- More details on the fire at Takoma Education Campus which we mentioned earlier today — D.C. Public Schools says that damage was “significant” and that students will need to be relocated while the school is repaired, while Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser announced that some firefighters may have suffered “minor injuries” battling the blaze. The school houses about 260 students.
- Alexandria’s City Council has approved the establishment of a special tax district, revenue from which will fund construction of a new infill Metro station.
- DDOT streetcar maven Scott Kubly is thinking about running in the upcoming special election to fill Kwame Brown’s at-large Council seat, reports Mike DeBonis.
- City Desk gets a pair of academics on the record who try to explain what “Excited Delirium Associated With Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Anomalies, Alcohol Intoxication and Physical Exertion With Restraint” actually means for the Ali Ahmed Mohammed/DC9 case. Verdict: it’s still incredibly murky.
- The 42 notes that the 18th Street NW streetscape project is underway.
- Mayor-elect Vince Gray made another round of appointments this afternoon, including De’Shawn A. Wright, a former Cory Booker advisor, as the new Deputy Mayor for Education.
- The University of the District of Columbia is planning to offer two-year bachelor’s degrees to recent grads of DCPS schools, “one of the quickest BA degrees in academia,” according to the Post.
- Presented without context: a bunch of National Zoo habitats made of gingerbread.
- Sky reports: “[I]t is still widely thought that Adrian Fenty lost his job in part because of his administration’s response to two huge snow storms.” (News to us!)
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