We’ve reached another Friday, D.C., but if those light flurries that accompanied you on your way into work this morning gave you visions of a leisurely Saturday snowball fight, you’ll likely end up disappointed. Very little accumulation is expected from these flakes, and the weekend will see temperatures back in the upper 40s, with a possibility of some light rain on Saturday morning, according to CapitalWeather.com. If this update doesn’t satisfy your weather nerd urges,…

Washington, D.C. makes yet another top ten list. A new study names our beloved city as the 8th gayest in the country. Frankly, a couple of us here at DCist thought we were gayer than that. The study, by Gary J. Gates of UCLA’s Williams Institute, analyzed data on same-sex couples from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses along with that from American Community Surveys (ACS) between 2002 and 2006. Cities and states were ranked…

An internal D.C. audit of the contract with Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, which has managed the District’s parking meters since the 1990s, found that privatization has cost about $2.2 million more than it would have if government employees had done the work themselves. Even lone D.C. Council Republican Carol Schwartz (R – At-Large) admitted to the Examiner that privatization hasn’t actually maximized the District’s economic efficiency. Quel libertarian nightmare! More from the Examiner’s story:DDOT managers…