- WTOP was apparently trying as hard as it could to gross us out today, featuring stories about poop on shopping cart handles and the “fallacies” of the five-second rule.
- Remember yesterday’s reports that big teacher and staff layoffs were coming to D.C. Public Schools? It sounds like yesterday’s positive budget news has tempered those plans a bit, according to comments made by interim Chancellor Kaya Henderson. In other news, enrollment in D.C. public schools went up two percent this year — it’s the system’s first increase in students since 1969.
- I wonder which hurts more, that Dan Snyder sued Dave McKenna’s employer because of something he wrote, or that Sidwell Friends named an evil character after the writer because of a piece he wrote on the school’s inept football team. Toss-up, I guess.
- D.C. property assessments may have risen slightly on the whole, but the geographic disparity is still staggering.
- After reviewing security footage, the District’s Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration concludes that it doesn’t need to take any further action in the stabbing incident involving Redskins player Brandon Banks outside The Park at Fourteenth last month.
- Speaking of ABRA, take note: the agency is closing early on Friday and taking Monday off so they can move to their new digs inside the Reeves Center.
- More Harvard-based commentary on our fair District! This time, about the role Georgetown students play in local government.
- ReadySetDC has some sparkly new digs.
- So did any of you see Atlas Shrugged filming around town today?
- For the days when you think your boss couldn’t get any worse.
- D.C. had 25 square feet of LEED certified space per person last year.
- Yeah, kids, don’t throw things at the Guardian Angels — they can get away with detaining you, after all.
- The Obamas (okay, the White House chefs, if you want to get all technical about it) brew their own beer!
