It comes courtesy of Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND).

There’s no better way to teach kids about pedestrian safety than to make them think that they’ll be run over by a monster truck.

It was just last month that Metro officials seemed totally oblivious to the problem of sexual harassment on area trains and buses. Now they’re getting ready to kick off a public service campaign encouraging riders to report any harassment as soon as it happens.

No, picking cherry blossoms off of trees or hanging off of the branches is not allowed. Pass the word forward, if only for the sake of the cherry blossoms.

You probably noticed a couple of changes to the way DCist looks this morning.

Mayor Vince Gray, who was getting arrested for protesting way before any of these Occupy people, has made it his mission to turn October into a month-long push for D.C. autonomy. Part of that push involves calling in favors from some of his celeb pals, who will record public service announcements denouncing the District’s second-class status.

To our wonderful and wacky commentariat: we’re sorry.

Good morning, everyone. A brief note from DCist HQ regarding the site: last night, we migrated our servers to a more stable, robust and future-focused system. The migration went well, but it could take up to 36 hours for us to work out all the little bugs

At DCist headquarters, we’ve been working hard to figure out a way to make commenting on the site easier, faster and more fun — and I think we’ve done that. I’m pleased to announce that this weekend, DCist commenting will be migrated over to Disqus, a dynamic commenting system which, among other features, will allow our readers to log in to comment through Twitter and Facebook, customize the way they view comments, and include multimedia…

We don’t do a whole lot of PSAs here at DCist, but there’s something about a kid with life-threatening cancer that finds us making an exception. Devan (come on, just look at that face) is a four-year old Washingtonian who has a rare form of high-risk leukemia. His parents, Indira and Dermot, have been hitting the virtual pavement with vigor to try and find someone who can donate bone marrow to Devan, which –…