Alt headline: Now is a good time to apply to the Washington Post.

Big changes are coming to the Post, according to a new memo from Executive Editor Marty Baron.

Fellow Wonkblog writer Dylan Matthews and Director of Platforms and former BlogPost blogger Melissa Bell will also leave.

Good morning, Washington. Freedom Plaza may be a little crowded this morning as antiwar and anti-Wall Street protesters make room for Mayor Vince Gray to kick off the D.C. Full Democracy Freedom Rally and March, planned to coincide with this weekend’s official dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial.

Heeb Magazine for the fourth year in a row put together their Heeb 100 list, which debuted in the fall. It’s the top 100 young Jews to keep an eye out for (according to the magazine, anyway), and five Washingtonians are on the list. A new portrait exhibition of those up-and-comers will debut in D.C. tonight at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, with a reception from 7-9 p.m. featuring some of the honorees….

It’s been a little while, but we decided to restart What’s That You Say?, our roundup of the best, funniest, and most interesting comments for the previous week. It’s also a good chance for those of you who haven’t signed up for our profile system to check out how useful they can be — click through the names of any registered commenter mentioned here to see what else that person has been saying lately. Read…

It’s rare that any of the well-read political blogs based here in Washington take on issues that fit within DCist’s mandate to stick mainly to local issues, but when they do, boy howdy, they can really make a mess of things for themselves. The American Prospect’s Ezra Klein has already issued a mea culpa for a post he put up late last night on his personal blog, which wondered why there aren’t more amenities for…