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- Gothamist has the entire play-by-play on today’s bizarrely unannounced mock Air Force One flyby of the Manhattan skyline. The White House has since apologized for not alerting the public beforehand.
- The Catania v. Whitman-Walker showdown keeps getting uglier, writes Tim Craig in the WaPo.
- Frozen Tropics reports on a car vs. Checker Auto Parts store incident on H Street NE, also involving some residents sitting on their porch: “A friend who ran over to check it out reported that it was difficult to say if the two men were seriously injured (or just jolted) due to their level of intoxication.”
- SWDC Blog is fed up with unsafe pedestrian conditions on 6th Street SW.
- NotionsCapital wonders how Mayor Fenty’s street lamp “user fee” could be applied to blind D.C. residents.
- ICYMI: New WaPo ombudsman is spearheading a plan to finally print a backlog of five years worth of corrections.
- Over at The Root, Dayo Olopade reports that the White House Office of Urban Policy is slow to get off the ground and appears to have been downgraded in its importance, raising questions about how effectively stimulus monies will be distributed to cities.
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