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		<title>WCP&#8217;s Best of DC 2009 Includes New Category</title>
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Washington City Paper&#8217;s 2009 &#8220;Best Of DC&#8221; is out and there&#8217;s a new category: Best Obama Mural on the Outside of a Restaurant.&#8221;
The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities funded the project; its concept was largely set by Mama Ayesha’s family members, who still run the restaurant she opened in 1960 (then known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering 14th Street Bridge Honoree Arland D. Williams, Jr.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine surviving a plane crashing into the Potomac River, finding yourself afloat in near zero degree waters surrounded by ice floes and ravaged plane parts, a helicopter hovering above with a rope hanging down, and deciding to give it to someone else?  Then another person?  And another person while your life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metro Opens Doors Early This Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This will be the first year in more than a decade that I had the day after Thanksgiving off so I&#8217;m new to this early bird gets the best deals concept.  But for those who are veterans, Metro opens doors early on &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; to accomodate those who just can&#8217;t wait to get their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Brown Finally Gets Elected, Officially</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Michael Brown finally made it to the council.  The DC Board of Elections and Ethics certified the Nov. 4 general election, making Michael Brown officially an at-large councilmember.
The three board members voted unanimously for certification over the objections of the District&#8217;s Republican Party, which has argued that Brown&#8217;s candidacy violates a D.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Michael Brown Represent the City?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, ok, we all know that newly elected member of DC Council Michael Brown is really a Democrat.  He was born a Democrat.  He voted in the primaries as a Deomcrat this year.  His entire life has been sitting on the side of the Democrats.
Of course this makes no difference other than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streetcars Return to DC, East of the River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Greater Greater Washington website [which I found through DCist&#8217;s website], the plans to bring back streetcars in DC will being its comeback in Anacostia.
Imagine that.  Streetcars coming back to DC, but not down congested and more well-known areas such as Georgetown [If there&#8217;s even room to build it there], Georgia Ave or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Girls Attending DC Public Schools?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you find it more exciting or more scary to hear that Barack and Michelle Obama&#8217;s two daughters could potentially attend a DC public school?
It definitely would send a signal to the country, but what the signal is can be viewed in many different ways.  It could be a vote of confidence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safe Haven in DC?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To think, I moved out of Langston-Carver as soon as the lease was up to get away from the violence and now, just down the street from Supreme Court Justices and Congressmembers in SW DC, there&#8217;s a group of teens running around beating people up for the fun of it.
One of my homeboys was walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will 45 Principals Balance out 750 Less Educators?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I gave it some thought about DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee firing 750 educators and aides at once, just months after terminating 100 or so educators already.  And then I started thinking about something Jim Collins wrote about in his book, &#8220;Good to Great.&#8221;
I can&#8217;t remember verbatim or give it justice if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>750 Less Teachers, Aides Won&#8217;t Disrupt Upcoming School Year?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve really been giving the Fenty-Rhee ticket the benefit of the doubt about their plans on the pucblic school system.  Perhaps since I don&#8217;t have any kids I can&#8217;t understand the full impact of some of these decisions.  But does it really take kids in school to feel that firing 750 teachers and [...]]]></description>
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