- Happy birthday to Vince Gray (who is 68), Phil Mendelson (58) and Ron Moten (41). Yeah, I’d pay to see that debate.
- About 100 protesters, upset about the dropping of charges against five DC9 employees, marched on the Wilson Building this morning, covering much of the same ground that they did during a rally outside of the temporary closed club a few weeks ago and pressing politicians to address them. In other news, the DC9 website is asking for donations to help defray the cost of the five employees’ legal expenses.
- Today in transition: Mayor-to-be Vince Gray has a new website, while Chairman-to-be Kwame Brown announced his transition team and remained tight-lipped on committee appointments. Meanwhile, Adrian Fenty administration workers were given a tutorial on how to resign.
- New Columbia Heights explains why the corner of 11th and Lamont Streets NW smells so good.
- In case you didn’t realize: gay people also enjoy drinking at bars, flirting, and playing fratty sports around the District.
- Interstate 270, which was previously scheduled to close overnight for sign installation tonight, will close tomorrow night instead.
- Metro will install pay-by-credit card machines at all of its Metrorail parking facilities by next summer.
- D.C. public school security guards will get a pay bump.
- Two men, armed with semiautomatic weapons, stole 100 copies of “Call of Duty: Black Ops” from a GameStop in Bel Air, Maryland last night. Something tells me these guys weren’t just impatient gamers.
- An apple cider recall? Man, that’s depressing.
- Oh, and speaking of depressing — the weather report by Doug Kammerer on NBC4 this evening noted that the sun will set in the District of Columbia before 5 p.m. every day until January 6, 2011.
Photo by Michael S Barnes.
