Good morning, Washington, and welcome to the first day of the Obama presidency. Yesterday didn’t go too badly, huh? At the moment it looks as if D.C. hosted close to two million people without so much as a single arrest. If you spent the day out in the cold and away from your computer, you can click here to catch up on our extensive inauguration coverage. As you might expect there isn’t a lot of non-inaugural news today, so we’ll keep this morning roundup short and sweet. Stay tuned for posts throughout the day examining how the city handled the big event and its aftermath.

Va. Politics Heats Up: Yesterday’s Washington Post article about the contentious prospects for this session of the Virginia General Assembly — which is confronting not only a budget shortfall but also a potential change in its majority party — is already looking prescient. Today’s Post reports that Va. Republicans are claiming that governor and newly-minted DNC chair Tim Kaine has painted an overly optimistic portrait of the state’s finances, and that his proposed budget cuts don’t go nearly far enough. More immediately, the February special election in Fairfax is looking to be hard fought, too: the Post also discusses that race and the possibility of the county board of supervisors shifting from Democratic to Republican control.

Briefly Noted: More than 4,000 ticket holders weren’t able to make it past security yesterday due to screening delays… This winter has been unusually rough on area pipes… Public safety initiatives may be among trimmed programs as Md. deals with budget shortfall… As you might imagine, yesterday marked a new Metro ridership record… Still no sightings of convicted murderer who escaped from Maryland prison over the weekend… BREAKING: LARGE CROWDS GENERATE TRASH…

This Day in DCist: One year ago we got our hopes up about baby elephants while Jimmy’s Tire Shop burned.

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