- I can say, with all honesty, that a Ron Moten for Council campaign would be as good as it gets for reporters in this town.
- More City Paper defections! Looks like Jason Cherkis is taking his show on the road to the Huffington Post.
- D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan announced today that his office is investigating anticompetition claims lodged against D.C. gas station magnate Eyob “Joe” Mamo. (In a profile of Mamo, the City Paper reported that he owned “nearly half” of the city’s gas pumps.)
- WMATA GM/CEO Richard Sarles isn’t too worried about all the overtime his employees have been logging of late.
- Adrian Fenty snubs Maya Angelou, Vince Gray dethrones Fenty, Angelou snubs Gray. Everything is circular, man.
- It appears as if Cafe Citron has run into some trouble with its liquor license.
- Washington’s anti-Walmart movement got some exposure on Fox News Channel last night.
- DC Metrocentric noticed that the foundation for the massive CityCenter project has already been started, just weeks after groundbreaking.
- A 43-year-old Maryland man was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison for forcing a 12-year-old District girl into prostitution.
- “In a textbook example of the importance of proofreading, a slight anomaly in the listing for the school on Microsoft’s search engine directs Web traffic to pgpcs.org instead of pgcps.org, the county’s schools website. Unfortunately, the first link, beneath the school’s name on the map search result, goes to a pornographic site.”
- LivingSocial has leased an entire building in Penn Quarter. (No word on whether they used an emailed coupon to make the deal.)
- Parking in Bethesda and Silver Spring will now cost you an extra dime per hour.
- No worries, the Wizards’ terrifying mascots are sticking around, despite the new logo and colors.
- I think we’ve all known that it was just a matter of time before Falls Church residents began eating each others’ brains.
- God help us all.
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