• Got a couple hours to waste? Perhaps you’re looking for a heavy non-chemical sedative? Here, try the full text of Mayor Vince Gray’s State of the District address.
  • Yup, Metro really needs to hold on to that $150 million in federal funding.
  • Matt Yglesias on the Adams Morgan liquor license moratorium: “An even more radical alternative would be to just welcome the idea of more bars opening in Adams-Morgan. You can think of that area as possessing a valuable natural resource known as ‘unpleasant people want to go drinking there.'”
  • Kytja Weir relays the story of 65 Metro riders who, after spending hours on a bus and getting stranded in the middle of the night during the snowstorm on January 26, were shuttled around the rail system by Metro workers so that they could get home.
  • U.S. News and World Report says that Washington Hospital Center is the best hospital in the Washington region.
  • Admission to this summer’s Capital Fringe Festival is going to set you back a couple extra bucks.
  • Amtrak finally gets on this Twitter thing.
  • Why does Alexandria hate food trucks?
  • Marion Barry says he’d rather see streetcar funds go to education, ignoring fact that said funds will likely come from from a federal government grant, and hence, can’t be used for education.
  • The National Museum of American History takes a look at a Civil War-era antebellum map of D.C.
  • The D.C. Council’s subcommittee on redistricting now has its own website.
  • Wow, people in Arlington get pretty fired up when it comes to parking regulations.
  • Way to deceive Gage Muckleroy, Radiohead.