METRO SECTION DC: Now Hobo- and Joe Biden-Friendlier Than Ever!
The DC police are putting together a book with the 60 most notorious youth offenders so that people in-the-know will be kept abreast of these kids in the rosy-fingered dawn of their careers or something. It too has tenuous privacy implications, just like actual Facebook. [Washington Post]
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Powerful fat cat Vice President Joe Biden went to Union Station and pledged $1.3 billion to Amtrak, his pet socialist work project, in addition to the billions of his own money he’s already given them. [DC Examiner]
Heads up if you were planning on doing anything in DC other than drinking on St. Patrick’s Day: that option is no longer possible. [WTOP]
Your Mayor Fenty is making it easier for you to adjust to your new life as a local out-of-work street vagabond by extending unemployment benefits. [BizJournals via DCist]
Big changes afoot for the Washington Post: the paper will be switching from printing a daily business section to just a Sunday business section — business news now goes in the A section Monday through Saturday. And they’re taking away one of two crossword puzzles and making some comics online-only. [Fishbowl DC]
Wonkette
A memo obtained by FBDC announces that WaPo will kill one crossword, some comics will move to Web, weekly biz section will become daily page in front section…
Also, in conjunction with taking on blihering idiots William Kristol and Michael Gerson (whose mom still cuts his hair), Jim Cramer will now be offering stock tips.
I think crossword puzzles are lame, but I would have never thought that cutting them is cornerstone to a newspaper’s turnaround strategy
How many of the 60 top youth offenders will make it into office?
Biden’s just giving that money to Amtrak to make Platinum level of their frequent traveler program. Plus, that mean conductor will stop bothering to check his expired ticket