- The woman who made a bomb threat on a Metro train at the Rockville station this morning, a 51-year-old McLean resident, has been involuntarily committed.
- The D.C. Council will vote on the city’s 2012 budget for the final time tomorrow — a last minute revision to the budget itself shows that the District is banking on an additional $93 million in revenue, and has rejiggered spending priorities to health-based initiatives. It’s also likely that Councilmember Mary Cheh will introduce an amendment to tax those making $400,000 or more. Should be an interesting day tomorrow.
- It appears as if the replacement for the shuttered Rodent Safeway on Rhode Island Avenue in Edgewood will be a Big Lots, possibly opening this fall.
- A lawsuit filed against the city’s police department and Chief Cathy Lanier alleges that Lanier, among other improprieties, “commenced a purge of senior African-American career officers on the force.”
- Did the contractor who operates MetroAccess vans remove seats from those vehicles to accomodate larger wheelchairs — or to skirt federal regulations regarding how long drivers can operate vans carrying eight or more passengers?
- No surprise: every museum wants to be located as close to the National Mall as possible.
- It appears as if the Arts at 5th and I development is unraveling quickly.
- Penn Quarter fusion restuarant TenPenh will close its doors by the end of the month.
- Prince George’s County wants to convince the Redskins to move their practice facility to Maryland.
- Police have made arrests for the 2009 murder of a 57-year-old man in Clarendon.
- GGW’s Steven Glazerman argues that we probably shouldn’t read too much into where D.C. Councilmember send their kids to school.
- The General Services Administration is confident that the Department of Homeland Security will still build a headquarters on the site of St. Elisabeth’s — just not by 2016, as originally planned.
- Richard Blais still wants to open a burger joint in the District. (At this point, who doesn’t?)
- The Codmother — the new fish and chips place under Touchdown on U Street — has some logo.
- Who wears short shorts? Not some members of the Capitol Police.
- “It was the quintessential June scene: balloons, banners, “Pomp and Circumstance,” grandma in a wheelchair, the graduate scanning the crowd to wave to his dad. The only thing missing? Cameras. You can’t bring cameras into the D.C. jail.”
Photo by Karon.
