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Snow and Politics: Loose Lips Daily

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 12:32 p.m.

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning!IN CASE YOU MISSED IT---'Kwame Brown 'Seriously Considering' Fenty Challenge'; 'Harry Thomas Jr. to Enjoy Super Bowl, Not Snow Bowl'; 'Snow Homework: Crowdsource Fenty's Campaign Finance Report!'; and tweets [ ... ] ...

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The Wizards' desire to move Butler has only increased in recent days, since they found out they...

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 12:30 p.m.
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The Wizards' desire to move Butler has only increased in recent days, since they found out they will indeed get some cap relief from the NBA this season after losing Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton to suspension for the rest of the season. Washington's cap number will be reduced almost $4 million, according to sources -- pro-rated amounts of the remainder of Arenas's $16.1 million and Crittenton's $1.47 million salaries -- taking its cap number to a little more than $74 million. The cap

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District Driving in the Post-Snowpocalypse: For the Love of God, Please Learn to Helm Your Sport Utility Vehicle!

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 11:53 a.m.

Here's the thing with automatic transmission in America: People get lulled into the notion that driving all cars is pretty much the same. Here's the other thing: In the snow, that notion flies out the window. Cars that have a lot of power and—hey!—ballast shouldn't be the ones fishtailing in and out of snowbanks. This [ ... ] ...

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Digging Out

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 11:45 a.m.
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Between digging out of the nearly two feet of snow that fell around our house this past weekend and the half dozen or so trees that targeted our dwelling during the blizzard--we've been pretty busy keeping things safe. There is nothing like watching 75 to 100 foot tall trees falling during a storm and wondering whether your roof is going to collapse at any moment thanks to the possible impact ... Fortunately, major damage was avoided. By breaking off high, not at the roots, they missed, but left

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HoopData wins the day

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 10:55 a.m.
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HoopData wins the day ... Want a time-waster (besides BF)? Play around with this motion graph ... It's seriously worth your while ...

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Cheap Seats Daily: Does Everybody Despise Phil Simms As Much I Do?

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 10:45 a.m.

As forecast in the lede of the current Cheap Seats column, Drew Brees was named Super Bowl MVP.And as promised shortly thereafter by a spokesman for the Redskins' designated drinkmaker, Diageo, Brees did not strike a Captain Morgan pose on the field at game's end, even with all those reports that the boozers put up [ ... ] ...

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Keys to the Palace: A magical ending to an otherwise bad week

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 10:39 a.m.
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More photos » ... Fernando Medina - NBAE via Getty Images ... Browse more photos » ... A close loss to Celtics, a big loss to the Knicks, and a close win over Orlando gave Wizards fans a little bit of everything to chew on last week.  Other than Brendan Haywood, Mike Miller, and Caron Butler, no one provided consistently strong performances throughout the week, making this week's decisions on who enters the palace that much more difficult.   ...   ... Andray Blatche ... Andray was one of

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Indy Cornrows: It could be way worse, Wizards fans

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 10:35 a.m.
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Indy Cornrows: It could be way worse, Wizards fans ... It's natural to compare the gun situation to the brawl at the Palace, but in case you wanted to draw parallels between the two, Indy Cornrows, SB Nation's Pacers blog, reminds us that they had a lot more go wrong ... (Though we are seeing the whole "other DC-area team rise up and take fans" phenomenon with the Caps already) ...

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DPW: “We Are Collecting Today”

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 10:27 a.m.

If you haven't already bothered to figure this out, there's big news in post-snow trash removal. The Department of Public Works has ambitions to brave the snowy side streets and pick up your trash. DPW's Linda Grant tells City Desk: "We are collecting today."Grant cautions that District trash haulers won't be able to do any [ ... ] ...

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Weekend in Review: Snowbigdeal

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 8:26 a.m.

Everything's closed, we got tons of snow, there's more in the forecast. Yeah, we know all of the above. What we really want to know is what happened within the administration of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty between roughly 5 pm and 9 pm. At the former hour, his people put out the word that the [ ... ] ...

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