“The path this country has taken has never been a straight line. We zig and zag.”

Newsflash: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) still doesn’t get D.C. budget autonomy.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will speak at Howard University tomorrow.

In his annual State of the District Address yesterday, Mayor Vince Gray celebrated the city’s progress while warning that investments still had to be made to ensure that D.C. remains affordable for all.

No one is yet totally sure what caused a Jumbotron by the Washington Monument to go on the fritz during President Obama’s inaugural speech last week.

A federal judge again found that D.C.’s rules for how long event-related and non-event signs can stay up on public property are unconstitutional.

The president and Sasha and Malia Obama watched the speech from the Treaty Room of the White House.

Mayor Vince Gray played the sunny optimist last night in delivering his second State of the District address. In a 54-minute speech before a packed house at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, the mayor portrayed the District as an island of economic stability and growth.

Mayor Vince Gray will deliver his second — and hopefully, way shorter — State of the District speech on February 7, 2012.

Tonight President Barack Obama will deliver his third State of the Union address, and as usual plenty of roads around the U.S. Capitol will be closed off to traffic as of 7 p.m. and remain blocked until after Obama finishes his 9 p.m. address.