Good morning, Washington. Can you feel the excitement in the air? That’s right: it’s Taxi Decision Day. Will District residents get a shiny new meter system, or have to make our peace with zones for the foreseeable future? Or will we be treated to a metered zone hybrid/abomination? It’ll be just a few hours until we find out.

Immigration Measures Elicit Passion, Lawsuits: The Post reports on the scene in Prince William County, where a meeting on a measure to deny county services to illegal immigrants drew over a thousand attendees and lasted more than twelve hours before resulting in the initiative’s approval. And in Manassas a group of Hispanic residents has filed a lawsuit related to that municipality’s anti-immigrant initiatives, as the AP (via WTOP) relates. Specifically, the suit alleges that the school system illegally provided police with information from student records during a brief period when Manassas had introduced limits on the number of residents that could live together in a household.

Sen. Warner Hospitalized Again: The soon-to-retire senator is back in the hospital, according to WTOP. As you might remember, Warner was hospitalized two weeks ago for surgery to correct a heart fibrillation. Another hospitalization so soon after the first certainly sounds like bad news, but it’s apparently just due to a relatively minor complication related to the first surgery.

Briefly Noted: Youth coach who brandished gun is three-time felon… Fenty pledges that all schools will have heat this winter… Montgomery County girl missing… Virginia General Assembly race fundraising proceeding at record pace…

This Day In DCist: A year ago we remembered Count Gore De Vol and visited the German Gourmet. Two years ago the new panda cub was officially dubbed Tai Shan and we considered the denim tuxedo.

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