Good morning, Washington. WTOP’s Mark Segraves has dug up records that show that Mayor Adrian Fenty has spent about $50,000 on travel and other expenses for himself, a number of aides and a security detail while the mayor was on the road campaigning for Sen. Barack Obama. It’s not at all strange for Fenty to be out on the campaign trail for Obama, but Segraves makes the point that most sitting politicians make sure not to charge their constituent taxpayers for their expenses on such trips. Also interesting: that Fenty took ten police officers and three detectives with him on these trips for his security detail, when he normally just drives himself around D.C. without any security. Fenty declined to comment on WTOP’s story until he had more time to review the expense reports in question.

Metro Area Foreclosure Rates Growing Rapidly: Remember a while back when we kept hearing that the D.C. Metro area wasn’t being hit as hard as other major cities by the mortgage crisis? Well, now we are. The Washington region now has one of the fastest-growing foreclosure rates in the nation, with 15,613 homes having gone into foreclosure during the one-year period ending in February, reports the Post. That gain represents a sixfold increase in foreclosures, the highest increase in the rate of foreclosures of any metro area in the country for that time period.

MoCo Water Advisory Lifted: The advisory to boil drinking water in most of Montgomery County north of the Beltway has now been lifted. Tests found no evidence of contamination after a large water main broke on Sunday night. Officials are recommending that people run their taps for five minutes, and discard any ice from automatic ice-makers the next three times you get a new batch of ice, before cleaning the ice-maker with bleach.

Briefly Noted: Variable speed limit system to be set up on Capital Beltway … Teen sues D.C. for $10 million, says city put her in clinic where she was raped … Alexandria to hike towing fees 26 percent … Federal judge rules inauguration arrests were illegal.

This Day in DCist: In 2007 there were major delays on the Green line, and in 2006 we were hating on Rachel Ray and Bobby Flay, who were both in town that day.

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