- Ryan Kearney and Matt Yglesias ruminate on the effectiveness of tax incentives for film crews shooting on location in the District.
- WMATA will be performing modernization work on four escalators at the Gallery Place-Chinatown and Union Station Metro stations in January and February, so bring your walking shoes.
- Two juveniles arrested in connection with a string of burglaries in Upper Northwest last week are wanted for a similar series of crimes in Montgomery County; one of the two was a ward of the District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
- Congress Heights on the Rise explains why the Washington Post’s Twitter popularity contest doesn’t really resonate with a large portion of the city.
- ARLnow finds that truck drivers in the county are taking advantage of a loophole which allows them to park in residential neighborhoods, as long as its next to a County-owned building like a school or a police station. Hey, maybe the county board can address it during their January 1 meeting. (Don’t drink too much champagne, board members!)
- WTOP reports that five of the 160 police fatalities across the United States in 2010 occurred in the Washington region.
- I don’t want to alarm anyone, but a conservative group says that George Washington University might have a lot of liberals on campus.
- Metrocurean has the details on Bar Pilar’s planned second-floor expansion. Be sure to enjoy the very hip looking people transposed onto the renderings.
- Here’s what happens when an urbanist blogger with a big imagination gets Legos for Christmas.
Photo by MudflapDC.
