- No shocker here: people in Ward 8, who preferred Vince Gray by a very wide margin in September, are banking on him to bring economic development to the ward, reports the Post. Includes this priceless quote from ANC Commissioner and epithet-launcher Mary Cuthbert: “And we don’t need no bicycle lanes.”
- Dave Jamieson ably takes down the Examiner’s fairly ridiculous article about businesspeople who don’t approve of the 15th Street bike lane.
- The Cereal Bowl — the Cleveland Park restaurant which served really expensive bowls of cereal — may be gone, but Missy Frederick reports that they plan on being back in 2011.
- Lydia DePillis has some good stuff on the tenuous tightrope Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser must walk between people who want Walmart, and those who don’t.
- Capital Bikeshare earns some plaudits as one of The City Fix’s best new transit systems of the year.
- D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells Mike DeBonis that Washington better get ready to fight once the new Republican majority arrives in town.
- Friend of DCist Jaime Fearer has this piece at Greater Greater Washington on what the smart growth set should expect with Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. chairing the Council’s Committee on Economic Development.
- Washington, D.C. isn’t the only major city struggling to balance its budget, reports the Washington Times.
- Here, read what everyone else on the Internet is reading today: TBD’s collection of the best FishbowlDC Twitter spats of the year.
- Why yes, working in a Washington office during the week between Christmas and New Year’s can be rather tedious!
Photo by Matt.Dunn.
