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- With Mayor Fenty mysteriously out of town and City Administrator Dan Tangherlini on vacay, who was in charge today? Michael Neibauer says it was Deputy Mayor for Education Victor Reinoso. Also of note: the mayor’s public schedule is once again empty tomorrow, a good sign he’s not coming back from wherever he is before the weekend.
- Nobody likes change, most especially D.C. area parents who couldn’t score tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll online today. Among the lucky ones: ABC 7 News Assignment Editor Aja Hogg.
- The Get There blog has updates from today’s Metro board meeting: the D.C. contingent was responsible for rejecting any fare increases, so now the board will ask for public comment on its proposed list of service cuts.
- A victory for death penalty opponents: the Maryland House of Delegates voted 87 to 52 today to approve new restrictions on death penalty cases in the state.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton is reminding D.C. residents that time is running out to get the last batch DTV converter box coupons.
- Getting down to the nitty gritty on budget sifting stories. D.C. Wire says the mayor is proposing saving the city $25,000 in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner by cremating the city’s unidentified dead instead of burying them.
