Natalie Delgadillo- A Women’s March protester was arrested for allegedly inappropriately touching an Infowars reporter. [Post]
- A DHS audit found that a social services provider that manages a Ward 7 shelter falsified personnel documentation in its original bid to run the shelter. [WCP]
- “The best way I can describe it is that for the last year of my life, I’d been in love with a stranger.” [Washingtonian]
- The Penn Line on MARC is suffering major delays this morning due to an unscheduled repair. [Post]
- Why did the city suddenly stop an opioid addiction prevention program that appeared to be helping people? [WCP]
- Four fires broke out across the region yesterday. [WTOP]
- Hogan wants huge tax cuts in Maryland, but how is he going to balance the budget? [WAMU]
- When it’s this windy, it’s harder to land planes. [NBC Washington]
- “We’re going to make it unless we die:” the city’s homeless residents are bracing for this frigid weather. [Post]
- Councilmember Trayon White holds Bowser’s feet to the fire on the uptick in homicides. [The Washington Informer]
- Montgomery County’s police chief is retiring after 15 years. [FOX 5]
- The city has a “preference points” system in place meant to help businesses east of the river win contracts. Often, they say, it doesn’t. [WCP]
- D.C. residents gave the new school chancellor some advice on Wednesday night. [Post]
- ICYMI: See “Black Panther” for free at these AMC theaters starting Friday.
- ICYMI: The Exorcist steps are a historical landmark now.
- This Day in DCist: Four theories about the National Zoo’s escaped bobcat Ollie.
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