Good morning, Washington. DCist heard from a tipster Thursday night that “several hundred” people were planning to converge on McPherson Square Saturday morning for a sister protest to New York’s “Occupy Wall Street.” NBC Washington reports that at the height of participation Saturday, the group called “Occupy DC” amounted to about 40 to 50 people whose protests were often drowned out by a women’s percussion practice across the square.

John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in 1981, has been granted the right to obtain a D.C. driver’s license in order to drive to visit his mother in Williamsburg. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman issued the ruling Tuesday that gives Hinckley more freedom and permission to spend more time away from St. Elizabeths Hospital, the Southeast D.C. mental hospital where he lives. Fingers crossed that Hinckley’s upcoming…

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Lots of stadium news as the day of the D.C. City Council vote on the baseball stadium proposal is here. The Post reports that Mayor Anthony Williams has lined up enough votes to get his proposal for a South Capitol Street stadium passed by the council. The two crucial votes, Ward 1’s Jim Graham (left) and Ward 8’s Sandy Allen, have been secured. In exchange for their support, Williams will fund library improvements (Graham’s request)…

WMATA Chief to Ride Rails to Work: WMATA’s chief executive, Richard White, is now riding public transportation to work. The Post reports that White, who lives in Fairfax County, says that riding with commuters will give him the added perspective needed to understand the daily problems the system faces. From the Post: He said it’s not so bad on early morning trains — he can usually snag a seat then — but in the evening,…

John Hinckley, who shot then-President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, wants unsupervised visits home to see his aging parents in Williamsburg, Va., the Post reports. Hinkley, who has been confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast D.C. for the past two decades, has been allowed to leave the hospital campus unsupervised on a few occasions to see his parents when they have been in D.C. Although those visits went off without…