- Boy, Ken Cuccinelli really needs to work on his proofreading.
- Deadspin’s Luke O’Brien goes medieval on Redskins PR man Tony Wyllie. In related Redskins news, former running back Willie Parker told a Pittsburgh radio station that the team wasn’t “about football, they were about partying and stuff.”
- Who Murdered Robert Wone? takes an open house tour of the Dupont Circle home where Wone died in 2006: “If the walls could talk, we thought, because the defendants so far have refused to.”
- The District’s Office of Planning is testing a pilot program which would give money to residents for purchasing homes close to their offices. (Wait — are bloggers eligible?) As Lydia DePillis notes, though, bribing people doesn’t seem like the best way to go about encouraging smart growth.
- David Alpert makes the compelling argument that the way Washington’s government gets input from its citizens could use some improvement.
- BeyondDC kindly reminds The Examiner that success of the bag tax isn’t solely based on revenue collection.
- Remember the 19-year-old that broke into Marc Fisher’s house and then posted a photo of himself on Fisher’s son’s Facebook page? He was sentenced to 44 months in prison today.
- It appears as if some Metro employees are using handicapped placards to freely park for hours on busy 14th Street NW.
- A messy situation for Jeffrey McInnis, the director of detained services at the city’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, whose wife said he threatened to kill her and “severely punched me in the head and all over my body,” before recanting those allegations. Meanwhile, the Council is planning on looking into leadership issues at the agency.
- Greyhound is getting into the discount express bus game, and will offer a new route between Philadelphia and D.C.
- A couple finds a $20,000 engagement ring in a Target parking lot and get a $300 reward for returning it to the owners, who had actually insured the ring for $22,000. Fair?
Photo by Bogotron.
