- Tomorrow is budget gap throwdown day at the Wilson Building, as Martin pointed out this afternoon. Details continue to leak out this evening, though — Tim Craig has it on good authority that Tommy Wells (Ward 6), Michael A. Brown (At-Large) and Jim Graham (Ward 1) will push for a tax increase when the budget comes to a vote tomorrow. Of course, everyone is still wondering why we don’t know what’s in or out in Gray’s budget, which appears to tread on the back of the Mayor-elect’s campaign promise of increased transparency. Freeman Klopott reports this afternoon that a Gray spokesperson said televised budget discussions were “always tentative,” despite Gray having promised he’d televise the entirety of the gap-closing process on Channel 13 last month.
- A group of residents attempting to prevent the city from cutting down two trees at Watkins Recreation Center on the 1200 block of E Street SE agreed to meet with the Department of Parks and Recreation about getting a temporary reprieve; five minutes after they left the trees to speak with officials, DPR workers started cutting the tree down. So much for diplomacy, I suppose.
- And Now, Anacostia has good news for housing diversity in Historic Anacostia.
- Rumors are swirling that emergency legislation to cap the number of food trucks in Washington could be considered by the Council in the near future.
- Plans to build a boutique hotel in Adams Morgan have been resurrected after the Council reconsidered their choice to table a sizable tax abatement for the project.
- A student at J. Frank Dent Elementary School in Prince George’s County died today after the result of an accident which occurred on school property.
- D.C.: now with more Facebook!
- President Obama will choose from nine people to fill three judge vacancies on the D.C. Superior Court.
- If you see Air Force jets flying over D.C. tonight, don’t freak out — it’s just a training exercise.
- Get ready to fire up the DVR/coffee pot: the Dismemberment Plan will perform on the Jimmy Fallon Show on January 20.
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