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- Metro is considering charging for parking in its parking lots on the weekends, reports WTOP.
- Mayor Fenty went ahead and named Roque Gerald permanent director of the Child and Family Services Agency today, reports the Post. Gerald had been serving as interim director since Sharlynn Bobo resigned in the wake of the Banita Jacks case.
- D.C. isn’t the only city with horny red pandas—Philly has its own new stud. Was there some kind of massive red panda sale last week we missed?
- You still have a little time to make it over to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities open house tonight, where citizens are invited to share their thoughts on Public Art in your neighborhoods.
- The Washington Business Journal reports that the Washington Convention Center Authority has assembled a team of underwriters to manage its $134 million contribution to the center’s headquarters hotel, slated to open in 2012.
- Don’t forget about tomorrow’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the D.C. Voting Rights Act. It’s set for 10 a.m. in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
- Former Redskin Mel Kaufman died Monday in California. He was 50 years old.
