Politics

• Gingrich professes shock at Romney’s ‘dishonest’ debate performance
• Romney says Gingrich is ‘like Goldilocks’
• Obama ally suggests administration is undermining Endangered Species Act
• Rick Perry’s back in Texas, and some wonder if he’s lost political power there
• Obama, Biden rally Democrats at annual retreat

Local Business

• Contractors brace for federal spending cuts
• Costco Wholesale drives deeper into Washington area
• $10 million tennis facility to open in Marshall Heights in September
• Maryland creates online database of business incentives
• Forty years of dressing Washington

Business

• Aneesh Chopra, White House technology chief, expected to run for Va. lieutenant governor
• Iceland sharply divided on joining E.U. amid debt crisis
• Report: Facebook to file IPO next Wednesday
• How a search for the cheapest price on drugs led to a business idea
• Washington auto dealers see sales pick up

Technology

• Twitter faces accusations of censorship; users plan Saturday boycott
• European parliament’s ACTA monitor quits in protest
• Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House, likely to run for Virginia lieutenant governor
• Report: Facebook to file IPO next Wednesday
• Chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra to step down

Small Business

Law

• Jennifer Rubin: Romney vs. Obamacare
• In Florida, GOP candidates praise Marco Rubio, a favorite for running mate
• Virginia to transform system of caring for developmentally disabled
• Most Americans expect SCOTUS to overturn health care law’s individual mandate
• State of the Union proposals: What might pass?