>> Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee scored the first victory of the nation’s critical Super Tuesday contests, winning all 18 delegates at West Virginia’s Republican convention. [CNN]

>> The Virginia Senate voted 23-15 to pass legislation to ban smoking in most indoor public places. The bill will now move to the House of Delegates, which last year rejected a restaurant smoking ban. [AP via WTOP]

>> D.C. police say a suspect claimed he wanted to look at an apartment for rent to gain access to a secure building, and then sexually assaulted a woman on Capitol Hill. [WJLA]

>> D.C. Fire Chief Dennis Rubin assigned a seasoned firefighter to run his new internal affairs unit last summer even though the official was under investigation for misconduct himself. [Examiner]

>> On the occasion of Mardi Gras, one local blogger pens an elegy for Lulu’s. Never forget! [Pygmalion in a Blanket]

>> “There is obviously a lot of precedent of a city switching from zones to meters and having that city’s taxi industry destroyed. Oh, wait. There isn’t.” [why.i.hate.dc]

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