- DCist’s Martin Austermuhle will be live tweeting from the headquarters of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics tonight, so stay tuned for that. If you want to watch national election results roll in, but don’t have access to a television (or a decent bar with a television), Read Write Web has some good options for you.
- This evening, California Tortilla is giving anyone who comes in with an “I Voted” sticker a free taco. (But, psssst…you don’t actually need the sticker to get your free taco.)
- Drama at a Shaw polling place! ANC2C Commissioner Doris Brooks apparently got into a argument with Convention Center Community Association president Martin Moulton regarding controversial activist Leroy Thorpe. Brooks ended up tripping over Moulton’s bicycle.
- The sale of the Washington Times is reportedly a done deal. Politico has the short version of the story, while Moe Tkacik spends a few more words on the subject.
- The District has the highest percentage of same-sex couples in America and the most male same-sex households, though the survey on which those statistics are based was conducted before D.C.’s same sex marriage legislation was enacted. (The standard warning about studies comparing Washington, D.C. to states also applies.)
- Who Murdered Robert Wone?, along with several other media outlets, have filed a motion in opposition to the gag order on proceedings requested by the defense in the Wone civil suit.
- The D.C. tax amnesty program actually managed to meet its goal of recouping more than $20 million in unpaid taxes, despite being way behind that goal in September.
- Capital Bikeshare also had a record day last Saturday, logging 2,343 trips. Meanwhile, more Bikeshare stations are coming to Arlington beginning in April.
- JDLand reports that the Little Red Building at the corner of 2nd and L Streets, previously planned to be a liquor store, has switched gears and will now be a coffee shop and is looking to open in February.
- Alexandria’s new “green” Walmart at 6303 Richmond Highway opened last week. Of course they already have pink Christmas trees for sale; like you even had to ask.
- Tough facts to swallow: It was only a matter of time until the snow plows awoke from their long hibernation.
Photo by shhanalog.
