A Northeast D.C. resident became the city’s first fatality from West Nile virus, the District announced yesterday.

No one likes getting eaten up by the skeeters. But the District Department of Health is warning D.C. residents that an itchy red bump might not be the worst thing that could happen after they take a bite out of you — West Nile Virus has been identified in mosquito samples in the District.

The District has changed dramatically over the last few years, spurred in part by policies implemented by D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams. But what was once considered a trend that would help lift all boats is now seen as doing just the opposite, writes the Post. According to a poll they conducted, some 61 percent of voters see the city’s many development projects as “mainly bad” for the poor, a dramatic shift from a similar poll…

Maryland Lt. Governor and candidate for the U.S. Senate Michael Steele must be red in the face these days — after calling an association with the Republican Party and President George W. Bush “a scarlet letter” in an anonymous interview with the Post’s Dana Milbank, Steele is now trying to limit the damage of his surprisingly honest comments. “I’m not trying to dis the president,” he was quoted as saying by the Washington Times….

When DCist was out for Sunday brunch at the Fort Meyer Officer’s Club, we picked up a copy of the Pentagram, the base’s newspaper. We often forget about all the news that happens on the area’s military bases, partially because base-life is relatively closed off and isolated from the general public. (DCist had trouble finding our way onto the base, with the Wright Gate, adjacent to the Iwo Jima Memorial, closed; we had to enter…