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Good morning, DCentric readers! Are you enjoying this 90-degree autumn weather? Look at the bright side! You can put off packing away your summer wardrobe for a few days weeks months um…for a while.

Gray will consider rehiring fired D.C. teachers “”I’m open to them being able to be considered for a job,” Gray said in the interview set to air this Friday. “I don’t know why anybody would say they shouldn’t be considered when in fact they were let go supposedly for budgetary reasons.” In fact, Rhee testified before the Council that many of those fired teachers were high performers.” (WTOP News)

What would “sanity” in parking look like? “It’s not ideal for the DC Council to be setting parking rates. Even now, the Budget Support Act each year contains detailed lists of which blocks are in the “premium demand zone” and other rate issues. Parking rates should be set through some sort of administrative process, not legislation.” (Greater Greater Washington)

At crowded public events, a doggy divide “Some area residents say the tension over dogs in public places is a particularly American phenomenon. Suzanne Nagy, an Alexandria resident who has been posted in Austria with the International Atomic Energy Agency, said dogs are more likely to be seen in public settings in Europe, but with much less friction. The difference, she said, is near-universal obedience training and an onus on owners to make their dogs behave.” (The Washington Post)

Ellwood Thompson’s still “negotiating and working with” DCUSA’s “NY landlord” An interesting comment: “At Columbia Heights Day, I talked to Jim Graham. He said that Ellwoods is timid and pulled out. He said that they already started look for another vendor. Reading this story, I don’t know what to believe–except that Columbia Heights is being yanked around. Either Ellwoods needs to come, or we need to find somebody else. Enough is enough.” (New Columbia Heights)

Vince Gray, Then – DCist Check out the photograph! “While at the university, as he would recall, Gray was amongst the first African-American members of any fraternity. In this case, it was Tau Epsilon Phi, a Jewish fraternity chartered in 1932.” (DCist)

Cambridge, MA ‘yoga’ parking tickets have drivers in a twist DC please do NOT take note: “Parking tickets messing with your inner tranquility? Try yoga! That’s the latest New Age answer to modern aggravations from the city of Cambridge, where violation notices are now helpfully illustrated with a series of calming yoga poses.” (Boston Herald)