Welcome back to work, Washington. Perhaps you’re struggling to focus this morning, having only barely recovered from the weekend’s Halloween festivities. Perhaps you just had a difficult time extricating yourself from your bed on this first cold morning of the year. Whatever the case may be, DCist recommends a strong cup of coffee with a dash of Rumbler to get your motor running today. The Rumbler is described as a “high-tech blaster” being used in…

Anyone who has been in this town for more than a few hours knows that the feeding frenzy resulting from federal spending bills outdoes just about anything you’ve seen on the Discovery Channel. Well, it’s check cuttin’ time in D.C., and the District, Virginia, and Maryland are each getting a slice of the pie. Apparently, the region’s planners did not read last Tuesday’s DCist transportation column, because most of the money is going to the…