DCist can finally claim it has reached a journalistic zenith — in a first, we received a tip from a well-placed source that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams is set to make an announcement today concerning his political future. While we tried to tease more info out of our source — is Williams running for re-election, or is he stepping aside? — the most we can say is that today is the day that will decide…

D.C. being the place that it is, big protests such as those that took place this last weekend are a dime a dozen. Complaints of excessive use of force by police officers are just as recurrent, with protestors often charging that overzealous police officers step in to make arrests too quickly and offer few apologies or admissions of wrongdoing thereafter. This weekend seems to have been different in that regard — WJLA is reporting that…

She came, she went, she left destruction in her wake. Hurricane Katrina — whose fierce winds and plentiful rains have left New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas partially submerged and reeling from the damage — is continuing its way up through the continental United States, yet will thankfully avoid the Washington area. That’s not to say we won’t feel Katrina’s impact in our own way, though. The Examiner today recognizes that District gas prices…

So the Nats are having a little post-All Star Game slump. In any city, fans would blame the players, the managers, the umpires, anything. Here in Washington, where the beloved Nationals have electrified a baseball-starved populace? It’s the fans, like the one at right that Justin DC snapped a pic of at Monday’s game against the Colorado Rockies. The bandwagoners, to be exact. Writes the Post: When the bandwagoners first showed up — yapping on…

We hope that after yesterday’s air raid, things will be a bit calmer in the city today. This photo by Justin DC, posted on Flickr, shows an empty stairwell in the Russell Senate Office Building, which was evacuated, along with the rest of the Capitol campus yesterday. Although we were tucked away in our office near the Hill and didn’t see the crush of evacuees in the streets, we can safely assume this stairwell…

Good morning Washington, the weather will be in the 60s and sunny with the next 10 days “consistently average,” says Capital Weather. This photo of the Hirshhorn is from Justin DC, posted in DCist Photos via Flickr. Serial Arsonist Caught: Authorities say that the serial arsonist who has plagued parts of the District, Virginia and Maryland has been caught. Read about this big story in the Post, W.Times and the Examiner. According to investigators, a…