- Somewhat lost in the shooting shuffle today: a pedestrian was severely injured on the 3400 block of 14th Street NW after being struck by a Metrobus.
- There are plenty of cameras installed near the site where two men were shot in Shaw last Sunday — there just wasn’t one pointed in the direction where the crime actually occurred.
- Just because a building gets LEED-ND certification, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s all that green, reports Lydia DePillis.
- WTOP reports that restoration on the District of Columbia War Memorial is slated to get underway soon. We’ll believe it when we see it — the work was supposed to begin last August.
- H Street streetcar updates! The trolleys won’t be rolling until late 2012, there are still several solicitations that need to be bid, and there’s still no solution to the Union Station link conundrum.
- The White House refused to accept former mayor Sharon Pratt’s letter about voting rights and the “Taxation Without Representation” plates.
- The Constitution Center at 400 7th Street SW, assessed at $648 million, will be put on the market.
- At-large campaign pop quiz: how many errors can you spot in this Informer piece on the race? (Hint: there are several.)
- The Wizards will unveil a new red, white and blue color scheme on May 10.
- Three of the four D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services wards who escaped from a South Carolina treatment facility last night have been found.
- Another round of transportation funding for me and my friends!
- I wonder if calls for a ban on Pabst’s “binge-in-a-can” will prove to be as effective as the ban on Four Loko — that is, not very well.
- The real story here, I’d contend, is that airlines were actually trying to keep baggage fees after losing passengers’ luggage.
- Haven’t been able to log into Foursquare or Reddit today? Blame Virginia.
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