Rachel Sadon- What the first sofa in Virginia might have looked like. [Post]
- Where Target is taking over. [UrbanTurf]
- After a bitter debate, D.C. lawmakers voted against giving a reprieve to students who didn’t know about a change in admissions rules at one of the city’s most competitive high schools. [Post]
- School closings. [Post]
- Passenger traffic is up at Dulles, stagnant at DCA. [WBJ]
- The D.C. Preservation League wants to make Judiciary Square a historic district. [Curbed]
- Payless will be closing two dozen stores in the D.C. area. [WBJ]
- On the “ethos of performative prankster-style protest wired into the District of Columbia’s history.” [AP via the Afro]
- It’s (somehow) costing Northern Virginia $1 million an hour to respond to this snowstorm. [WTOP]
- Some want to change the name of Arlington’s Nauck neighborhood. [ARLnow]
- Here’s what is currently wrong with Metro, according to federal inspection reports. [WTOP]
- Seen these faux tickets? [Popville]
- State legislators in Virginia move to allow localities to waive fees for affordable housing developments. [ARLnow]
- The latest in a lawsuit accusing the Washington Teachers’ Union of firing a gay man because of his sexual orientation. [Blade]
- “A disgraced appointee of Mayor Muriel Bowser” will be the keynote speaker at the University of the District of Columbia’s Founders’ Day celebration. [WCP]
- Remember Joe Morrissey, the guy who had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old employee and later won a special election to the House of Delegates from jail? He wants to run again. [Post]
- ICYMI: That “white women yoga” group was a media stunt.
- ICYMI: Atlas Brew Works is opening a second brewery in Navy Yard.
- This Day in DCist: We never did figure out what that petroleum smell was.
A magnolia tree catches some snow.
