- The Government Accountability Office to WMATA: you can do better. (Okay, there’s more to it than that, but I’m still making my way through the report.) Here’s Metro’s official response to the report, and reports on the details from the Post, GGW, City Paper and WTOP.
- Fear not, Phil Mendelson! Mayor Vince Gray says that he’s located the money to hire more cops.
- A trip to the DMV may cost you a little bit more beginning tomorrow.
- Nathan Saunders, the president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, says that the city’s IMPACT teacher evaluation system is “racist.”
- Peaceaholics co-founder Ron Moten made his candidacy for the D.C. Council seat held by Yvette Alexander official today; the Washington Informer takes a poll of some Ward 7 residents to find that many aren’t thrilled about either.
- Dave McKenna on the increasingly difficult task of cooling the District’s kids down.
- DDOT’s still trying to settle on an alignment for the streetcar in Anacostia.
- Virginia: you’ve got a whole bunch of new laws to learn by tomorrow.
- The Post’s Mark Jenkins tells us that Michael Bay, American Hero, decided to set the “jokier” section of his latest blow ’em up blockbuster in Washington, D.C.
- The historic building at 1438 U Street NW is back on the market.
- An incredibly tough week for restaurants continues, as a fire swept through the Hard Times Cafe and Delhi Club in Clarendon.
- The attempted robbery of an armored truck in Trinity Square this morning turned violent after a suspect in the robbery was shot multiple times after trying to flee the scene.
- An anonymous donor has saved D.C. Public School’s sports program with a $1.5 million gift.
- City Paper’s streetboxes are way cooler than any other newspaper’s streetboxes, yo
- You know who won’t be playing D.C.’s new online poker games? Professional poker players.
- Whoops: National Park Service allows tattered flag to fly above Francis Scott Key house in Georgetown.
Photo by Sanjay Suchak.
