D.C. Mayor Vince Gray’s weekly news conference got off to a grumbling start Wednesday morning when a spokesman announced from the podium that the mayor would not take any “off topic” questions.

Everyone in the room already knew Gray would be announcing that Kaya Henderson is his pick to drop the “interim” part of her title as chancellor of the D.C. schools. But the real focus for many reporters of late has been the stream of scandals that have plagued the Gray administration.

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