Groundhog Day Drama

Could this year's Groundhog Day lead to an animal bite suit? Monday as Punxsutawney Phil was predicting six more weeks of winter, a different groundhog in Sun Prairie was getting a bit aggressive, reports CBS. As Mayor Jonathan Freund announced groundhog Jimmy's prediction, Jimmy bit the Mayor on the ear. It's not the first troubled Groundhog Day (aside from Bill Murray's, of course); CBS also reports that last year in New York, the groundhog fell from Mayor Bill de Blasio's arms and later died from internal injuries.

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In Bisnow's story "The Seahawks' DC Connection" in our last issue, we would like to acknowledge that the friendly wager between Beveridge & Diamond's DC and Boston offices was first reported by the National Law Journal.

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