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>> The Corcoran Gallery of Art is staying put. While the museum said in June that it was considering leaving its historic Beaux-Arts building, the Post reports that its leaders have had a change of heart. The 1897 building still needs some $132 million in repairs, and there is still the question of what to do with the attached College of Art and Design. Last month, there were whispers of the Corcoran partnering its museum with the National Gallery of Art and merging the college into George Washington University.
>> Authorities believe that the suspect wanted in the shooting death Sunday night of a woman aboard a Metrobus in Southeast D.C. is himself dead. The Post reports that a man fitting the description of 27-year-old Javon S. Foster was found dead in New York. Brown was suspected in the death of Selina Brown, 20, who had a 23-month-old daughter with Foster and who was killed Sunday while boarding a bus.
>> Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) held a hearing yesterday on how the D.C. Board of Elections handled the November 6 general election, but executive director Clifford Tatum arrived unprepared to answer Bowser’s questions. Bowser was not pleased by that, and chewed out Tatum for his apparent disinterest toward the hearing: “You’ve provided absolutely no substantive information to the council,” she said, according to The Washington Examiner.
Briefly Noted: Georgetown to offer free online classes … CFO Natwar Gandhi says no increase in “ballpark fee” … D.C. among best for school choice … GOP state senator proposes splitting Virginia’s electoral votes.
This Day in DCist: In 2010, D.C. braced for a cold front and possibly snow. (It wound up not getting much at all.)