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Good morning, Washington. Today brings news in the seemingly never-ending (and consistently entertaining) saga of Sinclair Skinner, first frat-brother to the Fenty administration. The Examiner is reporting that Peter Nickles, city AG and longtime associate of Mayor Fenty, delayed the addition of Skinner to the list of contractors excluded from doing business with the city. This delay gave Skinner time to respond and further draw the process out. Nickles says that he was just making sure the city followed the laws surrounding the debarment process, but an unnamed source is cited as saying that Nickles had never intervened in the process before.

Council Can’t Rehire Teachers: Also in the Examiner: news that Harry Thomas, Jr.’s legislation to rehire the teachers that were laid off by Michelle Rhee — due to a possible budget shortfall, the existence or nonexistence of which can only be expressed as a superposed quantum wave function — is going nowhere. It turns out that the council doesn’t have the authority to bring the affected educators back on board, leaving DCPS’s lawsuit as their only hope for reinstatement.

UMd. Surveillance Tape Surfaces With Minutes Missing: WJLA is reporting on a strange omission in College Park. Lawyers acting on behalf of Jack McKenna, the Maryland student beaten by university police, had been seeking footage from surveillance cameras in the vicinity of the incident. Discs for all the relevant cameras were found… except for one of the discs from the camera that would have captured the incident. Then, a couple of hours later, that disc turned up… with two minutes missing. Worse, the officer in charge of the video system is married to one of the officers named in McKenna’s complaint. Campus police are acknowledging that this all looks really, really bad, and have asked the Maryland State Police to investigate what happened.

Briefly Noted: Post says student carjacking his teacher was coincidental and that she sustained two stab wounds… Teacher’s aide accused of assaulting developmentally disabled student… Suspicious package at Sen. Webb’s Richmond office… Local Catholic priest removed over allegations of past misbehavior with young women while stationed in Germany… Graham proposes 10 cent gas tax to help fund Metro… Boy struck by car in N.E.…

This Day In DCist: One year ago Washingtonian ran a cover with a shirtless president and the Social Safeway announced it would be closing for its recently-completed renovations.