Are you ready, D.C.?! That’s right: it’s the first snowfall of the season. We talked about it yesterday, and the outlook remains pretty much the same. Both Capital Weather and our local TV weatherpeople agree that we’ll get about an inch of unusually fluffy snow, with most of it falling by early afternoon. City Starts Looking For More Theft: Watch out, D.C. government ne’er-do-wells: Dan Tangherlini is on your trail. NBC4 reports that the…

A happy Friday to you, Washington. Hopefully you all made it in to work on time despite Metro having reduced the speed of their rail cars in several areas this morning. Speed restrictions were in place until 8:10 a.m. along portions of the Orange line in Maryland and Virginia, the Red line from Union Station to Silver Spring and from Shady Grove to Grosvenor, and the Green line from Branch Avenue to Congress Heights…

Many of you have already visited the “Solar Village” since it opened its gates last Friday on the National Mall. Last weekend the long lines literally wrapped around each house entered into the 2007 Solar Decathlon, with people eager to get a tour from the students, alumni and faculty from each university competitor. The ten competitions have been judged all week, from Architecture last week to Engineering today, with individual winners announced for each leg…

>> “Florida’s top police agency said Wednesday its investigation into former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s lurid Internet communications with teenage boys has been hindered because neither Foley nor the House will let investigators examine his congressional computers.” [AP via TPM] >> “A New Carrollton mother accused of leaving her five young children in filth pleaded guilty in the case on Thursday.” [NBC4] >> “A D.C. Superior Court judge today sentenced a former D.C. police…

>> The commission charged with deciding whether to fire Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson has voted to formally notify Pearson that he may not be reappointed to the bench. Can’t they just notify him he’s actually fired already? [WaPo] >> Metro trains carried more passengers in July than in any other month in the transit agency’s 31-year history. [Examiner] >> Aaaaand a coalition of the shrill against a hypothetical D.C. congestion tax is born….

>> CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry spotted Dave Chappelle hanging out outside the White House this morning. He’s reportedly feeling good despite his recent hospital visit, and joked about going after Tony Snow’s job. [CNN Political Ticker] >> The former mayor of the town of Dumfries, VA has been charged with running a brothel out of a sports therapy clinic he owns in a Prince William County strip mall. Melvin Bray lost his…

Good morning, D.C. There’s no denying it’s hot enough to cause real discomfort, but is it too hot to reasonably believe that two young girls willingly got inside the closed trunk of their father’s car to play? That is one of the questions before a Massachusetts judge in the case of a D.C. man who pleaded not guilty yesterday to reckless endangerment and assault charges after police responded to a neighbor who spotted the two…

By DCist Contributor Matt Pelkey On the Fourth of July you light fireworks, on Memorial Day you grill hunks of meat, and on Labor Day you grill more hunks of meat. But how should you celebrate Emancipation Day this Monday? The voting rights march leaves little excuse for perverting another holiday into reason for a meaningless leisure activity. But if for some reason you can’t be at the march, make up for it by heading…

Okay Washington, so the news from this weekend isn’t so cheerful. Maybe it was the thousands of war protestors on the Mall, or the hundreds of disgruntled Sufjan fans denied tickets at the Kennedy Center Saturday morning. Or maybe it was that crazy wind last night. In any case, we’re really reaching for the good news this morning. Cause Sugar’s Not Enough: In another entry to the “Why Most of the World Thinks We’re…

Good morning to you, D.C. It may be raining, but temperatures will hover somewhere between the upper 50s and the lower 60s today, if you can believe that, so no need for a heavy coat. The rain will be gone by tomorrow, in plenty of time for all of us to safely head over to Mayor Adrian Fenty’s Inaugural Ball. DCist will be there, and not just for a chance to snap some hilarious photos…