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Pick up a print copy of Washington City Paper today and feast your eyes on this week’s cover story: Justin Moyer‘s letter to his toddler daughter about the maddening process of picking a D.C. preschool.

LEADING THE MORNING NEWS:

• America’s best airport is not Reagan or Dulles. [WTOP]
• Springfield groper continues his attacks. [Post]
• Parents don’t like DCPS budget. [Post]
• Mayors have ignored anti-fraud law. [Examiner]
• Environmentalists unhappy with Rock Creek Park chemicals. [WJLA]

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

Ramen Rock: Some local restaurants, including H Street’s Toki Underground, put a lot of thought into their music choices.

Big in Sweden: Local musician Kelow, a 20-year-old lesbian rapper from Maryland, hasn’t hit it big in Washington yet. But as with so many things, the Swedes are ahead of the curve.

Raise the Roof: Increases to the Height Act shouldn’t come uniformly, Aaron Wiener writes in Housing Complex.

Popping a Wheelie: A Washington Times columnist who hates Capital Bikeshare seems to have forgotten that it exists at all.

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

• Fire department provides D.C. Council with bogus fleet info. Chief Ken Ellerbe says one of his deputy chiefs has retired as a result. [Fox5]
• Unsolved mystery: who is going to win at-large seat next month? [Post]
• Tommy Wells flip-flops on club closings. [Arts Desk]
• In D.C., Obamacare could mean being forced to give up your current health insurance, even if you like it. [Post]
• Parents upset with new DCPS budgeting. [Post]
• D.C., still growing. [Examiner]
• Mysterious anti-big-box-higher-wages group pops up. [Post]

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

• Weigh in on Metro’s new Silver Line map. [Mindmixer]
• Preservation’s problems go well beyond perception. [GGW]
• Here’s what D.C. would look like under Nicolae Ceauşescu. [Atlantic Cities]
• The National Mall will take a hit from sequestration. [WJLA]
• There’s a modest correlation between school walkability and performance. [GGW]
• Condos in D.C. are 9.2 percent more expensive than a year ago. [WBJ]
• Bill in Congress could scrap Eisenhower Memorial design. [WJLA]
• Today on the market: Brightwood multiplex