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- D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Office of Campaign Finance, but in doing so, did OCF contradict itself?
- Michelle Obama to Condé Nast Traveler: “Kids in Anacostia should be taking up the spots in the page program on Capitol Hill. They should be the ones who get to intern at the White House. They should have equal access as well as the folks with power from all over the country. I think as more and more kids have those experiences they start to expand their sense of who they can be in the world. And if we can do that for kids here in D.C., we can do that for kids around the world who are coming to visit and walking up to that fence by the South Lawn and looking in that house and seeing a family, a president who connects to them in a fundamental way.”
- Who Murdered Robert Wone? has 120 pages of MPD interrogation transcripts from accused co-conspirator Joe Price’s initial interviews with detectives. Among the Price quotes: “This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.”
- The AP reports that Arlington’s crime rate dropped 3.7 percent in 2009 (via WAMU). Violent crime was down 8.3 percent.
- The 2009 documentary film Ballou, which follows the local high school’s award-winning marching band, is now available online for free in its entirety.
- Washington City Paper cover story digs into details of the 2+ year-old case of a Howard University student who was repeatedly denied the opportunity to secure a rape kit after she said she had been drugged and raped at an off-campus party.
- The District Curmedgeon makes a little headway on getting WASA to take another look at a persistent water leak in the 1600 block of Montello Ave.
