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Oct 25, 2018

Morning Roundup: Wayne Rooney Needs New Friends To Play FIFA

Rachel Kurzius

Photo by kelly bell photography.

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  • Oops, the D.C. Board of Elections didn’t remind 10,000 absentee voters to use stamps on their ballot envelopes. [Post]
  • A formerly homeless woman is running for ANC in Ward 7 as a champion of D.C.’s poor. [WCP]
  • Early voting begins in Maryland. [AP via WJLA]
  • Here’s why films set in the District so rarely film here. [AP via WTOP]
  • Wayne Rooney is happy in D.C., except he can’t schedule FIFA with his friends back home. [Post]
  • D.C. zoning commission will hold a special meeting on Monday to revise Airbnb regulations. [Post]
  • Meanwhile, Prince George’s County passed a bill regulating short-term rentals like Airbnb. [UrbanTurf]
  • Why national restaurant critics are so into Maydan. [Washingtonian]
  • “To every transgender person who is sitting at home doubting about their future, I am standing here to guarantee that it will be okay.” [Post]
  • Police used social media to track down rape suspect. [FOX 5]
  • University of Maryland report says that University of Maryland football program is not “toxic.” [WTOP]
  • The region is gonna need 100,000 or more homes in the coming decades to meet the projected population demands. [GGW]
  • How Wizards players spend their $133 per diem. [WCP]
  • ICYMI: Tenants are on rent strike at this Brightwood building, which just went on the market.
  • ICYMI: The art installation at a NoMa underpass has officially been unveiled.
  • ICYMI: But THIS is some real art.
  • This Day In DCist: We learned that prehensile-tailed porcupines are into piss play.
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