- By now, you’ve probably heard about the “X-class flare” that was released by the sun on Valentine’s Day and is due to hit Earth today. Not to fear: while it was the largest flare so far in the solar cycle (the sun is going into maximum for the next few years), we won’t be affected anymore than perhaps some radio communications disturbance and hopefully getting some pretty spectacular aurora. D.C. is a little too far south to see it, so click over to the AuroraMax camera providing livefeed from Yellowknife, Canada starting just after dusk.
- D.C. Water has approved a budget calling for an increase of a little over fifty cents per month on the average bills.
- The 18-year-old District ward accused of killing American University professor Sue Ann Marcum in Maryland last October is back in District custody after he went missing last month, breaking the conditions of his release.
- Seriously, let’s get some ladies up in this D.C. Council race.
- Thinking about getting a degree in clinical psychology from UDC? Well, you might be too late — that’s one of 17 majors the college is considering dropping.
- Former Meet the Press moderator Bill Monroe died today. He was 90.
- Former DDOT director Gabe Klein slams critical Gray transition report: “It really reflects poorly on the transition team and, in reality, the administration.”
- New York City has a map which details all of the service requests made to 311. (Come on — make it happen, OCTO!)
- Here’s the guy you’re buying your gas from, D.C.
- Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema claims that he spends $70,000 a year on dining. Wow.
- ABC7 investigates bus clustering, discovers that buses in D.C. do, in fact, tend to cluster and it is annoying.
- Michael Neibauer reports that one-half of one percent of all D.C. property accounts for a whopping 22 percent of the city’s property tax revenue.
- The New York Times looks at the revitalization of Barracks Row.
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