- Vince Gray held a press conference yesterday, but, as Alan Suderman proves, you didn’t have to be in attendance to know what was said.
- Dr. Gridlock explains how those new, raised SmarTrip readers improve faregate efficiency.
- The CIA is upset after the Associated Press used names in a story about how the agency has promoted agents even after they committed huge errors, like imprisoning the wrong man in Afghanistan for months. The Washington Post’s report on the story did not identify agents.
- Council Chair Kwame Brown is off to Wall Street to defend the city’s credit rating. But before he left, Brown made arrangements for a pro bono financial advisor to help the Council work with the Mayor on the upcoming budget deficit.
- Watch out BitTorrent fans: the U.S. Copyright Group is coming after you.
- Freeman Klopott follows up on his drunk driving/breathalyzer/peeing story, and reports that the D.C. Attorney General’s office is planning on reviving the drunk driving cases they’ve dropped due to faulty breath analysis technology.
- D.C. police are looking for a man who was caught on surveillance cameras while robbing a grocery store on the 1000 block of Brentwood Road NE.
- The hawk which hung out in the Library of Congress for a few days last month has been released back into the wild.
- Concert footage of the Beatles first American concert — held at the old Coliseum in Washington — will be screened at a theater for the first time in 47 years. Too bad the screening’s in Los Angeles.
- Because nothing says “sorry for deceiving you about our meat” like a free taco filled with said meat.
Photo by choofly.
