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- The Examiner reports that the House unanimously agreed last week to let the District draft its own version of the Hatch Act, which could theoretically free up ANC commissioners from rules that force them to resign their seats before they start campaigning for another office.
- From the upcoming Robert Wone conspiracy trial: The BLT reports that D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg is skeptical of prosecutors’ arguments that Wone was injected with a paralytic drug before he was killed, citing a lack of hard evidence.
- Attention pie lovers: Frozen Tropics says that the owners of the soon to open Dangerously Delicious Pies on H Street will offer lifetime discounts to anyone who gets a tattoo of the company’s logo, which is a pie with crossbones. Our question is: how big does the logo have to be?
- A homeless man was found dead near the Bethesda Metro station this morning, via WaPo.
- D.C. Housing Authority Director Michael Kelly will step down at the end of the month, says the WashBizJo.
- Susie Cambria posts Leo Alexander’s announcement that he will run for mayor against Adrian Fenty. Longtime residents may remember Alexander as a former reporter for NBC4/WRC-TV in the 1990s. More recently he has worked as Vice President for Marketing and Public Affairs for DC General Hospital.
- An update on the Central Union Mission’s plans for its Georgia Ave. property from Park View, D.C. and PoP.
