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- Federal workers are set to receive a slight pay bump. [WTOP]
- City Peeper winners. [WCP]
- Army vet announces run for Comstock’s seat in 2018. [Post]
- Can Bowser’s budget defray rising childcare costs? [WAMU]
- Woman stabbed on Metrobus on Wednesday afternoon. [Fox 5]
- How the man who might have been VP is enjoying the Senate. [Post]
- Where’s the Pulitzer for this? [Bloomberg]
- Airbnb-ing a basement more profitable than renting it monthly. [Washingtonian]
- Maryland legislature at odds over diversifying medical marijuana program. [Post]
- A convocation of four American orchestras in D.C. [New Yorker]
- How the government is turning Inauguration Day protesters into felons. [Esquire]
- Trump administration is moving quickly to build up a nationwide deportation force. [Post]
- Energy company with questionable performance scores $100 million city contract. [WCP]
- ICYMI: “It was a different time. Guys were just interested in getting together and exchanging ideas and thoughts. That was more important than money.“
- ICYMI: WJLA opts to can its story on “troubled past” of United Passenger amid backlash.
- This Day In DCist: Metro goes to The Hill and finds lots of Disney metaphors there.
Rachel Kurzius