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- PSA: The District will be distributing sandbags to residents at RFK’s Lot 7 between 6 p.m. and midnight. [Patch]
- D.C. Log Cabin Republicans angry with Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large), use Victorian insult to tell him so. Is a duel in the offing? [City Paper]
- Vincent Orange is in. So too is Dorothy Douglas. Is Sekou Biddle up for reliving the April 26 Special Election in 2012? Maybe. [DeBonis]
- We’ve already gotten more rain that we did during Hurricane Irene, yet without all the fanfare. [WJLA]
- Way to go, weather. You went and ruined a birthday party for some lion cubs. [National Zoo]
- Police need to be policed, it seems — 23 D.C. cops have been arrested so far in 2011. [TBD]
- Want to know where the District’s 2,257 vacant properties are? Map ’em. [Housing Complex]
- Richard Florida puts H Street NE on his list of top 10 up-and-coming urban neighborhoods. [USA Today]
- Thanks to the securicrats, more of Washington is being hidden behind walls and bollards. [Tom Sherwood, Foreign Policy]
- Mayor Vince Gray announces that his weekly press conferences will be bi-weekly, include more questions and answers; comes out against taxicab medallion proposal. [Mark Segraves, Patrick Madden]
- Democrat requests that The Cooch investigate Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell for shutting Dems out of commission on government reform. Yeah, that’s likely. [WaPo]
- Apex to reopen as Phase 1; it closed in July. [MetroWeekly, DCist]
- Super-secure new federal facility isn’t so secure after all. [Time]
- Maryland man won’t be leaving Aruba anytime soon. [Examiner]
- Reinventing Southwest. [Washingtonian]
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