- A spokesperson for Mayor Adrian Fenty tells the Washington Times that the $495,000 Fenty set aside for his staff’s separation pay was not redirected from job training programs. The Council still doesn’t like it, though.
- WAMU has this nice piece on Washington’s historical streetcars.
- Lydia DePillis does a bang-up job debunking the study which places D.C. dead last in “business friendliness.”
- Remember that amazing video of a man firing a gun at members of a Florida school board? And specifically, the part of the clip where a woman tried to take the man’s gun away by hitting his hand with her purse? Well, an Alexandria woman purchased the purse at auction for more than $13,000.
- Vince Gray has a new girlfriend. That’s nice.
- An anteater and her pup were released from the National Zoo’s veterinary hospital today — the pup was born on December 7, but had a low body temperature. Both are doing fine now.
- Here’s John Wall and the Wizards playing Santa.
- Disturbing stories from Prince George’s County: WUSA9 has the details on a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run in Capitol Heights and the story of a 12-year-old who was pistol whipped and had his North Face jacket stolen.
- Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington and a native of Pittsburgh, is apparently a Redskins fan “by conversion.” (Obviously, he hasn’t been praying hard enough.)
- Tonight’s entertainment: Capitals/Penguins at the Verizon Center.
Photo by geoff.greene.
