- Hundreds, including most of the Council and the Mayor attended the funeral service for activist and State Board of Education member William Lockridge this morning.
- Marion Barry is very excited about Vince Gray being Mayor, if you couldn’t tell. According to Loose Lips, here’s Barry speaking with fellow Councilmember David Catania during a hearing yesterday morning: “This is a new day in the District of Columbia…The day is over, Mr. Catania, when you’re going to tell the mayor what to do. … Let the executive take the lead.” Then, Barry, who also called Adrian Fenty the “most unaccountable mayor,” ignored Catania banging his gavel to keep talking.
- Unsuck DC Metro publishes an anonymous account about two men who allegedly robbed several people on an Orange Line train at gunpoint; Metro responded today and confirmed the robberies, but noted that the two were caught outside Minnesota Avenue, and that victims did not report the two robbers had used a gun.
- Moratorium: not a word for community leaders to throw around lightly.
- The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute explains why the recently-passed FEED DC Act is a step towards eliminating the city’s food deserts.
- WMATA is suing Aon, alleging that the insurance company didn’t inform the transit agency of an option which would have saved them $9 million after the fatal 2009 Red Line crash.
- That gas leak at the Cato Institute yesterday was apparently due to expansion-related construction at the building.
- Because if the investigation into Team Thomas needed anything, it was definitely the alleged involvement of a strip club owner.
- Jon Fischer reports that Vince Gray told leaders of local arts organizations today that “not everything takes money.” Translation: you’re on your own, folks!
- Happy 22nd birthday, D.C. Central Kitchen.
- Don’t already get your D.C. Water bill electronically? Here, go save five bucks.
Photo by megan.greeley.
