One-hundred thirty-two new parents and pregnant people in D.C.’s three lowest-income wards will get $900 a month for a year to spend as they wish.

The hope is that it will catch on with similar papers around the world, which have seen declines in sales as people increasingly go cashless.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ credit cards were ripped off, and he wants to tell everybody about it.

A group seeking to ban corporate contributions to D.C. campaigns is fighting to stay on the November ballot.

An armored car full of money traveling on Interstate 270 in Maryland this morning was not secured properly, allowing a “snow globe of cash” to spill onto the roadway.

Drug liberalization advocates have always argued that the government could make more money by regulating and taxing marijuana than it spends pursuing, prosecuting and imprisoning those who use it. Looking at the District’s nascent medical marijuana program, it’s clear that they’re right — and cash-conscious city officials are likely to be very happy.

I made a brief note of this Capital Business story in today’s morning’s roundup. But upon further consideration, I felt it necessary to highlight that the guy who runs Discovery Communications made $42.6 million last year.

$330 million. That’s a lot of moolah, alright. It’s also the amount up for grabs in tonight’s Mega Millions drawing, a nearly-national $1 lottery which is open residents of the District, Virginia and Maryland. Your chances of winning? 176 million-to-one. But think about what one could do with that kind of scratch! Even if you took the lump-sum payout, you’d probably end up with somewhere around $150 million, give or take, after taxes. That’d be…

Beginning November 1, D.C. Public Libraries — except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library — will no longer accept cash as payment for fines and late fees on borrowed materials. The change in policy is due to a new District law which requires armored vehicles to come and retrieve all city revenue from government buildings; obviously, it wouldn’t really be cost-effective for DCPL to pay for armored cars to show up at every single…

We’re all for finding novel ways to motivate D.C. public school students to get good grades and go to college, but something about this story in the Examiner strikes us as odd. A group of students are lobbying the D.C. Council to revive legislation that would establish a system of cash rewards for student achievement. The bill, which as it’s currently written would provide valedictorians $3,000 apiece and students who have improved the most $1,000…