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D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles is weighing a change in the policy that allows social workers to drive their personal vehicles to get to residents, citing liability issues surrounding the use by city employees of private vehicles for government business.


When I first met him a dozen years ago, Mike Durso struck me as an okay principal. He didn't say much about himself, but his school, Springbrook High in Silver Spring, was well-run. The students liked him. He had been around a long time, another good sign.


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