Red Line is single-tracking right now between Dupont Circle and Van Ness.
- The Board of Elections and Ethics is temporarily scrapping an Internet voting trial, reports Mike DeBonis, after several hackers exploited various vulnerabilities.
- Ridership on both Metrorail and Metrobus was way down in July, which was also the first month in which increased fares went into effect. The Examiner reports that Metro officials had expected a drop of about 200,000 bus rides and a slight gain in rail ridership; in fact, bus rides dropped by 1.3 million and rail rides dropped by 300,000 compared to last July.
- An attempted armored car robbery on the 1000 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE was foiled this afternoon after one of the car’s guard shot and wounded the robber mid-crime.
- Only in America: Tim Carman has coverage of the lawsuit in which a D.C. law firm is claiming that “rampant burger fumes” are causing headaches and nausea in its office.
- The thirty-story office building that’s supposed to begin construction in Rosslyn this month still doesn’t have any tenants.
- D.C. United winger/striker Chris Pontius is one of 51 candidates for Cosmopolitan‘s 2010 Bachelor of the Year. You can vote for Pontius here. (It’s refreshing to know that while United’s play this year might not have been pretty, at least one of their players is.)
- Behold, “The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids.”
Photo by MudflapDC.
