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Obituaries Bill Cross, 93, was a teenager when his family bought a Germantown landmark, the Cider Barrel, in 1930. C6


District’s ‘Dr. No’: Is he also


by Nikita Stewart D.C. Chief Financial Officer


Natwar M. Gandhi delivered two warnings at the beginning of this year’s budget season: The city re- lies too much on reserve funds and borrows too heavily to pay for capital projects. Both actions had to stop, he warned. They haven’t. Most recently, the independent monitor of city finances has gone along with Mayor Adrian M. Fen- ty’s decision to scoop $264 mil- lion this year from the city’s rainy- day fund and a plan by D.C. Coun- cil Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) on May 26 to borrow to partially pay for about $50 million in 2011 streetcar project expenses. Fen- ty’s dip into the city’s reserves leaves the fund with $656 million for 2011 despite a promise to bond raters that it would not fall below $920 million. Gray’s plan would push the city closer to its borrow- ing limit of 12 percent of overall expenses. Now, some D.C. Council mem- bers wonder whether Gandhi, nicknamed “Dr. No” for his con- servative budgeting, is being swayed by election-year politics. Gray and Fenty (D) tout delivery of services and capital projects in their mayoral campaigns and sparred over spending during a budget forum Thursday night in Ward 3.


Council member Jack Evans


(D-Ward 2), chairman of the Com- mittee on Finance and Revenue, was so upset with city spending that he refused to give prelimi- nary approval to the budget May 26 and the fees and taxes that came with some amendments. “You have to cut money, and no one wants to make cuts,” said Ev- ans, who was the sole dissenter. “The bottom line is you can’t run the government this way. . . . I have grave concerns with the council borrowing $47million. It’s like using a credit card at the last minute.” In an interview last week, Gan- dhi acknowledged the perception by some that his decision-making is pressured by politics but de- nied that it influences his certifi- cation of the budget.


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Troubled D.C. girls move in to move on


Howard University, city partner to open facility in Southeast


by Henri E. Cauvin For years, the District has had


few options for girls involved in serious crimes. The female de- tention center at the old Oak Hill complex in Laurel was a decrepit mess before it was shuttered. Since then, the city often has had to choose between sending such girls to faraway facilities or send- ing them nowhere at all and in- stead supervise them in the com- munity, as happens with most delinquent boys and girls. It’s one of the reasons the Dis-


trict has hundreds of troubled children living at great expense


in private facilities around the country, and it is one of the rea- sons why juvenile justice officials for years have been talking about creating a local all-girls’ facility for some of the more serious of- fenders who’ve been committed to the custody of the D.C. Depart- ment of Youth Rehabilitation Services. Come next month, the agency


will finally have a place for some of those girls. A new, privately


run facility is to open on a quiet block in the Marshall Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington. The 5,500-square- foot house, built in 2007 and ren- ovated by the operators of the new program, Metropolitan Edu- cational Solutions, will take a half-dozen girls at the outset. Some will be returning from dis- tant facilities, while others are at risk of being sent to such places, known as residential treatment


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Rosalind Lockwood-Brooks and Valdez Mumford hope to open the facility at the end of the month. centers.


With a partnership planned


with Howard University, the Lil- lian D. Worthington Residential Facility is intended to serve not only as a home but a bridge to education beyond high school — in a vocational training program, community college or four-year university. Unlike a group home, where


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Home, home on the farm Residents of a Lanham subdivision who were worried about a man’s roaming animals, including a llama, pigs and goats, can rest easy now. C4


Mr. Yes? CFO says he’s impartial, but some question election-year politics


BOLD STATEMENTS IN CANCER FIGHT


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JOHN KELLY’S WASHINGTON


Oh, say can you sing? All manner of people have been inspired to celebrate Washington. Many artists have tried to write a song that sticks, but nothing has endured the test of time. C3


In GOP races, insiders


at ease NO HOTBED


by Ben Pershing


virginia beach — The story of the 2010 election so far has been the challenge to the Repub- lican establishment by the party’s angry and impassioned grass roots. In Virginia, the establishment is winning. Here in the 2nd Congressional


District, car dealer Scott Rigell has ridden a wave of big-name endorsements and a hefty bank account into the lead position be- fore Tuesday’s Republican pri- mary, even as five other candi- dates snipe that he is not conser- vative enough to deserve the nomination. The dynamic is similar in the


PHOTOS BY JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST by Dan Morse “Y


es they’re fake,” declared one T-shirt, referring to the breasts of the wearer. “My real ones tried to kill me.”


“Operation Support 2nd Base,” said another. “Stop the War in Myraq,” read a third. Funny,


inspiring, heartbreaking and sometimes


bawdy, the T-shirts on display Saturday at Washington’s annual Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure again served to illustrate how many people cope with breast cancer.


The shirts are becoming a core element of the race, now in its 21st year, which has raised more than $25 million since its inception. About 40,000 people ran or walked Saturday. For some, the bolder their slo- gans the better, because they want to spur others to get a checkup and help take the se- crecy out of the disease. “There’s no excuse for not


talking about it,” said partici- pant Krysta Scharlach, 32, whose tank top said “Save the Tatas.” She doesn’t have breast cancer, but ran to support the cause.


Other T-shirt slogans: “These Boobs Were Made for Walking,” “Taking Care of the Girls,” “Check Your Bumps for Lumps,” “Hope for Hooters,” as well as white sashes bearing the motto


Nancy Newman of Sterling, top photo, center, warms up for the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure. Kelly Cutsail, 21, of Mount Airy, above, wears an attention-getter at the event.


“Tata Sisterhood.” “It’s an expression of their personalities,” said race spokes- man Sean Tuffnell, “and how they’re positioning themselves in their fight.” Karen Harrington, 53, of


Cheltenham, Md., had always known the risks of breast can- cer. She’s an oncology research manager at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. And her young-


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5th District, where state Sen. Robert Hurt has the cash, the name recognition and the tacit blessing of Washington and Rich- mond luminaries in the crowded contest to face Rep. Tom Perriello (D). In the 1st District, Repub- lican Rep. Robert J. Wittman’s “tea party”-backed opponent ap- pears not to have raised the $5,000 necessary to trigger fed- eral reporting requirements. Republicans in the 9th District did not bother with a primary, and the establishment favorite to oppose Rep. Rick Boucher (D) — state House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith — easily snagged the nomination over two oppo- nents at a convention last month. Only in Northern Virginia’s


11th District does the self-de- scribed “outsider” Republican candidate, Oakton businessman Keith Fimian, appear to have a good shot at the party nod. And even Fimian has the experience of being the 2008 nominee and the backing of state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) to smooth his path. In Kentucky, the site of the tea


party’s best-known success of the cycle, Rand Paul consolidated grass-roots fervor behind his


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Va. voters embrace the establishment


ROBERT McCARTNEY


Jobs center clash highlights hard choices on immigrants


neat, brick rowhouses in Centreville said they’d be happy to walk a few extra blocks each morning to use a proposed day laborers center to look for work. It’d beat standing on the side of the road near their homes, as they do now. “It would be much better, especially when it rains. There’d be more control [of the hiring],” said Edwin Cabrera, 27. He typically earns $50 to $60 for a day working as a painter’s helper after contractors and homeowners drive up and offer jobs.


T But the men also made a


he Guatemalan men in paint-spattered pants standing outside their


confession. They’re in the country illegally. “My papers are in Guatemala,” Cabrera said with a smile.


And that’s a big problem for some of their neighbors. Just down St. Germain Drive, near the planned site of the job center, Kevin Vorce strongly opposed the controversial project. “It just hides the problem” by moving illegal workers to a double-wide trailer behind a shopping center, said Vorce, 53, who works in real estate. Their presence anywhere


“takes away from people who need work who are legally in the


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