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Happy Wednesday. The powerful chair of the Finance and Revenue Committee looked dejected at the DC Council’s breakfast yesterday morning. The usually talkative Jack Evans was muted, speaking briefly in a fruitless pitch to sway council…

Good Tuesday morning from the Wilson Building, where Council Chairman Phil Mendelson just announced he will introduce a reprimand resolution today on Jack Evans, condemning him for sending business proposals to lobbying firms.

Good Monday morning. Some of the top remedies for opioid overdose deaths announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser more than two months ago remain in the planning stages, WaPo reports.

TGIF! The District will face a tricky budget picture after losing $47 million in revenue due to the government shutdown.

Happy Thursday. WaPo has a copy of a federal grand jury subpoena seeking documents related to Jack Evans and his support of a 2016 bill that would have helped digital sign company Digi Outdoor Media.

Happy Wednesday. After days of silence over whether he had actually dropped his inquiry into DC sole-sourcing a contract for sports gambling, Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay tells WaPo he still wants answers.

Good Tuesday morning. CNN held a “town hall” show with Bernie Sanders last night in DC, where two ANC commissioners in the audience got to ask questions to the Democratic presidential candidate.

Good Monday morning. The Education Committee this afternoon will move the nomination of Lewis Ferebee for DCPS chancellor, which is expected to pass.

TGIF! Muriel Bowser is doubling down on her nominee to the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability, again picking the same Republican lawyer whose nomination Charles Allen, the chair of the council’s judiciary committee, didn’t move…

Good Thursday morning. City Paper reports on how DC mismanaged a lead remediation grant from the federal government that was first awarded in 2012. Until four months ago, a DC program called Lead Safe Washington gave assistance to help…

Good Wednesday morning. Snow is forecast to change to sleet around midday, according to the Capital Weather Gang.

Good Tuesday morning. The top three education leaders in DC all have something in common: They went through billionaire Eli Broad educational leadership program.

Good Monday morning and happy birthday to George Washington. A new principal at Bridges Public Charter let go one of the school’s most beloved teachers, Liz Koenig, who also happens to be an activist for greater transparency in charters.

TGIF. Advocates for the incarcerated are raising the situation at a facility next to DC Jail, where DCist reports that inmates for the first time in months were allowed to go outdoors.

Happy Valentine's Day. Ward 4 Council member Brandon Todd walked up to applause last night in Chevy Chase, where he announced he wanted the city to temporarily halt plans to build rain gardens in Barnaby Woods following a neighborhood…

Happy Wednesday. Lewis Ferebee testified for five hours until 11:40 p.m. last night at the last of the DC Council's three hearings on whether to confirm him as DC Public Schools chancellor.

Good Tuesday morning. DC’s fire chief said his department has no backup ladder trucks even as emergency calls are increasing.

Good Monday morning. WaPo’s Perry Stein has been following acting DC Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee’s visits to schools in advance of the DC Council's last hearing on his nomination tomorrow afternoon.

TGIF! Jack Evans sought to rally DC Dems last night to support an early Democratic primary on April 28, 2020. Instead, no consensus emerged — and a few activists even suggested Evans was seeking the earlier primary to disadvantage any…

Good Thursday morning. City Paper has an interview with the Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott, the former manager of the Park Southern apartment complex in Southeast indicted on federal charges.