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We'll have our regular online chat at noon today. Use this link. There's a lot going on right now for us to talk about.

The congestion in downtown Washington has been brutal, and it's likely to stay that way for more than a week. We have the National Cherry Blossom Festival continuing, the baseball season starting at Nationals Park and an international nuclear security summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center next Monday and Tuesday.

Metro has just wrapped up its hearings on the budget crisis and will start making decisions this month.

The region's big road construction projects are launching major work this month. Some of them will even get done this year.