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Good morning, Washington. Today the Post interviews the victim of an anti-gay attack that took place at Georgia Avenue and Irving Street NW earlier this month. After two attacks by an unidentified group of people, the man’s jaw was broken and ribs bruised. “Physically, I’m about 50 percent, emotionally, I’m about the same. I just try not to think about the fact that the person who did this to me is still out there,” he said. D.C. police are investigating the crime, which occurred around the same time as an anti-gay shooting at IHOP. Police recently announced an arrest related to that case.

Maryland Senate Approves Expanded Gambling: A casino may come to Prince George’s County and table games might be coming to five other sites in Maryland. The Washington Times reports that the state Senate passed a measure expanding gambling options throughout the state, including allowing a proposed $1 billion casino at the National Harbor. It still faces an uphill battle, though—it’ll need to attract the support of three-fifths of the members of the House and be approved by voters in a November referendum.

D.C. Legislators Taking Small Raises: Members of the D.C. Council are among the highest paid legislators in the country, and now they’re taking raises—albeit small ones. The Examiner reports that a number of councilmembers are getting a 2.2 percent cost-of-living pay increase this year, adding some $2,800 to their $125,000 annual salaries and costing taxpayers $1 million. Four councilmembers have declined the raises—Kwame Brown, Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Michael Brown (I-At Large), and David Catania (I-At Large)—while those accepting argue that they did not get cost-of-living increases over the last two years.

Recycling Bins Installed Downtown: WTOP reports that recycling downtown may be getting easier—the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District is installing 10 recycling bins in a 43-block area, hoping to convert 20 percent of trash to recycling.

Briefly Noted: Ron Paul to speak in College Park today … Depressing sign of the times for Baltimore: neighborhood pools may close to save money … Funding for Dulles Metro complicates Virginia budget discussions … PETA wants to rename a Virginia road “Spay Today Way” … Sixty D.C. employees fired in unemployment insurance scam.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2011, we discovered that Georgetown Cupcake fuels corporate lobbying blitzes and two former Post reporters bought Politics and Prose. In 2010, Roger Ebert gave Michelle Rhee the thumbs up.