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>> Fourteen percent of us are the 5 percent! One out of every seven households in the Washington area belongs to the top 5 percent of household earning across the United States, The Washington Post reports. Nationally, the top 5 percent of household income begins at $191,469; the D.C. area’s high concentration of two-income homes and adults with college degrees (nearly half), along with a dominant industry that doesn’t go out of business really makes this place Boomtown.

>> Mayor Vince Gray vetoed a D.C. Council bill that would have started reforming the city’s controversial certified business enterprise program, The Washington Examiner reports. Gray said he issued the veto because the bill, which passed the Council unanimously last year, would give an advantage to larger companies.

>> Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s big transportation funding plan is being slowly picked apart by members of the Virginia Senate, and it appears the governor with the good hair will have to make some kind of deal to keep his plan alive, WAMU reports. Senate Democrats are opposed to McDonnell’s plan to get rid of Virginia’s gas tax and replace it with a statewide increase in sales taxes, and McDonnell now says he’s ready to compromise.

Briefly Noted: Virginia Target store ripped off for $10,000 in merchandise … Cooch accuses McAuliffe of flip-flopping … Barras: Chairman Mendelson is letting Graham get away … Lax is less, study tells Prince George’s County … Wizards win rare road game.