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Good Tuesday morning. The DC Council will presumably ask some hard questions today over what went wrong during the renovation of the historic Franklin School, where workers transforming the building into a museum trashed its interior,…

Happy snow day. Call it trial by fire — on Saturday, the DC Office of Planning's new director came before a hundred land-use activists, including some of the most vocal critics of the city's development policies. 

TGIF! Herroner today signed into law emergency legislation to allow the District to issue marriage licenses during the federal shutdown, elevating the Secretary of the District of Columbia's power to oversee weddings. License applications,…

Good Thursday morning. Hear Green Teamers talk about themselves, and you too might feel warm and fuzzy inside. In a City Paper story about Brandon Todd’s potentially fading popularity in Ward 4, former Council member Bill Lightfoot talks up…

Happy Wednesday. The District had its eighth homicide of the year yesterday, when a 46-year-old man in Northwest was stabbed and killed, WaPo reports.

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council met for its first legislative meeting of the new session today, but an emergency measure on sports wagering was taken off the agenda, delaying its implementation.

Good Monday morning. Muriel Bowser will hold her first general press conference of the year around noon. Meanwhile, the DC Council is preparing for tomorrow's legislative meeting, its first of the new term.

TGIF! Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is backing DC’s statehood bill, formally reintroduced yesterday to a Democratic-controlled U.S. House.

Good Thursday morning. The podium at the DC inauguration isn’t quite the megaphone to connect with voters. It is, however, an opportunity to impress the city’s political class who gather every four years inside the convention center,…

Good Wednesday morning and happy new year. Today Muriel Bowser will officially begin her second term, becoming the third elected DC mayor to serve more than four years since the District gained home rule in 1974. The ceremony begins at the …

Happy New Year’s Eve! In 2019, statehood will remain a long shot, but here is a menu of smaller and symbolic achievements the city hopes to gain with Democratic control of the House:

Happy Christmas Eve. The mayor’s nominee for schools chancellor will have questions to answer for his confirmation next year over how he handled a sexual abuse case when he led Indianapolis Public Schools.

The comprehensive DC politics roundup, by Cuneyt Dil: TGIF! There's front-page news about Jack Evans receiving an estimated $100K in stock from a digital sign company before trying to push for emergency legislation to benefit the company. …