- Don’t forget: tonight’s at-large Council candidate forum at Eastern Market will be co-moderated by DCist’s own Martin Austermuhle. Things get started at 6:30.
- The landlords at Washington Harbour, MRP Real Estate Services, have “hired more than 100 workers who have been onsite 24 hours a day since the flooding incident occurred,” but they won’t talk-slash-aren’t sure why the flood gates that could have prevented massive flooding weren’t installed over the weekend.
- Mike Grass, meanwhile, looks at the bright side of the flooding: the return of greenery to the Potomac’s gorge.
- Something to keep an eye on: DDOT will outline plans this summer for a “streetcar on M Street, an extension of the Benning Road streetcar to the Benning Road Metro station, and combined bus and streetcar transit lanes on K Street from Union Station to Washington Circle,” reports the Examiner.
- Metro and the Nationals are sparring over how much it should cost for the transit agency to provide extra service when baseball games at Nationals Park go into extra innings — given Metro’s budget, board member Tommy Wells wants to charge the Nats $90,000 per hour for the extra service.
- What lockout? Redskins players recently organized an independent minicamp to keep in football shape.
- America’s Most Wanted has picked up the Billy Mitchell murder case.
- Bummer: The two-decade old, cooperative Temple Garden on the site of the (deep breath) Temple of the Supreme Council of the 33rd and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, will close in November due to a remodeling on the property.
- Police making progress, if slowly, in the investigation into the slaying of 16-year-old HD Woodson basketball star Raheem Jackson.
- Who will fill the District’s biggest retail spaces?
- Budget wonks: the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute’s take on Mayor Gray’s 2012 proposal is ready for consumption.
- Walmart could probably afford to raise its minimum wage to $12 an hour.
- Where to get your locally-produced beer.
- Man bites cop.
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