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• D.C. to NYC transplant Whitney Matheson lists 51 things she misses about the District over at PopCandy.
• A local inaugural ball you can afford: the District’s 51st State Inaugural Ball at the Wilson Building is set for Jan. 20, via D.C. Wire. Hopefully it’s more fun than Mayor Fenty’s Inaugural Ball was.
• If shouting ‘O’ during “The Star Spangled Banner” at Orioles games is now legal, can we please, please stop shouting it at Nationals games? You guys realize it’s an Orioles thing, right?
• A man was arrested for an alleged attempt to run over a Montgomery County police officer with his car during a traffic stop. How do you not guess you probably won’t get away with that?
• One of the new why.i.hate.dc bloggers found a pretty hilarious typo on the Anacostia High School web site.
• There was a small fire at the Terrell Place complex at 575 7th St NW this afternoon. Penn Quarter Living reports.
• Oh yeah, and some former football player got convicted of something or other today.