- Ballou Senior High School needs books!
- It’s more affordable to buy a home than rent in the Washington market, according to this neat-looking infographic.
- Metro will be single-tracking between Friendship Heights and Medical Center on the Red Line on weekdays between today and February 11. Of course, the Red Line has been single-tracking most weekdays of late, just not on purpose.
- Prince of Petworth has a ton of details on the planned renovations to the Petworth Safeway, which he dubs “the biggest news to hit Petworth/Georgia Ave since the metro station opened.”
- Under Vince Gray, agency directors will apparently be allowed to answer questions with only minimal executive bureaucracy.
- Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander signed off on a demonstration by organized labor advocates scheduled to take place on the steps of the Wilson Building, but says she never agreed to speak at the event, as organizers claimed.
- Hawk update! “In addition to all the State of the Union madness in this town today, the Library of Congress has events booked involving the first lady and a few Cabinet secretaries, so they are halting capture attempts for today.”
- Fascinating read by Bradford Plumer at The New Republic on why the Mafia never found a foothold in D.C.
- Three West Virginia counties could be allowed to vote on whether they should secede and join Virginia. I’m not sure whether this is good for George Allen or not; on the plus side, that’s more Republicans, on the other, Allen’s had a bit of a checkered history when trying to campaign in such far reaches of the state.
- I guess the sequel to Taken will culminate in a much less mobile Liam Neeson getting taken down by Federal agents in rural Maryland.
- Taco Bell’s beef isn’t 100 percent beef. Uh, duh?
Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie.
