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Good morning, Washington. Just five days to go until the D.C. primary election. Also, Longview Gallery is closed today, so DCist Exposed will be back tomorrow. Check it out—it closes sunday.

On Second Thought: Members of the D.C. Council were due a $3,000 raise this year but after considering the appearance of one of the highest-paid legislatures in the country rewarding itself further, some now feel it might be inappropriate, WAMU reports. Ward and at-large representatives earn $125,000 a year and are allowed to hold outside jobs, while the chairman is paid $190,000 but not permitted outside employment. “I don’t think I would feel comfortable getting a raise while others are not,” Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), who is also a law professor at George Washington University, told WAMU.

Virginia Is for Lovers … of Screwing Us Over: Loudoun County’s latest hangup over the planned Silver Line to connect Metrorail to Dulles International Airport is the use of organized labor in construction the Post reports. Scott K. York, the chairman of the Loudoun Board of Supervisors, told a Northern Virginia business conference yesterday that if the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority gives preference to contractors who enter into collective bargaining agreements with their workers, the county will likely bail out of the $6 billion, partially completed rail project.

Tinker Tailor Talker Spy: In a rare interview with WTOP, the CIA’s senior-most African-American official is telling—just a bit—about his 26 years as an operative in the agency’s National Clandestine Service. Justin Jackson, who joined the agency in the early 1980s, conducted espionage in hotspots around the world, from Latin America to Eastern Europe to Iraq and Afghanistan. He can’t really go in to much detail, but there’s enough to suss out that Jackson’s life of spycraft was pretty exciting at times. “You have to live a double life,” he says.

Briefly Noted: Maryland student dies after collapsing on high-school track … Karen Toles to fight reckless driving charge in court … District considering turning Ford’s Theatre block into pedestrian plaza … Sixty city employees fired over unemployment fraud scheme … Washed-out businesses returning to Georgetown waterfront … Designing a severed head and exploding cake? “Not a problem.”

This Day in DCist: Last year, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a fender bender on the way to work, and former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee responded to test-tampering allegations. Two years ago, it was learned that D.C. Council Chairman Vince Gray would be running for mayor.