>> So Mayor Fenty and Schools Chancellor Rhee have scheduled 23 simultaneous school closure hearings at each of the proposed 23 schools to be closed. Logistics nightmare questions aside, what is a parent who has a child at more than one of the schools supposed to do? Pick which child they think is more important? [WaPo]

>> The D.C. government has scheduled another gun amnesty buy-back on Saturday, only two weeks after the last one. Nothing says Christmas like gettin’ rid of your gun. [City Desk]

>> Breakwell’s coffee shop has reopened after a fire forced it closed in September. And the fire was perhaps not caused by kids playing with fireworks, as the buildings occupants originally told us? [Intangible Arts]

>> Thieves posing as cops are stealing women’s purses in Silver Spring. [WTOP]

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