Winter is coming (for the weekend) a month early, while &pizza quibbles with @pizza, the Shay loses yet another tenant, the National Park Service wants to ban sports from the National Mall, and other news of the day over in the District.
- A strong cold front arrives to freeze over the weekend. [WTOP]
- Bad Saint gets more good reviews. [Eater]
- Cory Booker has strong feelings about D.C. statehood. [Twitter]
- Beware these blocks: the District’s busiest speed and red light cameras. [WUSA9]
- ANCs most definitely have some things to say about dockless bikes. [Current]
- What a revamped C&O Canal might look like. [Current]
- The days of sports and other recreational activities on the National Mall may be numbered. [Post]
- A rocket launch will be visible from D.C. (and most of the mid-Atlantic) on Saturday. [CWG]
- High school and college students stormed the Capitol to demand a “Clean Dream Act.” [Post]
- Ward 4 councilmember wants to lower D.C. Water fee for cemeteries and other institutions struggling to pay. [NBC4]
- &pizza says the UK’s @pizza is an “unremorseful and unauthorized copycat”. [WBJ]
- Dupont’s Thomas Nelson Page House changes hands. [WBJ]
- This is happening. [Post]
- From a familiar byline: The Shay’s Chrome store is packing it in. [Washingtonian]
- Southwest’s The Bard development gets a new architectural script. [UrbanTurf]
- Folks are, quite understandably, concerned about shootings near schools in Southeast. [WJLA]
- About that urine throwing incident on the X2… the suspect was sentenced to 120 days in jail. [WJLA]
- Neighbors fight to stop alley building from being restored into a house. [GGW]
- Walter Reed kicks out program that provides service dogs to veterans, apparently out of the blue. [WTOP]