City Desk » Pigs http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:36:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Photo: Piglets http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/09/20/photo-piglets/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/09/20/photo-piglets/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:23:19 +0000 Matt Dunn http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=79952

Frederick County Fair, Sept. 18th.  © 2011 Matt Dunn

]]> http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/09/20/photo-piglets/feed/ 0 The Palin Tanning Bed Scandal! http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/09/15/the-palin-tanning-bed-scandal/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/09/15/the-palin-tanning-bed-scandal/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:01:28 +0000 Jason Cherkis http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=6748 TPM brings a nice fun scoop from the Palin beat. The Alaskan Governor/Hockey Mom had a tanning bed installed in the governor's mansion:

"On the campaign trail, Sarah Palin likes to brag about how she put the Alaska state jet on eBay and fired the governor's personal chef. One item that doesn't appear in her stump speech, however, is the personal tanning bed Palin had installed in the governor's mansion.

This morning NarcoNews reported that that a tanning bed had been installed in the governor's official residence in 2007, sourcing a Department of Transportation employee familiar with renovations at the mansion. This evening, Politico's Ben Smith reported that Palin had paid for the tanning bed with her own money.

Now, Palin's own gubernatorial spokesman Bill McCallister has confirmed to TPMmuckraker that a tanning bed had been installed in the governor's official residence in 2007, and that it wasn't paid for with state funds."

In other pressing news, McCain finally admits he didn't think Obama really called Palin a pig.

Meanwhile, I heard the stock market tanked today.

]]> http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/09/15/the-palin-tanning-bed-scandal/feed/ 5 The Last Word on Pigs, Lipstick http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/09/11/the-last-word-on-pigs-lipstick/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/09/11/the-last-word-on-pigs-lipstick/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:03:17 +0000 Jason Cherkis http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=6693 Maybe this is the last word on pigs. Or this. Or this. Or this. Let's hope that today brings zero talk of pigs and lipstick.

Let's hope Charlie Gibson actually asks Sarah Palin some tough questions.

Update: 2:16 a.m. WSJ has a bit of breaking news on that troopergate scandal.

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