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Town of Chevy Chase Won’t File Purple Line Lawsuit – Town of Chevy Chase Vice Mayor Pat Burda said the Town will not file a lawsuit against the Purple Line but might file a brief in support of the lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail and two Town residents. The Town has spent about $214,000 so far on legal and lobbying fees against the light rail, which the Town is officially opposed to. [Washington Post]

Primary Spending Totals Are In And They Are Large – Marc Korman and Hrant Jamgochian, the two leading non-incumbent candidates in June’s District 16 House of Delegates primary, each spent more than $200,000 on their campaigns. Both financed their campaigns with significant self-loans. Korman loaned himself $69,000 and Jamgochian loaned himself about $150,000, including $30,000 in the days leading up to the primary. Korman won one of three Democratic District 16 nominations along with Bill Frick and Ariana Kelly, who also loaned herself major money for campaign spending. District 16 Senate candidate Hugh Hill loaned himself $50,000 in his losing effort against Susan Lee. [Bethesda Magazine]

School Bus Passing Problem Shows No Signs Of Abating – From January to mid-August, cameras installed on 25 MCPS buses caught about 710 instances of drivers illegally passing stopped buses. The school system and police started the school bus camera program in January to discourage drivers from passing buses with their stop arms out. In a Maryland State Department of Education survey done on one day in May, drivers observed 893 instances of motorists passing stopped school buses. That meant each driver participating saw an average of 1.1 incidents. [The Gazette]

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