- Grist gives Capital Bikeshare the thumbs up. While we’re on the topic, a public meeting about Bikeshare expansion was held last night — GGW has a fine writeup including a photo of yours truly looking quite the transit nerd — and the system will reward riders who help them redistribute bikes by riding from usually full stations to usually empty ones during rush hour.
- Juicy: Michael Neibauer reports that the witness list for a pair of lawsuits regarding city-owned property is an all-star list of local political activity, including former mayor Adrian Fenty, former attorney general Peter Nickles, big shot developer R. Donahue Peebles, Fenty pals Omar Karim and Sinclair Skinner, Marion Barry and Post reporter Mike DeBonis.
- The D.C. Council was handed a setback yesterday — a judge ruled that they must serve Sulaimon Brown with a subpoena in person.
- Ted Loza update: prosecutors are asking for a sentence of 14 months for the former Jim Graham chief of staff, who pled guilty in February on charges of accepting gratuities and filing a false statement for his role in a taxicab corruption scandal. Loza will be sentenced June 7.
- Virginia’s crackdown on unsafe driving was a success: cops handed out 5,814 tickets and arrested 34 people over two days earlier this month.
- Albert Haynesworth sure is getting a lot of attention for allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman inside a D.C. nightclub, but it’s easy to forget that he’s also battling a road rage charge in Fairfax — Haynesworth’s trial on a misdemeanor assault charge was pushed back to May 31 today.
- A $10 million lawsuit involving Sidwell Friends School and a man who accuses the school of allowing his wife to have an affair with a psychologist employed is having a tough time finding a D.C. judge who can hear the case: after all, a bunch of them have kids enrolled at Sidwell.
- UDC’s working to fix a violation of the city’s human rights act, reports the Blade.
- The District’s 2012 budget might make Wall Street happy, notes the Washington Times.
- The home of Brian Betts, the former Shaw Middle School principal who was killed in April 2010, is now on the market.
- The city is scrambling to find summer activities for kids to do this summer.
- New Post media critic Erik Wemple says that his blog will focus less on WaPo and “tilt at other outlets.”
- Congratulations to D.C. firefighter Chuck Ryan who, after being burned over 30 percent of his body two months ago, went home from the hospital today.
- D.C. drivers are the dumbest in the United States. (Yes, even more so than Maryland’s!)
- Just to be clear, fellow adults: if you do this, I reserve the right to point and laugh.
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