As expected, a campaign aide to Mayor Vince Gray pleaded guilty today to lying to federal investigators about his role in a scheme to pay fringe mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown to stay in the 2010 race and attack Mayor Adrian Fenty.

It was on this day two years ago that the District dug itself out of 18 inches of snow. Today, well, it’s bone dry and seasonably chilly.

Tea Partiers, police, dogs, guns, streetcars, John Catoe, cyclists, plastic bags, bloggers’ rights, Mommy happy hours, movies, gay marriage…and ESPN Zone: here it is, the list of the most popular DCist posts of 2010. Happy New Year!