District Line Daily: Wedding Planning

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With Question 6 approved in Maryland, the Times reports that the state’s wedding planners are bracing for a wave of new clients.

LEADING THE MORNING NEWS:

• Dupont Circle bike groper pleads guilty. [Post]
• GW admits accidentally inflating freshman class’ credentials. [Post]
• Montgomery County proposes bus rapid transit system. [WTOP]

RECENT CITY PAPER STORIES TO HELP YOU MAKE SENSE OF YOUR DAY:

Photo of the Day: Barbershop.

Top Chef Begins: The new season of Top Chef has started out tough for D.C. contestants, with one getting eliminated over an omelet.

LividSocial: LivingSocial fans and detractors are mixing it up in the comments on this week’s cover story.

Gurley Surprise: What’s behind Council chairman candidate Calvin Gurley earning around 57,000 votes, despite being practically unknown? Good campaigning, according to Gurley.

Free Vibrators: Trojan is set to give away vibrators downtown next week.

Sonic Circuits in the Red: The Sonic Circuits Festival is short $5,000 and asking supporters for help.

LOOSE LIPS, by Loose Lips columnist Alan Suderman. (tips? lips@washingtoncitypaper.com)

• Is Kwame “Fully Loaded” Brown going to run in the spring special? [Post]
• D.C.’s health insurance market moving closer to reality [Times]
• Public school closing list coming Tuesday [Post]
• Next time remember that you get to vote for two at-large [DCist]
• Barras: for all the money that’s spent, D.C.’s schools stink [Examiner]
• Way too many D.C. students are habitual truants [Post]
• Federal oversight of special ed transportation ends [Post]
• Jack Evans doesn’t want a casino in D.C. [Post]

HOUSING COMPLEX, by Housing Complex columnist Aaron Wiener. (tips? awiener@washingtoncitypaper.com )

• Anthony Williams, Tom Davis, Alice Rivlin, et al. will testify before Council on budget autonomy today. [AP]
• A nonprofit snatches up property by the Benning Road Metro. [WBJ]
• The psychology of real estate, and the lucky number nine. [Trulia Trends]
• Construction will begin next month on a 17th and O NW development. [Borderstan]
• Here are 35 more condo projects coming to town. [UrbanTurf]
• Inauguration, coming at you like a hurricane (when it comes to taxi fees). [WJLA]
• Bloomingdale comes of age. [DCmud]
• Who will take Michael Brown‘s place at the helm of the economic development committee? [WBJ]
• Today on the market: Truxton townhouse

ARTS LINKS, by Caroline Jones (tips? artsdesk@washingtoncitypaper.com)

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