The Federal Transit Administration has identified 229 defects on Metrorail “requiring 66 remedial actions.”

Shaw’s Back Alley Waffles made national news this week when it accused online coupon giant Groupon of driving it out of business. But the restaurant’s problems ran deeper than that—it lacked the necessary permits to serve food.

Rep. James P. Moran (D-Va.) is taking on a new cause—ending the slaughter of horses in the U.S. for human consumption overseas after receiving a petition from a nine-year-old New Hampshire boy.

The team of architects and engineers who recently got a bird’s-eye view of the city from the tip of the Washington Monument went back to work yesterday, inspecting the exterior of the National Cathedral for damage caused by August’s 5.8 magnitude earthquake.

This morning, the National Park Service announced that the rappelling inspection of the Washington Monument had been completed. The team of engineers from WJE, who had been sneaking out a trap door at the top of the structure and getting occasionally blown off the side, will now move to the National Cathedral to inspect damage there.

Here’s Dave Megerle, a member of the Wiss, Janney, Elstner, Associates “Difficult Access Team,” hanging rappelling ropes at the top of the Washington Monument, nearly 555 feet off the ground.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has put out a report that says that many cities are not doing enough to inform citizens about the results of health inspections at restaurants. Predictably, the District is pretty high on the list of cities that the center feels need to be doing more. The report scolds D.C. for forcing people who want to obtain restaurant inspection reports to file Freedom of Information Act requests. CSPI…