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Good morning, Washington. Never doubt the power of the internet! After online WMATA whistleblower Unsuck DC Metro posted a video showing several vehicles with Metro vests parked in primo spots outside the Huntington Metro station without the appropriate passes, the media picked up the story and, last night, Metro General Manager and CEO Richard Sarles was forced into action. Calling it “a disservice to both customers and other Metro employees,” Sarles said that he’d have Metro Transit Police issue citations to those employees who are parking improperly. Scorn the blogs at your own risk, people.

Brown and Family: Loose Lips digs deep into the campaign money troubles of D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown and finds one seriously hot mess, including “plenty of circumstantial evidence” that “some of the $735,000 Brown raised in his successful bid for the chairman’s seat last year may have found its way to his family members’ pockets.” A recent Office of Campaign Finance audit found several discrepancies in Brown’s 2008 campaign expenditures, and deeper investigations — including potentially by the IRS — could be on the horizon.

Fenty’s Friends: Speaking of inner circles, Michael Neibauer follows up on his report regarding former mayor Adrian Fenty’s decision to donate about $440,000 in leftover citizen-service funds to a charity operated by his former chief campaign fundraiser John Falcicchio. Fenty won’t have a place on the board of the recently-incorporated Forward Faster, but the board does include Falcicchio and three other former Fenty staffers. “I think the idea was to give it to charity, but maybe they’re of the ‘charity begins at home’ variety,” said Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh.

Alexandria Barbershop Shooting: An Annandale man, accused of shooting two people and killing one inside an Alexandria barbershop yesterday afternoon, turned himself in to police last night. Hung T. Nguyen, who police say was an “occasional employee” at the barbershop, has been charged with murder in connection with the incident. Le D. Hoang of Alexandria was killed in the shooting.

Briefly Noted: Lydia DePillis goes behind the scenes of Capital Bikeshare…Pedestrians struck at 1000 H Street NW, 700 block of 6th Street NW…D.C. looking to cap special education spending…Metrobus riders: nicer than Metrorail riders?…Just because you’re the mayor, it doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your rent.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Eleanor Holmes Norton finally conceded that there was no way around the inclusion of gun amendments in the D.C. voting rights bill; in 2009, we wondered whether the Tea Party’s cries of “no taxation without representation” might lead to some solidarity with D.C.’s struggle for autonomy.