Metro Section: Thank You For Not Smoking
* As goes the nation, so goes D.C.: the smoking ban went into effect today. [ Head-Case Briefs ; Ask KAC ]
* Tom DeLay: leaving Congress, but not Washington. Lucky us. [ DCeiver ]
* Chris Graff, the veteran Vermont journalist whose firing has generated a public outrcy, is the father of Washington journalist Garrett Graff (of the Washingtonian and FishBowl DC ). [ Big Head Rob ; WP ]
* This counts as local news, since he lives in SilverSpringsSpring: Brian Doyle, deputy press secretary at the DHS, was arrested on charges of using the internet to seduce an individual he thought was a 14-year-old girl. [ WP ; CNN ; Wonkette ; Sploid ]
(Yeah, we know we just blogged about Brian Doyle. But you'll probably be hearing a lot about him around here, so you might as well get used to it.)