Ramsey’s Legacy Pondered: The Post has a front page story this morning mulling over exactly how outgoing Police Chief Ramsey will be remembered as he leaves his post. Often criticized for emphasizing public relations and merely reacting to crime issues instead of thinking ahead, but undeniably praised for bringing order to a corrupt department and out-of-control crime situation, council member Kathy Patterson (D-Ward 3) probably assessed Ramsey’s overall performance most accurately: “very mixed.” Ford’s…

Batten down the hatches, Washington. Proving that no good spell of weather goes unpunished, we’ve now got some major storms headed our way. Two separate storm lines, to be precise, are barreling down on the metro area as we speak, the first having just begun, and the second, more powerful system, expected between noon and 5 p.m. With winds at 30 mph, we’d suggest upgrading your umbrella to something more than cheap and crappy. District…

Hey there, Washington. How was your weekend? Ours was OK. Yeah, just OK. Oh sure, we’re fine. We guess we’re just a little troubled by some of today’s headlines. As if the looming Heat Emergency, which has given us a Code Orange Air Quality day today and will place the heat index close to 110 through much of the week, wasn’t disturbing enough, we alse read in the Examiner that the growth of online news…

Good morning Washington, and welcome to the second full day of this summer’s Crime Emergency. Feel safer yet? No? Well, give it a few weeks. It’ll still be a little while before the city collectively re-loses interest in its crime problem. But for now, there’s some excellent coverage in the area media — and perhaps unsurprisingly, the Post is leading the way. July’s Murders Examined: Although the deaths of Alan Senitt and Chris Crowder have…

Hey there, Washington. We’re sorry to say there isn’t a lot of cheery news this morning. For starters, the rain is finally back. Um, it should be over by Friday. That’s optimisitic, right? In fact, the headlines this morning were so tough for us to swallow (see below), we feel the need to at least try to brighten up your day just by linking to Cute Overload. Because nothing says we love you like…