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GAS IMPACTS SPRING BREAK PLANS
Baltimore Sun: "For her last spring break next week, Morgan State University senior Tenisha Duke planned a road trip to Florida with friends, the eight of them packed in two cars. That way, they could split the cost of gas. But when violence broke out half a world away, sending gas prices here soaring, even that strategy wasn't frugal enough for Duke. She will be spending her break at her District of Columbia home instead of the beach."
MCLEAN NON-PROFIT SEES UPTICK IN NEED
Sun Gazette: " Share Inc. of McLean has served twice as many clients as usual during the economic downturn, and the non-profit group still is looking for volunteers and donations from the public. “In McLean, there really are homeless people who live on the streets,” said volunteer Hunter Pollitt. “More than half of our clients are children. We try to end the cycle of needing public assistance.”
GEORGETOWN STUDENTS AND GRAY TO MEET
The Georgetown Voice: "Mayor Vincent Gray has agreed to meet with students to discuss D.C. Council’s “nighttime noise prohibition” Disorderly Conduct Law, among other issues, the DC Student Alliance, a student advocacy group of elected representatives from 15 Washington-area universities, announced yesterday in a press release. The DCSA requested a meeting in a Feb. 23 letter to four D.C. officials about the ambiguities and potential abuses of the new law, which outlaws “unreasonably loud noises from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.”
