The idea is for the legislation to serve as a model for the states.

After a contentious D.C. Council hearing about Uber on Monday, Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) said rather than regulate the on-demand sedan service, he’d rather see a relaxing of regulations on the District’s taxi industry.

A maddeningly long D.C. Council session that focused almost exclusively on the livery sedan service Uber was a theater of the absurd, featuring references to the Soviet Union and Robert F. Kennedy, along with explanations of the nature capitalism.

The Department of Consumer & Regulatory Affairs is officially launching a new blog next week associated with its Collegiate Off-Campus Housing Initiative, called ThisShouldBeIllegal.com. The basic idea of the web-based program, according to DCRA spokesperson Michael Rupert, is “to try and get college kids to make sure they are being rented to legally.” Under D.C. law, your landlord is required to have a business license, and the process of obtaining one prompts an automatic safety…