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  • Aside from Bible study, there was a lot going on inside the John A. Wilson Building today — Tommy Wells’ homeless residency requirement passed, as did the tax break for the Adams Morgan boutique hotel. More on both of those from Lydia DePillis and Michael Neibauer.
  • Council Chair-elect Kwame Brown, who ceremonially took the gavel from Vince Gray at the closure of today’s legislative session, will apparently follow Gray’s lead and keep the Council’s education committee under his purview.
  • Donovan McNabb says he wants to stay with the Redskins. Well, duh. If your two options were getting released and having to play for Arizona next season or backing up Rex Grossman and making a ton of cash doing it, which would you choose?
  • D.C. has won a million dollar federal grant to evaluate streetcar and bus technology.
  • Three Stafford County students were taken to the hospital after overdosing on some kind of recreational drug inside the Holocaust Museum this morning.
  • Some students at a Haymarket, Virginia high school were punished after the school said that miniature candy canes they were tossing to other students were “weapons because you can sharpen them with your mouth and stab people with them.”
  • Take note! The Circulator will not be operating on Christmas Day.
  • The Daily Caller declares that “TBD.com is gay. Very, very gay.”