- Surprise, surprise. WTOP reports that Metro didn't get fully repaid for all its additional inauguration expenses.
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art laid off 18 people today.
- There could be as many as 24 new express Metrobus lines by 2015, reports the Examiner.
- Greater Greater Washington covers the latest court proceedings over the fight to tear down the Third Church of Christ, Scientist at 16th and I.
- Housing Complex shows us what the inside of a $20 million home in the District looks like.
- Megan McArdle takes up the preemptive D.C. streetcar purchase debacle and concludes that "DC is possibly the worst-governed city I've ever lived in."
- Matt Yglesias thinks it's too difficult for local entrepreneurs to get liquor license approvals, especially considering the recession.

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Anyone else wish Yglesias and Boasberg could be trapped in an elevator for, say, the remainder of 2009?
god bless mcardle, but how many places has she actually lived that could even be compared to DC. i'm not defending the city's government here, but that's some real non-analysis analysis on her part.
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, London, Hoboken?