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- Over at HuffPo, DCist alum Jason Linkins offers a hilarious takedown of Rep. Mark Souder’s suggestion that the atmosphere here in D.C. contributed to him cheating on his wife. ‘This is all coming to light, thanks to the resignation of America’s Prince of Abstinence Education Mark Souder, who was caught in the District’s sexy trap. He makes this glancingly clear in the retina-searing all-caps section of his resignation note, which will be remembered as this century’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail,” where “Birmingham” is “Washington” and “Jail” is “my part-time aide’s vagina.”‘
- WTOP covers the groundbreaking for a brand new, $400,000 dog park over at Wisconsin Ave. and Newark Street.
- Among First lady Michelle Obama’s guests at tonight’s state dinner for Mexican president Felipe Calderón: Maria Gomez from Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care; Lindsey Buss of Martha’s Table; and Scott Schenkelberg of Miriam’s Kitchen. Robin Givhan runs down the local non-profit leaders’ excitement at being included.
- More First lady relating to locals news, this time in Silver Spring, where Obama was visiting the New Hampshire Estates Elementary School. While there, a 2nd grader admitted to the first lady that her mother was an illegal immigrant. The school is keeping it classy and refusing to release the girl’s identity or that of her family.
- New Columbia Heights takes note of a new farmer’s market that will soon start at Howard University on Tuesdays and Fridays.
