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• Still no deal between Metro and the Belgian bank seeking to collect $43 million from the transit agency. [WaPo]
• “One of two men arrested for assaulting a gay man in Georgetown pleaded guilty Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court to two charges, including felony assault with bias intent.” [Washington Blade]
• More trouble with the Capital Gains program in DCPS, this time at tumultuous Hart Middle School: “It now turns out that, rather than encouraging students to get serious about school, the program might actually have deepened the dysfunction at Hart. Webster and two Hart teachers say that on the program’s first payday (Oct. 17) some misbehaving students got checks while others who played by the rules were shut out.” [D.C. Wire]
• Prince of Petworth is celebrating his two-year anniversary tonight at Wonderland. Congrats, yer majesty!
• Or swing by the fundraiser that Jimmy Valentine’s Lonely Hearts Club is hosting to raise money that will go directly to benefit an underfunded after school program at Webb Elementary. 6 to 9 p.m. [Frozen Tropics]
• If a tree disappears in Penn Quarter, does anyone notice? [Penn Quarter Living]