- Mike DeBonis got his hands on the audit conducted by the University of the District of Columbia into the expenses spent on its president, Allen Sessoms. The damage? 36 university-paid trips costing $58,444, most poorly documented. Also: Sessoms is pulling in a $25,000 bonus on top of a $295,000 salary and had a personal driver over four months in 2008 and 2009, the use of which cost the university $51,380.
- Mayor Gray’s administration tells Chief Cathy Lanier not to worry about the cuts to police staffing in his 2012 budget. In response, Lanier tells the post she’ll have to get “creative about prioritizing.”
- A school bus with about 30 children on board caught on fire this morning on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway this morning; fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.
- The District’s eighth-graders get fresh with the Mayor.
- WMATA and the D.C. Department of Transportation are working on a plan to improve evacuation capacity, Metrorail platforms, and links to other modes of transit at Union Station.
- Michael A. Brown tells Kojo that his “massuh” comments were “a little taken out of context,” although he “definitely said it.”
- For those who love running gentrification gags: City Paper pitches some ideas based on a casting call for an H Street sitcom.
- ABC might be giving “All My Children” the axe, but they’re giving a job to Carla Hall.
- Julian Sanchez actually manages to link national security policy to the Joker. Cap doffed, sir.
- The lack of a replica Bo is a deal-breaker.
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