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- WMATA is in the middle of running a three-day safety training seminar on current right-of-way procedures, following the recent close call when Tri-State Oversight Committee inspectors were down on the tracks. Catoe says the session will focus on “what needs to happen to make our right-of-way a safer place for our employees.”
- Roll Call (subscription only) offers an update on the state of the D.C. House Voting Rights Act. “Voting rights advocates agree that the legislation needs to pass this year or it risks disappearing altogether.”
- City Desk outlines how the deposition of a shockingly unprepared witness facing possible perjury charges in one of the Pershing Park cases totally fell apart.
- New local politics blog alert: D.C. Libertarian Party leader Pete Orvetti has launched De Re Publica, which he confesses to DCist has ended up being mostly about D.C. politics “despite my intentions.” One post takes a look at Fenty as “The Imperial Mayor.”
- Most of the broadcast outlets are running some version of this AP story about a Rembrandt painting now on display at Catholic University that had been originally found hidden in a bathroom cabinet.
- Count me in the #TeamConan camp.
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