- A 21-year-old short-track speed skater from Reston is headed to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. [Washingtonian]
- The omicron surge has divided local parents and educators over in-person schooling. [Post]
- What Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin could realistically do with his school-choice agenda. [Virginia Mercury]
- Three people were killed in a collision with a snowplow in Montgomery County last night. [WTOP]
- Wouldn’t be a D.C. snowstorm without Pat Collins and his snow stick. [NBC 4]
- This Maryland delegate lives almost completely off the grid. [Maryland Matters]
- Maryland-based Novavax could be ready to submit its COVID-19 vaccine for FDA approval within weeks. [WTOP]
- Someone is already running for a Virginia House of Delegates seat in Arlington that was literally just created last week. [ARLNow]
- A man surprised his girlfriend with a serenade from a mariachi band in Silver Spring. [WUSA 9]
- It’ll be sunny today, but temperatures are only creeping into the high 30s. [CWG]
- ICYMI: A new comedy club is planned to open in early 2022 at the old Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe spot in Adams Morgan.
- ICYMI: Politics and Prose employees successfully unionized.
- This Day in DCist: The ANSWER Coalition planned its counterprotest for Trump’s inauguration.
Colleen Grablick