- Vince Gray has named his transition team, and it is full of friendly faces for the Mayor-elect. Among the highlights: D.C. Chamber of Commerce CEO Barbara Lang and former George Washington University president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will guide economics, former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and noted policy expert Alice Rivlin will guide fiscal responsibility; and Reuben Charles will run the day-to-day of the transition. Speaking of Charles, Alan Suderman digs into the finances of Gray’s rumored choice for chief of staff and finds that he owes more than $236,000 in back taxes to the state of Illinois.
- It appears as if yesterday’s three-alarm fire inside an apartment building at 1444 Rhode Island Avenue NW was caused by unattended candles. The fire caused $250,000 in damage.
- City Paper editor Michael Schaffer tries to find the silver lining in Jason Chaffetz’s impending rule over the District.
- Nothing says cleanliness like a bunch of garbage pails and refuse littering your public restroom.
- D.C. Water has a whole bunch of projects they are working on that they want you to know about.
- Congratulations to Andy Najar on winning Major League Soccer’s Rookie of the Year award. (Now go get him some support, United.)
- Brilliant satire: Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan as a conflicted teenage girl.
- Add Atlanta to the long list of cities who have a baby panda. (Not that we’re jealous of the lucky bastards or anything.)
- “Police said DiVanna was cursing at adults and children in the Fox Chapel neighborhood, trying to get them to give him candy. He was wearing a diaper at the time of his arrest, police said in a charging statement.”
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