Happy Leap Day, that day that comes around once each four years to prolong the suck that is February!
District Property Assessments up 7% in 2007
Congratulations DC! Despite the mortgage lender crises, housing starts on the decline and all manner of other market-depressing factors, your assessed values according to the Revenue office went up 7% last year! Be sure to pay your property tax online promptly to help overcome the $96M deficit we talked about earlier this week.
Maryland Cuts Blue Crab Harvest
There will be less of your amazingly tasty blue crabs harvested this year, so expect prices to take a hike at area crab shacks for a bushel of these tasty crustaceans. Please also take a moment to chuckle politely at the headline writer at WJLA.com, who forgot that it’s “because”. Not “becuase”. Go on. Feel superior.
Wait, that’s against the law? I thought it was a perq!
Turns out the deputy director of the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections has been fired for impersonating a Fairfax County law enforcement officer. She’s been charged in Fairfax County for the infraction. Seriously, what situation makes you feel that’s appropriate?
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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