- Legislation to legalize gay marriage in Maryland is getting closer and closer to securing the number of votes it needs to pass the state Senate, thanks in no small part to the toxic rhetoric utilized by the bill’s opponents.
- D.C. attorney general Irv Nathan says the office is sticking with urine tests to prosecute drunk drivers until more reliable breath analysis technology can be procured.
- Freeman Klopott reports that the Metropolitan Police Department technically has two chiefs now: former assistant chief of police Alfred Durham has been promoted to the rank of chief of police.
- If the monthly electric bill for your efficiency apartment is over $400, yeah, there’s probably an issue.
- The College of William and Mary’s mascot, so famously dubbed a “rare, pantsless, tailed eagle” by W&M grad Jon Stewart, can now be appropriately outfitted, thanks to modern technology. What an age we live in.
- Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire on the 6000 block of Edsall Road in
Arlington Alexandria this afternoon.
- If you hear fighter jets overhead tonight, don’t fret — it’s just a drill.
- Want to watch Mayor Vince Gray’s weekly press conference? (If you do, here’s some documents that you might want to parse through while you watch.)
- The Capital Weather Gang reminds us that, despite the recent warm-up, there’s actually a good chance that we might get some more snow before winter ends.
- Chad Dukes argues that the Redskins should just rid themselves of Albert Haynesworth now.
- Insert your own Sublime-related joke here.
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