Daily Five: Stupid Tattoo Day, 2014 Budget, Niels Ebbesen

1. Sunny and warm today, with a high temperature of 55 degrees. Increasing clouds and possible evening showers later on, with an overnight low of 31 degrees. Sunrise is 6:31 a.m., sunset is 7:14 p.m.

2. Mayor Daryl Finizio will present his proposed 2014 fiscal year budget and give the “State of the City” address at 6 p.m. tonight at City Hall. Other meetings tonight include the Public Welfare Committee, which meets at 5 p.m. for a second public hearing on Community Development Block Grant funding allocations, and the regular City Council meeting, which meets at 7 p.m. with an agenda including correspondence on the donation of city land for the National Coast Guard Museum, the awarding of a contract for Calkins Park renovations, and an executive session on potential litigation involving the removal of portable classrooms at Veterans Field.

3. Spirit Gallery celebrates Stupid Tattoo Day today. Learn more about this tradition and their specials at an event posting by the gallery.

4. Whether it’s about your tattoo experience or an opinion on city government or just about anything else, we welcome blog entries from our readers. Visit the Local Voices section to see what’s been submitted and add your own.

5. A decapitation earned Niels Ebbesen status as a Danish hero on this day in 1340. Ebbesen led a raid into the bedroom of Count Gerhard III, ending an interregnum in Denmark and ultimately the German occupation of much of the country.

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