So should we all be intimidated that our garbage cans are smarter than we are?

The Kentucky Senator says the feds are better off investing in Metro.

The D.C. Council will vote on a bill today that would impose fines on some businesses that run their air conditioners while keeping their doors open.

D.C. Fire/EMS has $70,000 worth of unused polo shirts lying around, reports The Washington Times.

Most everyone knows that the District’s government is big — some 33,000 people work for it. But today, The Washington Times breaks down why it’s so costly and how that’s slowly changing.

We need to have a talk, NBC. Because if you’re going to continue to print stories like this, we’re going to have to crack jokes in response to every single part of it.

Now, look — I know that most of you probably had plans to jump into a local waterway real soon. But it seems an especially silly idea in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which may have dumped as much as “200 million gallons of rain mixed with raw sewage” around the region.

Perhaps Washington D.C. should have had a place on that shame map, after all — considering how much money the federal government wastes on electricity inside the city’s borders.