- Bill Turque has the most extensive profile of interim D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson to date. Turque does his usual comprehensive job, painting Henderson as a “naturally accessible” leader who “often comes with a broad smile and a round of hugs.”
- While he rehabs from Tommy John elbow surgery, Stephen Strasburg has resolved to quit chewing tobacco. Which leads me to wonder: why hasn’t smokeless tobacco been banned by Major League Baseball — especially when, as Adam Kilgore reports, “all tobacco products have been banned in the minor leagues on fields, in clubhouses and during team travel. It’s also banned in college and in every significant amateur association.”
- So basically, if I’m understanding Pepco correctly here, people in Montgomery County should just go ahead and stop assuming that they’ll have electricity until springtime.
- Nice read from Mike DeBonis on the always-looming spectre of the federal control board.
- Michael Neibauer reports on a strange loophole in D.C. law which means former mayor Adrian Fenty has $436,439.53 left in a “citizen-service fund” that he now has to donate to a non-profit.
- Former Indiana Senator Evan Bayh now has a lawyering job in the District.
- Wale’s Twitter account got hacked.
- A profile of our times, courtesy the Wall Street Journal: “Tough economic times have spurred a rash of vending-machine thefts, prompting operators to fight back with sales-tracking devices and automated text-message alerts.”
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