Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

The Washington Business Journal reported on Wednesday that a new report indicates the recession actually ended in the first quarter of 2009 in the greater D.C. area. The economic report, compiled by Delta Associates and George Mason University Professor Stephen Fuller, points to relatively low unemployment across the metro area as a whole, and presumably there’s evidence of growth in the overall region’s economy. That’s great! But it’s a little tough to get too excited when the District of Columbia, taken by itself, just posted its highest unemployment figures ever. Obviously, D.C. doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and its economy is deeply entwined with that of the nearby Maryland and Virginia suburbs, but … it doesn’t exactly feel like the recession ended months ago, does it?

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