- Now that he’s done serving his prison time (for bribery), Michael A. Brown apparently wants to run for a seat on the D.C. Council again. [WCP]
- Food delivery robots are now serving George Mason University. [WBJ]
- Two teenagers accused of the beating a 69-year-old dog walker are linked to other assaults, according to court documents. [NBC4]
- Where dollar stores are located. [UrbanTurf]
- Which federal workers qualify for unemployment. [WTOP]
- Shutdown threatens major spring art exhibition. [Post]
- Black federal workers in Prince George’s County explain how the shutdown is affecting them. [WAMU]
- BWI is taking up food donations for TSA workers. [WJLA]
- Mark Warner introduces the Stop STUPIDITY (Shutdowns Transferring Unnecessary Pain and Inflicting Damage In The Coming Years) Act. [WTOP]
- A Creole kitchen is popping up in Columbia Heights’ Bar Roubaix through Mardi Gras. [Popville]
- This app wants to be the Uber of bar tabs. [WCP]
- Joan of Arc’s statue gets an unsanctioned addition. [Reddit]
- Which D.C.-area neighborhoods are going to get a lot more expensive in the years to come. [Washingtonian]
- Two pit bull puppies were stolen at gunpoint. [NBC4]
- The deal with the climate change bill that Bowser signed last week. [GGW]
- The City Paper gets a new publisher. [WCP]
- The National Park Service is fixing huge potholes on the Memorial Bridge. [NBC4]
- And a giant sinkhole opened up near the White House. [NBC4]
- ICYMI: When the Malort is gone, some people mourn.
- ICYMI: The D.C. Council overrode the mayor’s veto on fare evasion decriminalization.
- This Day in DCist: Snowzilla was a rough time to be a rat.
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Rachel Sadon