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>> D.C. officials will officially unveil later morning the city’s annual financial report for fiscal 2012. Reports last week suggested a budget surplus of as much as $400 million. Mayor Vince Gray is expected to push for much of the excess funds to be added to the city’s emergency fund. Progressive activists have called on the mayor to use some of the money to finance low-income and affordable housing.

>> The nightclub DC Soundstage, where last Sunday morning five people were shot and hospitalized with non-life-threatening, has prompted an investigation into entertainment venues using catering licenses to serve liquor. The Washington Post reports that officials are now looking into how many bars and nightclubs are skating around the city’s liquor licensing process by effectively hiring catering companies. And the reasons for the gunshots are still unknown.

>> Virginia legislators are moving for the state to take control of the Dulles Greenway, the 14-mile stretch of highway that extends from the end of the Dulles Toll Road toward Leesburg, WAMU reports. But the road, and its $4.90 rush hour toll, are unpopular with local commuters, and Virginia taking over the Greenway would require buying it back from an Australian firm that paid nearly $530 million to take it over.

Briefly Noted: Lottery contracts tied up in Certified Business Enterprise program … Top 25 delinquent taxpayers owe District $3.5 million … Howard U. a breeding ground for great cinematographers … Is D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi on the way out? … Wizards back to losing ways.