Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

>> New Police Chief Cathy Lanier on being a woman in the Metropolitan Police Dept.: “Lanier says she wants to tell her story so it will help other women who face similar challenges. She describes how she faced a constant barrage of sexual harassment when she first came on the force in 1990. ‘I’ve had police officers expose themselves to me riding around in a patrol car. {I was} assigned with a training officer who would pull up into a dark park and.. you know.'” [WTOP]

>> A question for the ages: What neighborhood isn’t historic in the District? [In Shaw]

>> But if we change D.C. cabs to meters, establish an effective taxicab commission, and create order out of chaos in Adams Morgan, what will we have left to whine about? [Rock Creek Rambler]

>> The Yellow Line extension is really coming! And yes, you can expect frothing-at-the-mouth posts from us on this for weeks to come. [WJLA]

>> Our own InfoLeafGuy has his Best Shows of 2006 list up. Commence with diatribes and name calling in 5, 4, 3 … [Information Leafblower]

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