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• The Post’s Hamil Harris reports from the D.C. Council swearing-in ceremony at the Washington Convention Center. Predictably, pretty much all of the Council members want in on some of that Obama-style change.
• New ANC commissioners were also sworn in today, and Congress Heights on the Rise has sent out a call to get more involved.
• We Love DC’s KatieT is shocked, shocked to discover that free cab rides were scarce on New Year’s Eve! Commenter Kaspar Hauser gets it right: “Somebody offers a limited resource for free, and there is not enough of the resource for everybody who wants it. We should DEMAND that someone SUPPLY some sort of THEORY of why this is so.”
• The Politico’s crack team of investigative reporters discovers that many Republicans will be heading out town for the inauguration.
• DCeiver has the crucial Annotated Inaugural Advisory: “Honestly, only a complete asshole would bring a cooler to the inauguration.”
• Prince George’s County police have made an arrest in the Christmas Eve beating of an elderly man outside a College Park church.
• Prince of Petworth explains what’s going on on Park Road NW between 14th and 17th Streets.
• Penn Quarter Living remembers Street Sense vendor Orin Andrus, who died at the corner of 11th & G NW, where he often sold his newspapers.