- Mayor Vince Gray says that he won’t veto a budget without an increase in income taxes on residents making more than $200,000 — of course, since Council Chair Kwame Brown hasn’t released his counter-proposal, we can’t really be totally sure what Gray is saying that he won’t be vetoing.
- Justin Navarro, who killed 31-year-old Kevin Massey by stabbing him “18 to 20” times with a butcher knife in 2009, was sentenced to 40 years in prison today. Massey was gay and prosecutors had alleged that Navarro killed Massey to “quell rumors about his sexuality,” but a jury did not find beyond a reasonable doubt that the action was a hate crime.
- Did you know that Rainn Wilson is a member of the Baha’i faith? No? (That’s okay, I didn’t either until I read this interview in Esquire a couple months back.) If you don’t believe me, you can hear him tell you all about the religion at American tonight.
- A 15-year-old who shot one D.C. police officer three times and grazed another on Saturday will be held at a juvenile detention center for 24 hours for psychological testing.
- Gross: bedbugs are back at United Medical Center.
- Amanda Hess is off to Los Angeles shortly, but this piece on the Redskins’ cheerleaders and how much they aren’t paid is about as good a note to go out on.
- Ah, the land of the free, and the home of the alphabet-based lottery for health care services.
- A D.C. man has been arrested in connection with an Oxon Hill homicide that occurred in early May.
- Nationals prospect Yewri Guillen, who died suddenly at 18 in April, suffered a a brain infection caused by an aggressive sinus infection, and not bacterial meningitis, as originally believed.
- GGW looks at what WMATA can learn from the New York MTA’s approach to Twitter.
- This seems like a perfectly good reason to go reclaim the land the District retroceded to Virginia.
- Summer: it’ll probably be hot.
- Looks like the Examiner’s superhero fantasy is still going strong.
- Behold, the $34,000 FOIA request!
- America: your congressional representatives are watching Fresh Prince reruns.
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