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Good morning, Washington. Ahhhhhh! Swine flu! Panic! Fear! No, wait, everything’s fine. The Washington Post has a rundown on how our region is bracing itself in the event there’s an outbreak here of the silly sounding but potentially serious virus that’s claimed dozens of lives in Mexico and harmlessly infected a small number of private school kids in New York. If you’re looking for a way to laugh about the whole thing, just remember that college students who spent their spring breaks doing body shots and blow and randomly hooking up with strangers in Mazatlan are the most likely to be responsible for any future spread of the disease around the United States. And to think we always thought those kids would never amount to anything.

Fight Over Additional Parking Meter Revenue: The city has been busy updating all its parking meters over the last couple of months to comply with the D.C. Council’s decision to double rates, but no one knows yet what will be done with the revenue raised so far, Michael Neibauer reports. That’s because Mayor Fenty and the Council have yet to come to an agreement on whether the funds will be earmarked for certain low income housing and development projects, or whether they could be funneled into the general fund to help meet the ever-widening budget gap.

Woodson High Construction Delays Short but juicy piece from Bill Turque on how major delays in the reconstruction of Woodson High School have residents in the surrounding Ward 7 neighborhood convinced the city has turned its back on them already. Quick tip to Allen Lew: don’t tell newspaper reporters that the reason a major project is now a year behind schedule is because you just don’t find it “exciting.”

Briefly Noted: Boy, 11, presumed drowned after slipping and falling near the Chain Bridge … Greenpeace protesters hang big sign on downtown construction crane, tie up traffic on 23rd Street … No injuries reported in Northeast apartment building fire.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, we explored a Filipino market near AU.