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- Unitarian Universalist minister Scott Wells thinks Mayor Fenty is making a big mistake by holding his gay marriage signing ceremony tomorrow inside a church. “… it’s precisely by conflating religious and civil marriage that gays lose in the public sphere.”
- Despite seemingly all odds, Metrobus drivers were assaulted less often this year, the Examiner reports. We’re guessing bus riders have finally learned something from McGruff the Crime Dog.
- Ah yes, a new request for proposals on redeveloping the Dupont Down Under space. Surely, actual concrete plans that will really happen will be shortly forthcoming. Plans for this space always work out.
- Metro! They have serious money problems. Ever more serious, in fact. But what else is new.
- More chestnuts for the holidays: coverage of the most recent Klingle Valley Trail meeting from Greater Greater Washington. Will there be meetings about Klingle Valley until kingdom come? Maybe! But at least they’re not talking about re-opening it as a road anymore.
- Susie Cambria has a list of recent MPD promotions.
