In case you didn’t get a chance to watch it live (or even if you did), President Obama’s speech at last night’s memorial service for the victims of the Tucson shooting tragedy was really something.
It was Metro board meeting day! The highlights: General Manager Richard Sarles $1.4 billion FY2012 budget proposal doesn’t include service cuts or fare increases, but does include proposals to consider selling station naming rights and keeping one public pay phone in each station for emergencies.
It appears as if Jeff Black’s planned seafood joint at 1612 14th Street NW — which has been held up by months of neighborhood wrangling — is all set to go: all protests lodged against the restaurant with D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control board have been withdrawn.
The Post gets their hands on some documents outlining who paid what to support Vince Gray’s inaugural ball — on the list is Pepco, Howard University, Georgetown University and Safeway. Gray’s transition team will continue to fundraise for another 30 days, though, since they ended up about $170,000 short of the $900,000 bill for the event.
Frederick was the site of a disturbing shooting incident this morning, in which a 26-year-old man shot his 50-year-old mother and 18-year-old sister before killing himself.
