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>> A contractor at Anacostia High School is the second person to be accused of sexually assaulting a participant in this year’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Meanwhile, the first person to be accused of such actions reportedly served time in prison for armed robbery and assault.

>> D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown got blessed by the Dalai Lama. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice. (Seriously, though, a very happy birthday to Mr. Gyatso.)

>> The New Republic’s Kara Brandeisky examines whether Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chair of the House Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives, is “D.C.’s Most Unlikely Friend.”

>> Matt Yglesias argues that the large fee assessed to car sharing services in D.C. is “nuts.”

>> Federal funds only account for 25 percent of the District’s budget, a smaller-or-equal proportion than Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Alabama, Montana, Vermont and West Virginia receive.

>> The Wall Street Journal thinks that George Washington University is in Georgetown.

>> It stormed recently, so that must mean that the D.C. Council is going after Pepco again.

>> A battle between the founders of the William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts in Northeast and the school’s board of directors is getting mighty ugly.

>> Pretty much everyone agrees that the District could be doing a better job encouraging citizens to report hate crimes and bias-related incidents to the police.

>> WaPo reader ain’t pleased with Kaya Henderson’s use of informal contractions.

>> Unsuck DC Metro has Metro Transit Police sources who say that they avoid certain stations — among them L’Enfant Plaza and Anacostia — because “the poor quality of radio reception makes it difficult or impossible to call for backup in event something bad were to happen.”

>> The District’s Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization — formerly run by current City Administrator Allen Lew — is under scrutiny again.

>> What a mess: “But in Wesley Heights, where home prices hover in the seven figures, the Magee house is at the center of an epic feud between Magee and his neighbors that has drawn the attention of three mayoral administrations, two D.C. Council members, the water utility, the police and every level of the city’s building code enforcement bureaucracy.”

>> Metro thinks that it can solve the impending traffic apocalypse that is BRAC with more bus lines. Well, that’s admirable.

>> Prominent local political consultant Tom Lindenfeld has ten ideas on how to rid the city government of corruption, most of them related to fixing just how easy it is to engage in such misbehavior.

>> Condo sales are down region-wide.

>> The Walmart donations are soooo much bigger in New York.

>> It’s like Bonnie and Clyde, if Bonnie was a blow-up doll and Clyde was really into that kind of thing.

>> Moar Wugazi, plz.