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Happy Monday. Mayor Muriel Bowser defended her support of Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg in a WaPo interview posted over the weekend, saying no candidate is perfect.

TGIF! Long a bottleneck even for express buses, the stretch of 14th Street NW through Columbia Heights is slated to get dedicated bus lanes for the next year as a pilot program.

Happy Thursday. Former officers with the Metro Transit Police told the DC Council yesterday they felt pressured to make arrests. The bad news adds onto the WaPo report from last week that some officers at the department held a competition…

Happy Wednesday. The District's urgent need for additional affordable housing comes up frequently, but a related matter — ensuring safe living conditions in existing units — isn't raised as often.

Happy Tuesday. DC's revitalization can be told through many stories, and one involves the city's juvenile detention reforms.

Happy Presidents Day! Mayor Muriel Bowser is having a rough time making the rounds of the national media as a top surrogate for Michael Bloomberg.

TGIF! The DC Council last year did not advance a bill to decriminalize sex work. Now there's a national group looking to put the issue on the ballot for voters to decide.

Happy Thursday. After news that Metro Transit Police arrested a 13-year-old boy, WaPo reports that Metro's officers held a contest last year to encourage arrests.

Happy Wednesday. Statehood for DC will likely pass the U.S. House for the first time ever, after legislation advanced out of committee yesterday on a 21-16 vote.

Happy Tuesday. Ever so briefly at today’s House committee markup of DC statehood, the ranking Republican — speaking on an amendment to the bill — echoed the comments that Democratic proponents had offered earlier on behalf of the…

Happy Monday. Can campaigning for Michael Bloomberg give Muriel Bowser a path to becoming a national figure? Will it put a spotlight on DC's mayor not seen since the days of Adrian Fenty?

TGIF! DC's homeland security director delayed the release of a cybersecurity report for over a year, and yesterday he got a shellacking at a DC Council hearing from Charles Allen, whose committee oversees his agency.

Happy Thursday. The next big ballot initiative in DC could reduce local enforcement of laws against 'magic mushrooms' and psychedelic drugs, if supporters can gather more than 25,000 signatures in time for November.

Good Wednesday morning. Washington Metropolitan, the struggling school set for closure, came one council member's vote short of staying open yesterday.

Good Tuesday morning. Mayor Muriel Bowser may have cut off a line of attack from her left-leaning critics in the education world, declaring yesterday that she will increase the spending formula for public school students by 4%.

A clarification on this morning's newsletter: Our introductory item today cited Jack Evans' criticism of the idea of publicly financed campaigns in his responses to a 2016 questionnaire from the DC chapter of the Sierra Club. The item…

Good Monday morning. Jack Evans as council member in 2016 slammed the idea of publicly financed campaigns, telling advocates he didn't believe “tax dollars should be spent on political campaigns.”

TGIF! Michael Bloomberg is amassing a club of mayors to back his unconventional bid for the Democrats' presidential nomination, and Muriel Bowser is his newest surrogate.

Good Thursday morning. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been talking up ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg since word got out he would enter the presidential race. Bowser will endorse Bloomberg in H Street NE today, WaPo reports.

Good Wednesday morning. WaPo yesterday walked Georgetown, home to Jack Evans, to find out that even some past supporters can't stomach him running again — particularly so soon.