- Police Chief Cathy Lanier has been exonerated from accusations that she improperly retaliated against a police officer and violated the Whistleblower Protection Act after Martin Freeman was fired after speaking to the media about MPD’s involvement in private security matters. D.C. Superior Court Judge A. Franklin Burgess stated that “the Court could not punish Lanier because…there was not any evidence to hold her personally responsible.”
- The blogosphere was buzzing today with the realization that Rogue States (you know, the defendant in the Burgers v. Lawyers case) will be relocating to a spot near the intersection of 14th and U Streets. Missy Frederick had the news first over at WBJ.
- A Montgomery County medical examiner ruled that slain American University professor Sue Marcum died as a result of asphyxia and blunt force trauma.
- An update on the Georgetown DMT case: John Perrone and Charles Smith were released into parental custody in Massachusetts; their trial begins on January 24.
- Arlington County passes that tax on certain neighborhoods to pay for infrastructure development. See if you’re going to be paying more here.
- Jonetta Rose Barras dubs the last four years of the D.C. Council as “the era of unscrupulous behavior.” What a time to be alive, eh?
- The Amtrak and MARC stoppage that we noted the other day was actually just another case of people stealing copper wire, says WAMU.
- The big new residential development on 14th Street at the site of the former Whitman-Walker Clinic will be named “District Condominiums.” The creativity must have been really flowing when that decision was made!
- Those are going to be some very wealthy nuns. (Too bad about that whole vow of poverty thing.)
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