Photo by Hoodsweatsh.Good morning, Washington. Did you ride the D1, D6, S2 or S4 buses between Columbia Heights and Georgetown or eat at the Potbelly at 1400 Irving Street NW on February 21? Do you also have fever, red eye, cough and a red blotchy rash? Well, you might want to go see a doctor and get checked out for measles. The D.C. Department of Health says that those were the locations that a 27-year-old woman carrying the infection visited while she was in Washington between flights at Dulles and BWI.
UDC President Takes Lavish Trips: Allen Sessoms makes $295,000 a year as the President of the University of the District of Columbia and also has a car allowance for $60,000. But his taste for expensive travel might be his undoing: WTTG/Fox 5 reports that Sessoms has taken several trips which cost the university thousands of dollars, including a $1,443 flight to Boston, a $2,229 flight to San Antonio, a $7,952 flight to Cairo and a trip for his entire family to Jackson Hole, Wyoming over the Fourth of July. WTTG notes that the paperwork which documents Sessoms’ trips is “a mess” and is “missing receipts and other documentation” — there’s even a trip Sessoms took to the United Kingdom for which the university says that “documentation doesn’t exist.” Sessoms dodged WTTG’s Tisha Thompson, and UDC spokesman Alan Etter said “There are questions in my mind as well. I wish I could give you the answers to those questions. I don’t have the answers to those questions.”
Council Matters: The D.C. Council meets for another legislative meeting this morning — on the schedule are bills concerning funding for education facilities, emergency response and training and the Howard Theatre redevelopment, among others. Yesterday was a busy day at the Wilson Building, too. At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson grilled the Office of the Attorney General about the District’s breathalyzer problems — Deputy Attorney General Robert Hildum told Mendelson that benchmarks for a new program would be finished with ten days, but warned that the urine tests put in place earlier this month probably aren’t going away anytime soon. Also yesterday, the Committee on Public Services and Transportation got an update from DDOT, which included a discussion on limiting cycling on jogging trails and sidewalks.
Don’t Forget: Free pancakes today!
Briefly Noted: Woman killed in overnight crash inside 3rd Street Tunnel…House collapses on 2800 block of 28th Street SE, no injuries reported…Man who cut three people at Embassy of Togo in 2009 sentenced to time served, will likely be deported…Maryland man who threatened to blow up the White House sentenced to five years for falsifying immigration documents…Gray to create new planning and development agency.
This Day in DCist: Last year, venerable weatherman Bob Ryan signed off from NBC4 and the city was preparing for a deluge of gay marriage applications.