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  • Oh. Dear. Apparently some local non-profits have started getting calls from MTV about placing their D.C. castmembers as volunteers. Who wants a bunch of useless summer help? (+ TV cameras!) [Fishbowl DC]
  • Looks like a deal is shaping up for the Contention Center Hotel that doesn’t involve looting other city projects and should cost the city much less than first feared. [WashBizJo]
  • Dan Froomkin is out at the Washington Post, White House Watch blog kaput. [Politico]
  • An elderly Vienna man is dead after an altercation with his Verizon technician. [WaPo]
  • NPR, while profiling zucchini blossoms, makes a visit to the Bloomingdale farmer’s market. [NPR]