The Needle: The Grades of Wrath

by Will Sommer December 20th, 2012October 17th, 2020

Fairfax Leaks: An anonymous user of Fairfax County’s rowdy Fairfax Underground forum leaked more than 2,000 pages of Fairfax High School student grades. -4

Brr: The Washington region could experience unusually high winds on Saturday. -3

Kwame, Inc.: Disgraced ex-Council Chairman Kwame Brown has joined the ranks of the city’s entrepreneurs. +1

Field Gets Crowd: Ex-Loose Lips reporter Elissa Silverman announced today that she’s running this spring to fill the Council’s at-large vacancy. +/-0

Wednesday’s Needle rating: 17 Today’s score: -6 Thursday’s Needle rating: 11

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