Jarrett Lewis used it to get access to restaurants and free football tickets.

Scandal in the White House! President Obama’s likely pick for chief of staff is a distracted cyclist.

Bad news doesn’t seem to come in trickles for Mayor Vince Gray’s administration, but in waves.

Today, Mayor Vince Gray announced two new major senior appointments for his troubled administration — Chris Murphy as his Chief of Staff and Andrea Pringle as his Deputy Chief of Staff, the latter responsible for one of the hardest-hitting campaign mailers put out during the divisive 2010 mayoral contest.

Watch out, D.C. — our local slice of the internet is experiencing some serious mood swings today! This morning, it was all doom and gloom after the announcement of Gabe Klein’s departure, among several other well-thought of agency heads, like DCRA’s Linda Argo and OCTO’s Bryan Sivak. (Sivak himself sounded really broken up about having to step down.) But things have apparently brightened up a little bit this afternoon, as Vince Gray has announced that Allen Lew will be city’s next City Administrator.