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>> You might not get rich working for local government, but you can do pretty well. The Examiner reports that 11,500 state employees in Virginia and Maryland are taking in over $100,000 annually for jobs ranging from the technical to the tedious. Of Virginia’s 6,194 employees making north of the $100,000 mark, George Mason University men’s basketball coach Paul Hewitt leads the way with a base salary of $659,750. Of Maryland’s 5,501 employees, it’s E. Albert Reece, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland School of Medicine at $799,547. All told, over 1,100 state workers in Maryland and Virginia make more than the governors of their respective states.

>> Days before forcing University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan to resign, members of the university’s governing board discussed the move and even admitted that it could provoke tumult on the Charlottesville campus. The Post reports that board chair Helen E. Dragas knew the move would be controversial, saying in one email that she’d be “bullet-ridden by Sunday,” the day Sullivan would be asked to resign. After two weeks of protests, Sullivan was eventually reinstated.

>> It’s Kwame Comeback Time! Well, maybe not. Former D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown was supposed to reemerge in the public light today with a speech to the Washington Development Industry Council, writes WJLA. But according to the Post’s Tim Craig, that speech was canceled. Karma?

Briefly Noted: Montgomery County woman struck in head with arrow … Ward 8 farmers’ market allows shoppers to use food vouchers for fresh produce … I-95 in Virginia getting more HOV lanes … Fatigue cited as factor in fatal Virginia bus crash … Capital Area Food Bank increases capacity with new facility … Baltimore awarded downtown casino.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2011, Courtland Milloy joined the ranks of the city’s myopic little twits and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was involved in a minor crash. In 2010,