Go Home Already: Take Off

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• Is one man's trash another man's art installation? [Penn Quarter Living]
• One blogger sees racism from customers at Barnes and Noble. "People would rather go through Hell's fury than sit at the table next to me. Some are even afraid to sit at the table behind me or in front of me." [The Anacostia Diaries Blog]
• Lost in the Supreme Court shuffle this morning: The Rand Corp. has issued a report suggesting the District should spend $90 million of tobacco settlement money to expand primary and urgent health care through community health centers in the city's underserved areas. [WaPo]
• The Metro Board approved a new $1.9 billion budget today that includes $21 million in service and security improvements for Metrorail, Metrobus and MetroAccess. [WaPo]
• The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife are giving $15 million to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History. [AP via WUSA]
• Robert Rice, a former interim superintendent of the D.C. public schools and former education official in Maryland, has died. He was 69. [AP via WTOP]