The Washington Post:
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier yesterday suspended the checkpoint program that screened people driving into the troubled Trinidad neighborhood, acting after a night that left eight people shot at six locations elsewhere in the city.
Officials have not ruled out setting up checkpoints in Trinidad and other areas in the future, but there […]

Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond police are investigating photographs posted on a California-based Web site that show uniformed patrolmen cavorting with young women outside nightclubs.
The officers were unaware that they were posing for photos that were to be posted on the Web site, acting Sgt. Marian L. Harris said in a news release about the investigation. The officers […]

Thanks to “kcw” for the comments on a previous post. Here are the closures for Saturday’s race.Tomorrow, the Rappahannock Regional Soap Box Derby will roll through Fredericksburg again.To ensure the safety of the drivers, roads near the track will be b…

First he kicks off his general election campaign here in the commonwealth, now this.
Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central:
The campaign says that they’re sending Mitch Stewart, one of Obama’s star organizers, into the state to serve as Virginia’s state director. This is no small thing. Stewart served as Obama’s Iowa caucus director, where he was […]

I’ve finally found out what’s wrong with me (well, at least one thing). From Wired Magazine: WTF!? Internet Addiction Nominated for Entry in the Manual of Mental Disorders. That’s it, I now have an excuse for ignoring the wife and the dog, for staying …

The Fredericksburg Area Brewing and Tasting Society holds its monthly meeting this Saturday, June 14 at 1:30 PM. Please join us at Kybecca on Plank Rd. The theme for this month is “Summer Beers”. There are also a few interesting free tastings being hel…

The Examiner reports that Fenty and Lanier will continue their unconstitutional military-style checkpoints for the time being.
Meanwhile outside the “Red Zone” (the Trinidad neighborhood), in what I would guess you would call the “Green Zone”, at least eight people were shot and wounded (luckily, no fatalities), including a 12 year-old boy and a 19 year-old […]

They finally posted the list of bands for Bluemont in Fredericksburg http://www.bluemont.org/Concerts/Fredericksburg.html(c)2008 InTheBurg.info

Biggest event this weekend is going to be the 5th annual soap box derby. Check out all the details here: http://fredericksburg.com/community/features/soapboxderby . If you want to get out on the river, Friends of the Rappahannock is having a canoe flo…

We got a bonanza of produce at the Spotsylvania Farmer’s Market on Saturday, almost all of the veggies we needed for the week, and pretty enough to take a picture. Two kinds of lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cukes, tomatoes (greenhouse), cilantro, new p…