Photo by Jim Webb.- As you can see from the image above, work is still being done to clean out the Washington Harbour in Georgetown. Farmers and Fishers, one of the restaurants affected, said via Twitter that they are “working hard to get water out so we can re-open soon”; Tony and Joe’s looks to have taken it the hardest. Jonathan O’Connell, meanwhile, shares a photo of what the Harbour’s flood gates look like when they’re fully installed (compare that to our photos earlier).
- A Virginia grand jury has indicted George Huguely for murder in the May 2010 killing of Yeardley Love.
- Disheartening: “If Mayor Vince Gray’s proposed budget for FY2012 is approved, District organizations serving victims of domestic and sexual abuse may be forced to turn many more victims away. Gray’s budget would shuttle just $5.9 million to the Office of Victims Services. Advocates say that figure would leave District victims’ services with a budget shortfall of at least $3 million.”
- Jaime Fearer wonders whether Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. will use his platform as Chair of the D.C. Council’s Committee on Economic Development to push hard for local businesses.
- Lots of Walmart chatter out there today: those opposed to the chain’s arrival in D.C. want the chain to concede to a number of labor concessions; meanwhile, the Big Blue Box is backtracking on its claims that it’ll “profit share” with its employees.
- Mark your calendars: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library will be closed next Sunday, April 24.
- On the eve of Passover, windows at a Potomac synagogue were shot out with a BB gun.
- Both George Mason and Northern Virginia Community College are eyeing post-Metro Tysons for new campuses.
- You crazy kids and your wacky redistricting ideas!
- The New York Times’ Michael Winerip: Michelle Rhee “is education’s Sarah Palin.” So, there’s that.
- President Obama made $1.7 million last year. (The taxman took $453,770 of that back, though.)
- Say it with me: awwwwwwww.
- “The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers.”
