At least five D.C. DMV inspectors have been fired for accepting small cash bribes from cab drivers looking to sail through the inspection process despite deficiencies in their vehicles. Johnson’s got photos, presumably taken by honest DMV employees, of the interiors of several taxis where drivers leave between $20-$50 for inspectors, hoping they’ll look the other way.

The City Paper’s Mike DeBonis may have the most intriguing news of the day — under the 2010 budget proposal released today by Mayor Adrian Fenty, D.C. drivers would no longer have to get their cars inspected. Wait; what? Really? Well, kind of. You’ll still have to head down to the city’s one inspection station for a federally mandated emissions inspection, but no longer will you have to sit through the usual safety inspection that…