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Happy Thursday. The lone holdout for statehood in the Washington area's congressional delegation has given his support. Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer wrote in a WaPo op-ed posted this morning that he is "hesitant" no more in supporting…

Good Wednesday morning. After much pontificating about Muriel Bowser not being able to sway the DC Council, the mayor got a key triumph with yesterday’s vote to approve the fiscal 2020 budget.

Good Tuesday morning. Today the DC Council votes for the final time on the fiscal 2020 budget. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s attempt to use millions from Events DC’s reserves to make urgent public housing repairs is still being…

TGIF! ‘Jack Evans’ clients had interests before District government’ is A1 WaPo today, below-the-fold.

Good Thursday morning. Hillary Clinton will be in Congress Heights today, at GW University’s Rodham Institute Summit on health.

Good Wednesday morning. Elissa Silverman and Muriel Bowser's administration have been in a public spat over funding for workforce development and employment programs. When Silverman’s committee with oversight over the Department of…

Good Tuesday morning. DL’s notebook came up empty last night at ANC 4B — at least as far as the expected resolution to “reprimand Brandon Todd," which never came up. Printer troubles were to blame for the unprinted resolution, apparently. …

Happy Monday. A new pro-statehood coalition, “51 for 51,” will kick off tomorrow to press statehood as an issue during the Democratic presidential primary.

Good Thursday morning. There are now two candidates who have declared they are running against Jack Evans for the Ward 2 DC Council seat he's held since 1991, and both say they will use the new publicly financed campaign system.

Happy Wednesday. The legal battle over a former Sanford Capital property in Congress Heights continued in court today.

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council gave initial approval today to the 2020 budget and related legislation with only one close vote. Amid multiple references to broken promises, it came on an unsuccessful amendment that would have backed the…

Happy Monday. We’ve all heard Muriel Bowser wants 36,000 new residential units by 2025 — with a third of them qualifying as affordable housing — and last Friday she unveiled the first step: public meetings!

TGIF! Phil Mendelson is sticking with his proposed changes to open records laws through a budget provision despite calls for a public hearing.

Happy Thursday. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Mayor Muriel Bowser are butting heads. Mendelson might not have enough votes to block Bowser’s commercial tax hikes. But now he says the DC Council will “say no new permits to construct…

Happy Wednesday. Council members are holed up today around a conference table discussing changes made to the mayor’s budget proposal by committees. They're about to return from a short break so members could get lunch.

Happy Tuesday. The Bowser administration yesterday called a group of reporters to the Wilson Building to vent about proposed changes made by DC Council committees to the mayor’s spending plan.

Good Monday morning. The DC Council's Health Committee made a little-noticed move last Thursday, when Ward 7's Vince Gray reversed his support for legislation billed as expediting the construction of a new hospital in Ward 8.

TGIF! A family of four seeking a “modest yet adequate” lifestyle in the Washington area needs to make at least $105,539, WAMU reports …

Happy Thursday. It’s a green day for Muriel Bowser, with the mayor announcing her legislation to legalize the sale of marijuana in the city. The news was laid out in the Post this morning.

Happy May Day. Some amendments to the mayor’s budget proposal are public, with the release of DC Council committee reports, which are being voted on this week.