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Happy New Year, DCist readers! We'll be back on our regular schedule tomorrow, just as soon as our heads stop pounding. In the meantime, here's a quick look at the few local news stories from today.
- Two babies were born locally at 12:01 a.m.: one, a boy, at Washington Hospital Center and another, also a boy, at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, reports WTOP.
- Three adults and two children died early this morning in a house fire in Brookland, reports the Post. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but authorities believe it began in the basement.
- The Examiner uses the slow news day to take the District to task for continuing to pay rent on the former Washington Star printing plant at 225 Virginia Ave. SE.
- Three of four $1 million winners from Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle were sold locally, in Alexandria or Arlington.
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Those winners weren't from the real Virgina... how were they allowed to win??!
I wonder what happens when kids are born @ 12:01 and it's to a 13-year-old mother. Or if the kid has fetal alcohol syndrome or is a downy baby. Do the news outlets report on it just the same?
For the first baby, WTOP mentions the weight/length and the husband; for the second, they mention neither and have a quote about respecting the family's privacy.
For all we know, the second was a down baby with FAS born to a 13-year-old mother.
The LLC quickly entered into a 60-year lease with Washington Telecom Associates, which had plans, at the height of the dot-com boom, to transform the property into a secure data center. But the bubble burst and the building remained vacant. The city subleased the facility in late 2006 from Washington Telecom Associates for $6.5 million a year.
So they're blowing half a million a month in rent on a property that they have no plans on developing. Well, at least DC's in on a 60 year lease in stead of the standard 99 year lease. That's 39 years of payments on an unused property that DC taxpayers aren't making! You're saving millions in this deal! Or something.
Where else are DC's evil scientists supposed to conduct their chud-morlock cross-breeding experiments? The basement of Twatwaffles?