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Good morning, Washington. We’re known as a city of workaholics, and the Post reports today that the reputation may carry over far past the age when most people would retire. According to numbers from the U.S. Census, more than one in five people in the area over the age of 65 are still working; the reasons for our below-average retirement rates include the fact that few local workers have blue collar jobs, we’re a very well-educated area and many folks approaching retirement are in management positions. Oh yeah, and that whole recession thing helps.

Cooch For Captain of the Commonwealth!: No one can say it wasn’t expected — Virginia Attorney General Ken “The Cooch” Cuccinelli is planning on running for governor in 2013, reports the Post. The many Tea Party activists who he has become a hero for may be happy with the news, but Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling probably isn’t. Bolling has the backing of Gov. Bob McDonnell, who cannot run for a second term.

Buses for Special Ed Students Run D.C. $92 Million Per Year: Yeah, you heard right — the District pays $92 million a year, or $26,000 for each of the 3,500 special education students that get bused to school. The Examiner reports that D.C. officials are looking for ways to cut down on the outlay, but the options are limited. At a breakfast between Mayor Vince Gray and the D.C. Council yesterday, legislators floated ideas from buying parents cars or providing them with free or discounted Metro rides. Gray said that the busing was a symptom of a larger problem, that being the lack of local educational facilities and programs to handle special education students.

More License Plate Readers Headed to D.C.: The District already has more license plate readers per capita than any other jurisdiction in the country, and it looks like more are on the way. The Post reports that the Washington region is getting a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security for counterterrorism, which includes an expanded license plate reader program. The license plate readers are mounted on police cars and feed images into a massive database; police say they help track down criminals, civil libertarians complain about an invasion of privacy. The District is said to already have one plate reader per square-mile.

Briefly Noted: MoCo anti-loitering bill likely unconstitutional … D.C.-bound passenger found with a stun gun disguised as a cell phone … Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) is a bundler … U.S. Army may not have been totally honest about traffic projections at new Mark Center … Everything you do and don’t want to know about Allen Lew … Metro will run trains even if there’s eight inches of snow on outside tracks.

This Day in DCist: On this day last year, Potomac Gardens attracted more negative attention from its Capitol Hill neighbors, the Transformer Gallery announced it would be screening David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly and we sponsored a caption contest of a photograph of President Obama lunching with Mayor Gray. In 2009, same-sex marriage passed the D.C. Council 11-2 and we were baffled by some of the top 10 local Google searches.