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• Big news for Logan Circle bars and restaurants, via 14th and You: ANC2f has voted to withhold any protests against neighborhood businesses who have voluntary agreements with the ANC and who register to stay open late during inauguration weekend. Could this be a sign of similar moves by other ANCs to allow voluntary agreements to fall by the wayside during those four days in January?
• Police are searching for Alexis Glover, a 13-year-old developmentally disabled Manassas girl who ran away yesterday afternoon. Alexis is African American, 5 feet 3 and weighs 85 pounds. Prince William County police ask anyone who sees her to call 703-792-6500.
• Even the White House is feeling the real estate market downturn: it’s apparently worth $23 million less now than it was a year ago.
• The Washington Times is estimating that the final cost of Nationals Park is actually $693 million. Sure makes $611 million seem like a steal!
• Megan McArdle notices Craigslist scammers are targeting Obama administration staffers who don’t know their way around the Washington rental market.
• Ryan Avent on the Silver line approval: “Dumb as a post Virginia representative Frank Wolf was quoted as saying, ‘God bless Mary Peters,’ in gratitude for the millions of dollars she forced the state of Virginia to basically flush down the toilet. Truly, no one knows how to waste taxpayer money like ideologues committed to incompetently delaying worthwhile projects for reasons unclear even to themselves. Enjoy your retirement, Ma Pete.”