Morning Rundown
Capitol Hill Neighbors Upset About Rats Near Spike Mendelsohn Restaurants — Residents of C Street SE complain that three restaurants owned by Spike Mendelsohn, The Eatery, We the Pizza and Bearnaise, are attracting rats to the neighborhood with poor trash and grease disposal practices. [Capitol Hill Corner]
Stretch of 11th Street NE Renamed to Honor Woman Killed by Car While Leaving Church — A stretch of 11th Street NE next to the New Samaritan Baptist Church on Florida Avenue NE was renamed Ruby Whitfield Way in honor of a member of the church who was stuck and killed by a car while leaving the church in 2013. [WTOP]
A Look Into the Lives of Seven Interns Living Together on Capitol Hill — Seven Hill interns with the Running Start Fellowship bridge their political differences to live together in a row house on Capitol Hill. [MSNBC]
H Street NE Eatery DC Harvest Shakes Up Its Cocktail Menu — DC Harvest on the H Street corridor hired a new bar manager, Matthew Fisk, who is shaking up the cocktail menu with more international ingredients. [District Cuisine]
Changes at Hill Now — Hill Now editor Andrew Ramonas is moving to Borderstan where he will be a co-editor. Sean Meehan, who has written for Borderstan and Hill Now since August, will be taking over as interim editor at Hill Now.