>> The biggest D.C. government corruption scandal ever? [WaPo, updated from earlier story] >> Will there finally be enough places to lock up our bicycles? [WJLA] >> An Emerging Columbia Hts.-Petworth Food Split? [Free Ride] >> Bloomingdale Farmers Market not a given for next year? [In Shaw] >> Could H Street NE put a cap on the number of bars that can open there? [City Desk] Photo by sally henny penny…

>> New Police Chief Cathy Lanier on being a woman in the Metropolitan Police Dept.: “Lanier says she wants to tell her story so it will help other women who face similar challenges. She describes how she faced a constant barrage of sexual harassment when she first came on the force in 1990. ‘I’ve had police officers expose themselves to me riding around in a patrol car. {I was} assigned with a training officer who…

>> As exciting as all the congressional politics were yesterday, there was also a whole bunch of local fun going on. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has full results of the races, including those for ANC, for your viewing pleasure (in a PDF format). [DCBOEE] >> Hey, who needs political representation when you get to file your taxes a whole extra day later? Something for us to look forward to come April….

For nearly a year, DCist has been following the conflict developing in Shaw between proprietors of new restaurants and bars and neighborhood churches, which oppose the opening of new establishments that allow drinking. Area churches have relied, so far, upon a provision in the law which grandfathers existing liquor stores and taverns, but which does not allow new establishments, “within 400 feet of a public, private, or parochial primary, elementary, or high school; college or…

Starting this week, the District’s school-children and their teachers will take an extended break from each other. And just as much as we fondly remember that joyous feeling of not having to face a day of schooling for two full months, we now dread that very prospect. Why? Kids out late on weeknights spell trouble. Beyond the usual trouble that no school and warm weather tends to breed, In Shaw brings us news of something…

Our post on a noise controversy in Glover Park yesterday mentioned that neighborhood’s newly created e-mail listserv on Yahoo Groups. That post got us thinking about neighborhood e-mail groups, and exactly how many there were around the city. These e-mail lists are generally open to the public and whether moderated or unmoderated serve as community forums for discussing neighborhood topics. The Columbia Heights list has even been such a hotbed of discussion it sparked a…

If you have any interest in the future of U Street and Shaw as a whole, the District’s Office of Planning and Economic Development and the Office of Planning is hosting a forum tonight on the future of planning in the neighborhoods, especially along the U Street and Seventh Street corridors in Northwest. The session will address “the redevelopment of key publicly-owned buildings and land, including the Howard Theatre and Grimke School on Vermont Avenue,…

We have a favorite saying about the current housing market in D.C.: “Never have so many paid so much, for so little.” In the last several years, changes in D.C. government, combined with D.C. area residents growing weary of long commutes, have led to an influx of people moving into the District; people who are looking for a taste of urban life, and who have money to spend. Everywhere you look, formerly abandoned or dilapidated…