- The House of Representatives is likely to cut funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s new offices on the west campus of the old St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. But it’s likely the funds will be added back in by the Senate, and D.C. says it’s prepared to move forward with the redevelopment of the east side of the campus regardless of DHS involvement.
- In the when pigs fly department: the University of Maryland is no longer opposed to running the light rail Purple Line through its campus.
- Mayor Vince Gray will answer questions from Washington’s LGBT community during a town hall inside the Wilson Building; the event will be live-streamed by the Washington Blade, whose editor, Kevin Naff, will serve as moderator.
- Paying for parking by phone in D.C. will soon cost drivers 30 to 35 cents.
- Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) holds up D.C.’s multimodal transit network as an example: “Here in Washington, DC, when gas prices spike, people have choices. They can take a bus, Metro, bike, Capital Bike-share, walk, cab, drive. It’s a wide range of [choices] and it actually minimizes some of the sticker shock.”
- A reporter on assignment in Washington for China Daily thinks the Metro stinks.
- Dave McKenna reports that the Redskins are removing seats from FedEx Field to install party decks, which basically sounds like a way to charge people admission to come to the stadium and watch the game on television.
- Mean bloggers leave Councilmember Jack Evans speechless.
- Harry Thomas, Jr. thinks that the city has too many taxicabs. (You know, all those cabs that are damn near unavoidable in Ward 5.)
- The Washington Examiner will co-sponsor a presidential debate in Iowa this summer. So, there’s that.
- It’s going to get easier to refill a water bottle around town.
- A Georgetown student was robbed at gunpoint near the intersection of 36th and O Streets NW last night.
- Wait, there’s a job out there for people whose main qualification is being a “prolific Wikipedia contributor, with seven years of contributions”? Why didn’t anyone tell me?
- Now here’s a lede you don’t see every day: “The Peruvian presidential election this weekend could produce traffic gridlock in the northern Virginia city of Falls Church.”
- The Library of Congress is still trying to figure out how exactly they’re going to archive all your tweets.
- Talk about loving your job.
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