D.C. is better prepared than ever to handle an onslaught of selfies and live streaming.

If you’ve got anything but Verizon, full cell phone service in Metro is still a few years off.

If you don’t have Verizon, it might still be a while before you get full cell phone coverage throughout the Metro system.

Law enforcement agencies’ requests for customer information from mobile phone carriers reached at least 1.3 million in 2011. A Congressional inquiry found a staggering increase in the amount of cellphone surveillance conducted over the last five years by police across the United States.

The D.C. time and weather hotline — which, to our surprise, a whole bunch of city residents still cared deeply about despite the advent of the Internet — has finally bit the dust.

Good morning, Washington. More than 4,000 volunteers turned out for Beautification Day Saturday to help freshen up District of Columbia public schools, making it the largest group since the annual spruce up event was established in 2005. Volunteers planted flower beds, cleared weeds, picked up trash, and painted buildings at over 100 schools throughout the city.

With vocal demonstrations, a strike by unionized Verizon workers has officially arrived around the D.C. region.

UPDATE: Looks like we might have helped to blow the service’s cover — we tried calling the service again later this morning and were greeted by a message stating that Verizon would no longer be maintaining the service. Those of you who still use the service will have to keep your fingers crossed that another organization picks up the contract to keep the hotline alive.

I remember once as a kid calling the time service over and over, on a bored rainy day. It seemed so funny to me that you could call a number and get the time of day, as if you couldn’t just look at a clock. Well, it turns out you won’t be able to do that, nor get the weather via hotline, anymore.

According to a new report at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, people who live in low-income areas of Washington get far less bang-for-their-buck when it comes to internet service.