Good morning, D.C. While you might still be finishing off the remnants of your Thanksgiving dinner, it’s important to note that there are some things to be eternally grateful for. For instance, if your friends and family haven’t experienced the kind of tragedies found in Robert E. Pierre’s profile of William Kellibrew. Pierre notes the staggeringly high levels of reported domestic abuse in the area — numbering in the tens of thousands locally and millions nationally — and that efforts to help deter domestic abuse have mostly consisted of smokescreens. Kellibrew, who has had episodes of devastating domestic violence bookend his life to this point, ends the piece with a call to proactive measures. We couldn’t agree more. The D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence keeps a large collection of contacts and agencies for everything from crisis hotlines to services for battered women to find safer living quarters — if you know someone who needs help, don’t hesitate.

Otherwise around the area this morning:

>> Michelle Rhee, Time cover girl. Oh, and she’s “somewhat terrified of what the Democrats are going to do on education.” (For those of you too wiped out from yesterday’s shopping to buy the glossy: here’s the full feature and cover.)

>> How do you start to clean up the Anacostia River? Work on its tributaries, of course: the Army Corps of Engineers are assessing about 170 small-scale projects on Sligo Creek in Montgomery County, hoping that an increase in fish populations and a decrease in sediment and refuse will lead to similar clean-up strategies for similar operations for the heavily polluted “Forgotten River” and the Chesapeake Bay as a whole.

>> A 21-year old former District resident has been brought into custody and charged with three homicides that occurred in the span five days between October 28 and November 1 in Prince George’s County.

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