- Navigatorgate updates out the wazoo! D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown claims that he has “returned the vehicle to DPW” and plans to reimburse the city for its usage. Many of Brown’s Council colleagues criticize the chair for the whole brouhaha, while Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells has started to dig into vehicles owned and leased by the city. The cherry on top: Brown has produced this laughably poor canned email response, in which he admits “Even if we wasn’t facing tough times this contract is not right.”
- Mayor Vince Gray got pretty testy when WTOP reporters Mark Seagraves and Mark Plotkin pushed him hard on his hiring policies and Brown’s SUV troubles.
- Dave Jamieson presents this pretty great report on Terrence McNatt and the Swisha Splash Boys, the ridiculously-named group responsible for several robberies of iPhones and other smartphones on Metro trains.
- Catherine Fuller was killed in a Northeast D.C. alley in 1984, a crime which sent eight men to jail, seven of which are still serving time. Now, the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project has uncovered new information, undisclosed by prosecutors at the time of the trials, which may exonerate some of those involved. Homicide Watch has more background.
- Who Murdered Robert Wone? looks at the witness lists for the upcoming trial and concludes that attorneys might be looking to make one of the defendant’s sexual histories a focus of the trial.
- Don’t even think about picking up a prostitute at the former Adams Mill Bar & Grill site.
- The Hill Is Home is baffled as to why D.C. schools were on a two-hour delay this morning.
- The Washington Area Music Association’s annual honors, the Wammies, were handed out last weekend – and according to City Paper, they were as exclusive as ever, which is not a good thing.
- D.C.’s bag tax gets some love from The Harvard Crimson. See also: how Bread for the City incentivizes usage of reusable bags among its clients.
- You probably eat a lot more insects than you think you do.
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