Via City Desk, the Dupont Current (not available online) has a short piece about how the Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commission has given the go-ahead for the P Street Whole Foods to continue selling single-sale beers in the grocery store. The decision reportedly comes after eight months of such sales at the Whole Foods “without major conflict,” but the Current notes that just around the corner on 14th Street, the reputable Barrel House Liquors is…

>> Starting in January, the so-called Humpback Bridge on the George Washington Parkway will be revamped to be hump free and more pedestrian friendly. [WTOP] >> Mayor Fenty’s administration tripled the number of employees making $175,000 or more from this time last year. Five of those employees, including the mayor himself, make over $200,000. [Examiner] >> Last night’s fatal shooting of a man in the Barnaby Terrace neighborhood brings D.C.’s 2007 homicide total for…

It’s just over a month until the September 12 primary, and the endorsements are starting to roll in. Non-governmental organizations, newspapers, and big-name individuals are throwing their weight behind specific candidates, hoping to given them the final boost they need before election day. In the first big mayoral endorsement of the campaign season, the Current newspaper group — which publishes the Georgetown Current, the Dupont Current, the Foggy Bottom Current, and the Northwest Current –…

“Recently, some newcomers to the local media circuit … are stealing some of the limelight from Washington’s old standards in local news,” says an article appearing in this week’s “Northwest Passages” section of the Current group of neighborhood D.C. papers. (Which includes the Georgetown Current and the Dupont Current) The newcomers in question are your friendly DCist writers, of course! The story, written by reporter Julia O’Donoghue, is a good overview of what we’re about,…