Every Friday, local politics geeks wake at the crack of dawn in expectation of that week’s installment of the D.C. Register, the city official compendium of laws that are taking effect, proposed D.C. Council resolutions, and mayoral orders and rules. It’s not particularly exciting reading, but it’s key to knowing exactly what’s happening in your city.

Today, as with every Friday until our eyes fall out, we’ll read the current week’s D.C. Register so you don’t have to, picking out some of the most important and interesting tidbits along the way. We’ll try to make it fun — as fun as reading municipal regulations can be, anyway.

February 11, 2011

Fun Facts of the Week: Apparently escaping from a juvenile detention facility wasn’t a crime until now … D.C. is looking for an auditor — and a Virginia company is leading the search … The Chinese get themselves a new embassy so the U.S. can get itself a new annex in Beijing … Notaries Public get all the attention.