Good morning, Washington. As you’ve no doubt heard, last night John McCain and Barack Obama took home victories in all three area primaries. The candidates are now off to the next set of primary states. Unfortunately, they didn’t take the weather with them. Today may not be as icy as yesterday, but it’ll be rainier, thereby maintaining the principle of conservation of awfulness.

Kaine Outlines Cuts: Faced with a slowing economy, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has proposed another set of belt-tightening budgetary measures, as WJLA details. The proposal doesn’t include any tax increases, but would decrease planned raises for teachers, slow Medicaid increases and withdraw additional money from the state’s rainy day fund.

Edwards Ousts Wynn: Senator Obama’s win in Maryland last night wasn’t the state’s only Democratic contest with national significance. Donna Edwards defeated eight-term congressman Al Wynn, as the Post reports. Unseating Wynn had become something of an online cause celebre for progressives, many of whom viewed the congressman’s ties to the energy lobby and support for President Bush’s bankruptcy reform bill as being emblematic of larger problems within the Democratic party.

Briefly Noted: William & Mary president resigns rather than get fired after ideological clashes… DARE student tips off cops to family’s pot dealing… Flu raging through College Park… Va. legislature passes animal welfare bills… Testimony of victim in furniture delivery shooting called into question as toxicology reveals he had cocaine in his system…

This Day In DCist: One year ago we were excited about snow (and an upcoming Unbuckled featuring These United States). Two years ago Bed Bath & Beyond was opening in Gallery Place and pandas were frolicking in the snow.

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