The Funk Parade organizers want the parade to actually take place on U Street this year.

People really want “Sharknado 3: Fin-Dependence Day” to happen.

A group of Tabard Inn employees are unhappy about the recent loss of eight leaders at the historic Dupont Circle business.

Perhaps because so many of the petitions that recently reached the threshold for an official response are unbelievably stupid, the White House said yesterday evening that it is raising the bar on its “We the People” site to 100,000.

An initiative that would ban corporate contributions to local campaigns has been pushed from the November ballot, but it could appear before D.C. voters early next year.

It now looks like a November vote on same-sex marriage in Maryland is a certainty—the Post reports that opponents turned in 113,000 signatures yesterday, double the 55,000 needed to put marriage equality to a vote.

An effort to recall Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown has been called off, reports The Washington Times.

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics today gave the OK to two recall petitions, one targeted at Mayor Vince Gray and the other at D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown.

For anyone just waiting to sign those petitions to get a recall of Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown on the ballot, you’ll have to wait two more weeks to do so.

David Schwartzman. Dorothy Douglas. Natale Stracuzzi. Nelson Rimensnyder. Eugene Kinlow. These names are amongst the 1,417 that Interim D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle says fellow candidate Bryan Weaver improperly collected in his attempt to get on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large special election. Weaver not only disagrees, but contends that Biddle’s challenges of his nominating petitions ensnared hundreds of legitimate D.C. voters and were filed as part of an attempt to bury his small campaign staff in the painstaking work of verifying the names, addresses and signatures of the 3,478 people that signed his nominating petitions.