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- D.C. Wire’s got the play-by-play on Mayor Fenty’s budget presentation before the D.C. Council today. Lots of posturing between Fenty and Gray, plus note Fenty’s sudden backpedaling over “outcry” to recent large parking meter fee increases: “Probably, to be honest with you, we’re going to have to look at going back or reducing,” Fenty said.
- Congress Heights on the Rise has images of the other fire on a D.C. school campus on Sunday, at Turner/Green Elementary School (1500 Mississippi Avenue SE).
- We already reported that the Washington Post won four Pulitzer Prizes today, but local shoutouts should also go to drama winner Next to Normal, which workshopped at Arena Stage before heading to Broadway, and general nonfiction winner David E. Hoffman, a former Postie, for his book, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy.
- JDLand covers CSX blogger briefing on plans for the Virginia Ave. Tunnel.
- Rite Aid is now accepting EBT cards/SNAP food stamps, via Susie Cambria.
- Roll Call profiles Dangerously Delicious Pies, which is at last up and running on H Street NE.
