D.C. bleeding millions a week in lost Medicaid funds

With history as a guide, we can count on a few everyday events in the nation’s capital on this first day of February. This being a Tuesday, the city council will convene a legislative meeting, during which it will propose a number of ceremonial resolutions; on Tuesday it will take up “Soul Searchers Band and Chuck Brown as the True Originators of Go-Go Recognition Resolution of 2011.”

There’s a 50-50 chance at least one person will be the victim of homicide, which is much better than it was 20 years ago, when odds favored a killing a day.