Photo by Cycle the Ghost Round Dear readers, I know you want us to quit telling you how it's never gonna stop snowing, but we can't control the National Weather Service (or the weather). The latest Winter Storm Watch is calling for a potential of more than 8 inches of snow, with "a good likelihood" of more than 10 inches. The timing is still roughly the same: it'll start sometime Tuesday afternoon and continue through Wednesday afternoon. The worst part? As Capital Weather Gang writes, "Though this storm will not have the same amount of moisture as Snowmageddon, models...

It's been upgraded to a Warning, kiddos, and it's 10 to 20 inches starting at noon on Tuesday. Heaven help us....

That's the official word from OPM as of 7 p.m. tonight. Still waiting on word from WMATA....

That poor little teddy bear didn't stand a chance....

Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist. In a story that national affairs reporter Linda Diebel probably didn't expect to write, Councillor Adam Giambrone (Ward 18, Davenport) has publicly apologized for having a messy, angry, and dysfunctional transit agency secret affair with Kristen Lucas, 20, while living with his longtime "political" partner, Sarah McQuarrie. Giambrone concealed both women's existence from the other. Among the less personal details are Lucas's claim that Giambrone let her in on the TTC fare hike early and that his campaign staff showed the Toronto Star an email, which they called "threatening," that was allegedly a forgery being...

We're coming for you next, Syracuse! Chart from goldensnowglobe.com....

Photograph of Sarah Palin at the Tea Party Convention by Ed Reinke/AP After endearing herself to the Tea Party faithful—and landing herself a lot of media attention—at the Tea Party Convention this past weekend, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told her Fox News colleague Chris Wallace that of course she'd think about running for president in 2012. Palin said, "I would. I would if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family. Certainly, I would do so... I think that it would be absurd...

The Chicago Transit Authority's "Doomsday" schedule was implemented yesterday, but today is supposedly the day where riders will feel the cuts in service. I'm of the opinion CTA wasn't doing a bang-up job maintaining its bus routes and schedules when they had a full service schedule &#151 a friend Saturday called CTA the "Chicago Tardiness Authority" &#151 but I have to say that my trip from Bridgeport to my day job in Evanston was none the worse for wear. Now ask me again after the return trip home. Let's call this post an open thread: if you took the...

Photo by cmoaknd Good morning, Washington. If you're reading this at your desk this morning, count yourself among the sorry souls who still had to report to work today despite the thick layer of treacherous frozen water still coating the city. Even DCPS students got the day off today, and those poor kids never get weather-related breaks. Well, if you didn't end up getting a snow day today, don't fret. You'll get another chance tomorrow. Sigh. Speaking of Tuesday's Forecast: Upon surveying current conditions and then taking a look at the latest weather map, the Examiner's Bill Myers concludes...

Bloomberg photo by Oliver 66 on flickr. Believe it or not, Mayor Bloomberg is insisting that the NYPD's crime statistics are accurate—well, most of the time. "There's always going to be some fudging of the numbers, but it is tiny," the mayor said. "I have an enormous amount of confidence in the data." He also suggested that a study by two criminologists, which showed police precincts routinely fudge their data, may have been biased. According to Bloomberg, it was "paid for by one of the unions, so you've got to start wondering whether it was an independent study." Actually,...