The Sacramento Kings are very close to announcing a relocation from Central California to Virginia Beach, according to Inside Business, a newspaper in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia.

Post ’em if you got ’em, Washington. According to WJLA, today is the smack-dab middle of cherry blossom season. We hope you got your photos already. With rain in the morning, a cold snap beginning in the afternoon and winds that are likely to pull off blossoms, this year’s best days for walking around the Tidal Basin seem to already be over. Rats. D.C. Council Provisionally Mandates HPV Vaccine: The debate over the Gardasil…

Sounds Lovely: While WMATA’s metrorail system is clearly more modern than the New York subway, it is still vulnerable to a complete control system meltdown as has been seen in New York this week. If control systems were paralyzed, like they have been on parts of the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan (due to a homeless person starting a fire to stay warm adjacent to a systems relay room), metrorail would have to revert to…

As you probably know by now, if you’ve been trolling political blogs all day like the good little unproductive employee you are, Ed Schrock, a conservative Republican congressman from Hampton Roads, Va., quit his re-election efforts after a D.C. blogger, BlogActive, alleged that Schrock was gay. As DCeiver noted this morning: “Don’t look now, but Virginia’s having its own McGreevey moment!” BlogActive, run by D.C. gay activist Mike Rogers, has been on a campaign for…