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Good morning, Washington. We don’t know about you, but after spending a mostly beautiful weekend enjoying the spring and celebrating Mother Earth, waking up to this cold, wet, excessively unpleasant day has made us a little grumpy. In search of solace, we turn, as we so often do, to the Capital Weather Gang, who inform us that the decision to actually get out of bed, report to work and not get fired today should be repaid sometime around … Thursday. Writes Dan Stillman: “While thunderstorms could strike this evening and shower chances hang around into Wednesday, Thursday through the weekend will be worth the wait if anticipated sunshine and increasingly warm temperatures come true.” Hrm. As Eeyore would say, “Ohhh-kayyy.”

More Cab Drivers Headed for D.C. Streets The Examiner reports that more than 1,000 people have taken the exam to become licensed to drive a taxicab in the District since testing began again earlier this year. The potential increase in the number of cab drivers in already cab-saturated D.C. comes at a time when drivers are complaining that the meter rates are too low — making it a little hard to swallow that taxi drivers are really struggling that badly when so many more people would like to drive cabs.

How Many Bodyguards Does Ike Leggett Need? Everyone agrees we need to keep our elected officials safe, but just exactly how much protection does the Montgomery County Executive really require? According to Ike Leggett’s latest budget proposal, he needs four bodyguards, at a cost of $90,000 each, according to the Examiner. This kind of security detail has apparently been in place since the Beltway sniper attacks in 2002. Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson has three bodyguards, while the leaders of Alexandria and Fairfax County have none at all.

Briefly Noted: Man and boy struck and killed by SUV near Largo … Man appears to have killed wife, 3 kids, and himself in Middletown, Md. home … Democrats hold first Va. governor’s race debate … Officer-involved shooting near Capitol Heights Metro station in PG County.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton made her famous “I will not yield” speech on the House floor, and in 2006, then-Mayor Anthony Williams was talking church parking.