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Good morning, Washington. Let’s hope Metro keeps all its parts together today, eh?
Winter Rate Hikes Are Coming: Hey, Maryland residents. Bad news. Pepco is planning on raising its monthly charges for its customers in the Old Line State, lobbying the statehouse for a 4 percent jump, or about $5.56 for its average customer. Thomas Graham, the utility’s regional president, tells WUSA that between snowstorms, hurricanes, and the need to cut down trees, it’s not cheap being Pepco. So its Maryland customers—including the 130,000 in Montgomery County who sat in the dark for six days following a January Nor’easter—wil probably see an average rise of $5.56 starting next July.
Life Imitates a John Woo Film: So, there the TSA agents are, just doing their work at the security line at Reagan National Airport, frisking and whatnot, and—whoa! Someone’s got a book in their luggage that isn’t really a book; it’s a carrier for a pair of throwing daggers. The passenger, who will almost certainly have to be played by Nicholas Cage if there’s ever a movie based on this incident, surrendered the foot-long blades and the hollowed-out book, the Associated Press reports.
Woe, Adrian: TBD gets in on the D.C. voting rights/Occupy whatever hunger strike story with a profile of lead—and now lone remaining—faster Adrian Parsons. The withering performance artist, whose best known “work” came in 2007 when, oh, you don’t want to know, has been getting a lot of attention lately, including from this site. But TBD reporter Jenny Rogers, interviewing Parsons deep into the second week of his deprivation, might have nailed it with her lede: “I have a cold, and I’m afraid I’m going to kill Adrian Parsons.”
Briefly Noted: Bike lanes not getting built … Did LivingSocial really need to run that survey last week? They could have just read Washingtonian, which says butt implants for all this Christmas! … Rolling Stone needed two tries to report that Louis C.K. is hosting the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner; we only needed one … Biggest menorah I’ve ever seen … Behind the scenes on the Post’s great “Seat Pleasant 59” series.
This Day in DCist: In 2010, the D.C. Council got biblical, and we changed up the commenting system. In 2009, so, so much snow, and someone brought a gun to a blogger’s party.
