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- Peaceaholics will shutter its Raleigh Place SE headquarters at the end of this month, WUSA9 reports, following a D.C. Council decision to cut its earmark from the city budget.
- City Desk’s Rend Smith covers the first funeral held for one of the South Capitol Street shooting victims. Tavon Nelson “was very intelligent, bright, respectful and helpful,” mourners said.
- Michael A. Brown and Mary Cheh unveiled the District’s expanded food stamp program at Bread for the City today, and D.C. Wire was there. “Under the bill, residents will no longer have to earn 130 percent of the poverty level or less to qualify for food stamps. Instead, residents who participate in other low-income assistance programs will automatically qualify for food stamps. … According to estimates from city officials, about 4,800 residents will now be eligible for food stamps who otherwise would not have been.”
- Old Town Alexandria is hoping to get a handle on the tour buses that often clog that city’s streets by making them apply for operating permits, says the Examiner. Something tells us they’ll get more applications than they have space.
- Tom Toles pokes fun at Vince Gray for having no campaign platform to speak of. He ain’t wrong.
- The DC Fiscal Policy Institure takes a first pass at who wins and who loses in Mayor Fenty’s budget proposal.
