- 646 people (and counting!) have signed a petition opposing WMATA’s bag searches in advance of tonight’s Metro’s Riders’ Advisory Council forum. In other Metro news, the agency has reorganized their escalator division.
- The 42 outlines the various categories of D.C.’s bus riders. If you’re an Outside Seater or an Aisle Squatter, you’re already on this editor’s list.
- A compelling journal of what it’s like to work for local non-profit organization Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, passing out condoms and knowledge to prostitutes — and getting hassled by police as you do it.
- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson took a million-dollar loss when he sold his former Woodley Park home in December, reports WBJ. Ouch.
- D.C. Central Kitchen CEO Michael F. Curtin, Jr. tells Tim Carman that he’d like to see more food trucks around town in 2011.
- The meeting during which the D.C. State Democratic Committee will name its appointment to Kwame Brown’s now-vacant at-large Council seat will be moved out of the John A. Wilson Building, after D.C. Republicans complained it was improper to hold a partisan vote in a public space.
- Drivers who head north for the holidays, take note: Delaware has now banned cell phone use without a hands-free device.
- New Columbia Heights makes some interesting post-New Year’s discoveries around the neighborhood: headless roosters, a half-full bottle of Patron and paint-drip graffiti on the sidewalk.
Photo by jimbographer.
