Photo by Gerald L. Campbell.

Good morning, Washington. Will you soon be represented by a new Councilmember? Last night, the D.C. Council’s committee on redistricting released their suggestions to move the boundaries of the city’s Wards to fall in line with the latest Census data. (Here’s a map.) The biggest changes: the very contentious splitting of Hill East between Wards 6 and 7, a piece of Shaw which will move to Ward 6, and Ward 2’s strange new shape. (Though that last change is hardly a shock — Jack Evans, Ward 2’s sitting Councilmember, is a member of the redistricting committee.) The Council is scheduled to vote on the plan at 1 p.m. this afternoon.

Cab Drivers Against Medallions?: Alan Suderman tackles the subject of taxi medallions this morning, and finds that some long-tenured cab drivers — who would conceivably stand to benefit the most from a medallion system — aren’t exactly united in their support for the proposal. Two separate cabbies Suderman talked to called the medallion proposal “full of shit,” while a cab driver association rep called a medallion system “a gift from Santa Claus with the Bogeyman inside.” What isn’t up for debate is how valuable potential medallions will be. Suderman notes that “it’s not unreasonable to assume that in a few short years, those $500 medallions could be worth somewhere well north of the six-figure mark.”

Asian Boom: There have always been pockets of the D.C. metro area in which Asian culture has thrived — Falls Church and Montgomery County spring to mind immediately. But the Post reports that Census figures show the Washington region’s Asian population is booming, increasing by nearly 60 percent over the last decade, pushed by a large increase in Indian relocation to the area.

Briefly Noted: Jason Cherkis’ final City Paper dispatch is an investigative doozy on The Pines, a for-profit residential treatment center where the District sends youth wards…School bus involved in accident on Naylor Road SE…Man stabbed inside Rockville home…Multi-car accident injures several at 3rd Street and Independence Avenue SW…”How #wmata employee reserves his parking space at Largo.”…How about that: the Redskins’ top draft pick, Ryan Kerrigan, is deaf in one ear…Scientists find a bacteria that subsists purely on caffeine, just like college students and journalists.

This Day in DCist: Last year, the Council and then-chair Vince Gray threatened to strip streetcar funding from the city’s budget. The local blogosphere exploded, and the Council quickly restored the funding. (Makes this year’s negotiations seem downright placid, eh?)