- The city’s Public Service Commission will get their chance to rake Pepco over the coals during a hearing scheduled for February 10.
- Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells has a new Facebook page, and he wants to know what you think about his snow shoveling legislation proposal.
- Five people, including two firefighters, were injured when a car and an ambulance collided at the intersection of Benning Road and Minnesota Avenue NE this morning.
- 12 U.S. Senators have signed off on a letter to the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior to restore the Solar Decathlon to the National Mall.
- GOOD has, uh, good things to say about the bike shelter outside Union Station.
- Be watchful if you’re fiddling with your iPhone near the exit of a Metro train — that’s when thieves prefer to strike.
- At-large Council candidate Bryan Weaver has hired a former Clinton administration official, Minyon Moore, to chair his campaign.
- A former Metropolitan Police Department officer has admitted to operating an illegal dice gambling operation out of his home in Maryland; Darrell Alphonso Carter will be sentenced in May.
- Metro Weekly reports on a minor dust-up between the District’s Office of GLBT Affairs and the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit. The Office of GLBT Affairs apparently changed its phone number shortly after the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit purchased keychains with the Office’s old number on it.
- Ever been out at a restaurant and thought you could give it a better name? Well, now’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is.