- Mayor Vince Gray’s apparently going to announce his choice for permanent DDOT Director tomorrow — Gray has interviewed six candidates for the job, but the safe money appears to be on Terry Bellamy, who’s had the job on an interim basis since Gray took office.
- Speaking of Gray, his appearance on WTOP this morning was a real downer — the Mayor said that he’s thinking about raising taxi rates, and basically admitted that he’d let D.C. United relocate to Baltimore.
- The owners of Ebenezers Coffeeshop, National Community Church, has big plans for the Meader Theater on Barracks Row.
- Alan Suderman reports that the feds are taking the Sulaimon Brown investigation seriously.
- The Purple Line suffers another setback, now looks like it won’t get under construction until 2015.
- The District and friends are going to spend billions (that’s with a “b”) on upgrades to its sewers over the next few years, including a new rainwater “pipe as wide as a Metro tunnel about 100 feet underground from Nationals Park to the wastewater plant.”
- The first public hearing about planned cuts to Metro service in fiscal year 2012 was held last night. (People don’t like the cuts to bus and weekend rail service, natch.)
- Senator Orrin Hatch called the District’s roads “a doggone mess.”
- A Calvert County man, tired of skateboarders loitering in his neighborhood, sprayed one down with pepper spray last night, then fired off a round from his shotgun, striking one of them in the leg.
- “Washington DC is a city full of young, neatly dressed people who actuate their ambition through deference,” says a reporter whose middle name is “8”.
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