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- Contractor fired on long-delayed 17th Street levee, but no signs of when work will resume. [Post]
- D.C.’s bike lanes are getting better, but still need some work. [WAMU]
- Speaking of, it’s Bike to Work Day. Find a pit stop here. [DCist]
- Maryland public university tuition rises by three percent. [Examiner]
- Howard Theatre remembers Chuck Brown. [NBC 4]
- Gray not keen on gun insurance proposal. [Times]
- Nice day today, lousy weather this weekend. [CWG]
- Stephen Strasburg goes eight innings in Nationals 6-2 win over Padres. [Post]
- Five reasons to skip the Darkness. Nah, gonna see it anyway. [Arts Desk]
- Kentucky Derby winner Orb is even-money in Preakness Stakes. [Bleacher Report]
- This Day in DCist: In 2011, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was the victim of a home break-in, and a friends raised money to pay the medical bills for a bartender wounded after taking a knife for a customer.