Mar 28, 2013
Brightest Young Things Dismisses Plagiarist, Takes Nearly Entire Site Offline for ‘Internal Audit’
Brightest Young Things announced the resignation of Logan Donaldson, who was discovered this week to have committed several acts of plagiarism. The site is also taking nearly its entire archive offline for an “internal audit.”
An editor of the arts and lifestyle website Brightest Young Things was caught plagiarizing in a guide to upcoming musical events.
Sep 27, 2007
Morning Roundup: Harvest Moon Edition
Good morning, Washington. More news today on the Virginia abusive driver’s fees front, this time even closer to home. Arlington residents will be cheered to hear that an Arlington County General District Court judge has ruled that Virginia’s abusive-driver fees are unconstitutional. Judge Dorothy H. Clarke is the fourth District Court judge in Virginia to make such a ruling, but the first one in Northern Virginia. Naturally, the state will appeal the decision, and this…
Jul 17, 2007
Reinoso Assistant Fired Over Nude Photos
Poor Victor Reinoso. First the acting Deputy Mayor for Education gets caught up in a plagiarism scandal, then D.C. Council chairman Vincent Gray delays his confirmation vote, calling into question whether Reinoso should be in his job, or if anyone should have his job in the first place. The guy could only be more embattled if he had a sex scandal hanging over his head. What’s that you say? The Examiner reports that one of…
Jun 28, 2007
Morning Roundup: What’s That Smell Edition
Chances are, if you live in or near the city and are not fantastically wealthy, you probably have roommates. Maybe you live with friends, maybe with some folks you randomly found on craigslist and barely talk to, but sharing your living space with other people is a fact of life for most people under 30 in D.C. And in this kind of heat, any sort of odd personal odors emanating from your roommates’ bedrooms might…
May 14, 2007
Cardin Agrees to Lift Hold From Schools Plan
On Saturday D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Notron and Mayor Adrian Fenty reached a quick agreement with Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) to remove the hold the senator placed on the District schools takeover plan on Thursday. “We have a handshake agreement. That’s what old friends can do,” Norton told the Post. Cardin had said he placed the hold as a political maneuver to pressure the District to negotiate on a long-standing disagreement involving the District’s plans…
May 11, 2007
DCist on the Radio
Fans of DCist’s resident municipal politics expert Martin Austermuhle will want to tune in to the D.C. Politics Hour with Kojo and Jonetta today at noon. Martin will be a guest on today’s show along with Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham and Vincent Schiraldi, head of the D.C. Dept. of Youth Rehabilitation Services. Kojo and guest host Tom Sherwood of NBC4 plan on discussing a wide range of topics, including the school takeover plan…
May 11, 2007
Morning Roundup: Do Work Edition
It’s Friday, D.C., and if you live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, you may have suffered a lengthy power outage yesterday after a manhole exploded and injured a Pepco worker in the area. The worker suffered second degree burns but will recover. If you’re a bit of a science geek like us, you immediately began Googling something like “How exactly do manholes explode?” after you read the above story, so allow us to save you…
Mar 24, 2006
Breaking News: Domenech Resigns
In a post just published at the post.blog, Jim Brady, WashingtonPost.com’s Executive Editor, announced that Ben Domenech, who on Tuesday launched a conservative blog on the site, has resigned his position. His resignation comes on the heels of multiple accusations of plagiarism. Since his debut earlier this week, both Domenech and the Post had come under fire for the content of the blog and the qualifications of its author. But as the week went on,…