Columbia could impose a 'tort tax' (Belleville News-Democrat)
After a round of bone-deep budget cuts, Columbia City Administrator Anthony Traxler is pondering whether to ask the City Council to impose a "tort tax" on property owners to help pay for a federal lawsuit over the stalled $200 million Columbia Crossing project.

District Businesses Benefit from Hi-Tech Partnership Between TechAssist and the DC Chamber of Commerce (Centre Daily Times)
This month, the DC Chamber of Commerce and TechAssist announced the formation of a strategic partnership which aims to provide access to technology for small and medium-sized businesses in the District of Columbia.

Party lines: Who toes, who sways? (The Salt Lake Tribune)
WASHINGTON - As much as they agree, Orrin Hatch and John McCain have had their moments on opposite sides.     Hatch backed adding a House member for the District of Columbia and one for Utah; McCain didn't.

Guns, 'speculators,' and toady legislators (Journal Inquirer)
Critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of the District of Columbia's ordinance prohibiting the private possession of firearms stress the qualifying phrase of the Second Amendment.

Go Home Already: There She Is (DCist)
Photo of the Mrs. District of Columbia/Mrs. Maryland pageant on June 25 in Frederick, Md. by IntangibleArts Drivers in Washington, D.C. average one accident every 5.4 years, giving them the most dangerous collective driving record in the country. [ AP via WUSA ] On the Brookland neighborhood email list, one resident shares how a D.C. 311 operator suggested she develop some CSI ...