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- The New Gay asks straight people at the High Heel Race whether they’re there laughing with the gays, or at them. The answer? Maybe a little of both.
- Huffington Post shares the Allbritton memo on the new Jim Brady-helmed local D.C. news web site, which will merge “the current WJLA.com and News8.net websites into a site whose aim is to set a new standard for media coverage of local news, with a staff of more than 50 people.”
- Maryland has confirmed two more H1N1-related deaths, the Post reports. The cases involved “two adults from the Baltimore area who apparently had no underlying medical conditions.”
- Street Sense explores why some local homeless people choose to stay on the streets instead of going to a shelter. “The homeless of D.C. have ended up on the streets, because of the problems that they have encountered at shelters, according to homeless people living on the streets.”
- The New York Times takes a look at a federal study aimed at D.C. and the Bronx that will attempt to find out whether routinely testing virtually every adult in a community for HIV and then promptly treating those found to be infected can even be done.
- Congress Heights on the Rise notes today’s grand opening of the new Parklands-Turner Library.
