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- Eep. Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans says that the city can no longer afford to fund the mayor’s public schools reform efforts, and that the city must find a way to trim $50 million from the DCPS budget. Revised FY2010 budget proposals: let’s get ready to rumble! [WUSA9]
- More from John Catoe on the malfunctioning track sensors: “What our system has found is a little blip and as a result we are going in to find out what that was,” Catoe said. [WJLA]
- More on D.C. budget slashing: is D.C.’s social safety net in danger? [Beyond Bread]
- D.C.’s detox clinic manager has been arrested for double-billing the city government … “—getting paid by a contractor for the Child and Family Services Agency for mentoring kids during the same hours he was listing on his Department of Health timesheet. He is accused by authorities of doing this on no less than 116 occasions from October 2006 to February 2008.” [City Desk]
- The District’s charter schools will finally be getting the balance of their money from the city on Friday. [D.C. Wire]
- The owners of Local 16 are working on not one, but two new restaurants, one on 14th Street and another in Columbia Heights, tentatively named Table 14 and Barrio, respectively. [Metrocurean]
