Does anyone know what happened? Maybe it's not blood. Could be ketchup.
*photo courtesy of one of our intrepid readers.

So no one can find a job.  Well there's one government entity that has announced it's hiring: Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B. It posted an ad on the Shepherd Park listserv:
The pay seems OK. But it's part-time work. Full details after the jump.

The City Lights Public Charter School closes tomorrow. And when the school for at-risk youth closes, I wonder: will that mean the end to getting a straight answer as to why it shut down. Last Wednesday, the Post's Bill Turque did a solid job trying to suss out a reason:
"The collapse of City Lights, housed [...]

Last week, as part of our average day coverage, Mike DeBonis reported that Councilmember Phil Mendelson was "appalled" at AG Peter Nickles' interest in rescinding a law that requires the D.C. Jail to release inmates before 10 p.m.
Mendo has every reason to be appalled. As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he knows all too well [...]

D.C. Councilmembers Harry Thomas Jr. and Yvette Alexander are elected officials. People must have seen something in them that they liked. Maybe in Thomas' case, it was his famous name. Maybe in Alexander's case, it was her sunny personality. But since joining the council, both have gained reputations as lightweights.
Last Wednesday, on February 18, Thomas [...]

On Saturday, Colby King wrote another column addressing youth violence and the problems with DYRS. In his column, he spoke for journalists all over—but especially here in the District—about all those columns getting zero respect from the people that could actually fix the juvenile justice system. In other words, he's spilled a lot of ink [...]

The Dipper Man has nodded off. Dante Dickens is sitting outside Courtroom 321. His belly is full of Burger King. His eyes are closed. His shiny head tilts off to the left against his jacket color. He is wearing his work boots, dark blue work pants, and a work shirt with his name sewn on [...]

It is 12:30 p.m. and Officer Harris is sitting outside the courtroom with a fellow cop. Harris is reading an Examiner. The other cop is tearing through James Patterson's Violets Are Blue. Both just testified in the case of the dipper man who fell asleep at the wheel. But there's been one snag.
A prosecution witness—the [...]

For a big part of the morning, one woman rides up and down the elevators in D.C. Superior Court. Sometimes she's careful to plot her course, pacing the banks of elevators before choosing the right one. She will look up and consider the various floors, the various possibilities. Other times, she just darts inside.
The woman [...]

Officer Harris takes the escalator up to the third floor inside D.C. Superior Court. He then does what all officers must do every morning in the courthouse: check in on his case. He walks over to courtroom 321 and scans the printout case list taped to the door. His case is there.
It's almost 9 a.m. [...]

"I don't want to go in this motherfucker."
Frank is standing in a grassy corner at the edge of the D.C. Superior Court entrance. He stares down at the steady rush of people waiting to be checked through the security entrance. He is wearing designer shades, a designer beige knit cap, and clean jeans cuffed at [...]

A father of twin boys filed a class-action lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court against WASA over the lead warning foul up, the Washington Post is reporting. John Parkhurst's two boys, the Post writes, "now 8, were toddlers when lead spiked to dangerous levels in the city's drinking water from 2001 to 2004. They now have [...]

George Washington University is raising its notoriously high tuition. We are gonna have to update our story on the institution. Can someone please explain to me what GW is known for? Is it really worth the money? It can't possibly be worth money.

I wanted to see if there was an update posted on William Van Croft–the missing boy the D.C. Police were so late in spreading the word on. When I tried the department's website, I just got this:
"The website is currently offline for maintenance.  It will be back online shortly.  We apologize for any inconvenience this [...]

Is it just me or is the case against Miguel Tejada a bit small? The former Orioles standout obviously doesn't think so. Tejada just pled guilty to lying to Congress. According to the Post account: "Federal prosecutors alleged that Tejada lied to staffers when he told them he never discussed steroids with other players and [...]