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Dick A. Heller holds his handgun registration certificate. His gun-rights fight isn't over: He has sued the city again, this time over what he calls cumbersome registration rules.
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Officials Cut Ribbon on Phelps School
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) led a large contingent of officials in cutting the ribbon yesterday for the new $63 million Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School.
City officials hailed the reborn Phelps, shuttered by budget cuts five years ago, as the first of its kind among public high schools, offering programs for both college-bound students and those interested in trades for after graduation.
"People think it's one or the other," said D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. "What we're going to prove here at Phelps is that you can have both."
Council member Kwame R. Brown (D-At Large), a former Phelps student and a key figure in securing funding for the new school, said the reopening fills a significant hole in the D.C. system.
"Today we are undoing a wrong," Brown said.
-- Bill Turque
