Former Mayor Adrian Fenty has plenty to say about unions across the country, but he won’t say anything about the political scandals roiling D.C.

Obviously, former District Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein was doing something right — today, Transportation Nation is reporting that he has been chosen by new Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to run the Windy City’s Department of Transportation. Klein, who left the D.C. government in early December during a sea change in agency leadership after Mayor Vince Gray defeated Adrian Fenty for the city’s mayoralty, will reportedly start next month.

Photo by sally henny penny Welcome back to the Commencement Speaker Scouting Report! Last time, we brought you news of Gwen Ifill, Vernon Jordan and New York City police commissioner Raymond W. Kelly all heading to District universities to dispense platitudes and receive honorary degrees. Now it’s on to the rest of D.C.’s illustrious institutes of higher learning. Ready, set, graduate! >> It’s going to be hard to beat The George Washington University in…

TUESDAY Tonight, political gadfly and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington discusses On Becoming Fearless…in Love, Work, and Life. With her kind of money, we’d sleep better at night, too. Olssons Books & Records, 418 7th St. NW., at 12:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed hold forth at Politics and Prose tonight, discussing The Plan, which we’re guessing is the long awaited word from Democratic lawmakers that they’ve finally had an idea, and not…