Good morning, Washington. The week surrounding the holidays is almost always a certifiably slow news period, so you can bet good money every local media outlet in the country is shamefacedly relieved to be able to find their own angle on the terrifying fatal San Francisco Zoo tiger attack. Sister site SFist has the roundup of Bay Area coverage, and the Examiner steps up to the plate with the D.C. version of the story –…

Thankfully, Mother Nature will be going easier on us this week than she did on Saturday, which saw record rainfall for the dry region. Our friends at Capital Weather are telling us that spare Tuesday and Sunday, it should be a great spring week. New D.C. Public Library Likely: Though many District activists continue to push for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library to be salvaged, the Post reported yesterday that a new…

Traffic Cameras Failing to Prevent Accidents: D.C. drivers may hate them, but may also grudgingly accept their use in preventing serious accidents cause by red light running and speeding through city streets. But according to the Post, the city’s 45 traffic enforcement cameras may not even be doing that all that well. While generating over 500,000 tickets and $32 million in revenue over the last six years of their use, the cameras have thus…

Good morning. Today will be partly cloudy this morning and clearing later with highs around 40. Today is also the first publication date for the Washington Examiner, Washington’s new free daily newspaper. (Although their website hasn’t launched yet – see dcexaminer.com.) The paper is available for free in red boxes around town and delivered free to some neighborhoods. (Seen in the Ambivalent Images photo to the right.) Housing Costs Continue to Increase: The Post started…

The warm weather will continue today with highs around 60, and a 40 percent chance of showers towards the afternoon. The photograph above of the Smithsonian Castle was taken Saturday. Thomas Circle Construction Begins: Traveling through or around Thomas Circle? Traffic patterns have been re-arranged to accommodate the start of a $5 million project to re-establish the park at the center of that circle. The W. Times also has a short write-up. Tsunami Recovery…