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Good Wednesday morning. Watchdog group Public Citizen released a new report on constituent service funds, finding that only a quarter of the spending from elected officials' funds served “urgent constituent needs.”

Good Tuesday morning. DC auditor Kathy Patterson certainly surprised politics watchers with her response to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget proposal, calling it “not fiscally responsible” before the DC Council yesterday.

Good Monday morning. Today is the first day of Potholepalooza to patch up some of the city’s busted-up roads. Some people are tweeting their potholes directly to the mayor.

TGIF! Mayor Muriel Bowser this morning testified about her budget to the DC Council, where Chairman Phil Mendelson says her budget proposal gives "scraps" for public education.

Happy Thursday. City Paper has a cover profile of Phil Mendelson today, with tidbits like this: “Chuck Thies, a local political consultant who ran Mendelson’s 2002 re-election campaign, has long referred to the chairman as Mr. Magoo—a man…

Happy budget day. Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed $15.5 billion budget makes new investments in affordable housing — as we already knew from her State of the District Address on Monday.

Happy Tuesday. Call it an Enhanced Reprimand: the DC Council unanimously voted to approve a resolution reprimanding Jack Evans that was amended today to strip two agencies from his Finance and Revenue Committee. Another vote in two weeks…

Good Monday morning. Mayor Muriel Bowser will give her State of the District Address this evening at the University of the District of Columbia.

TGIF! Council members are at a retreat at the convention center, where the day's agenda included an ethics lecture:

Happy Thursday. Four council members, including Chairman Phil Mendelson, oppose emergency approval of a bill from the mayor to extend the private Lab School's lease beyond 2023 at a city-owned site in Ward 3. The debate has become charged…

Happy Wednesday. The DC Council’s budget office has published a new website, DCCouncilBudget.com, as lawmakers anticipate the mayor’s budget proposal next week.

Happy Tuesday. Council members voted this morning to close a meeting about Jack Evans from the public, reporters at the Wilson Building tweeted.

Good Monday morning. This week, there will be enough mayors, council members and other local officials in the District to fill a village.

TGIF and happy International Women’s Day. The DC Council has been served a federal subpoena, Tom Sherwood reports: “A federal subpoena has just been served on all DC council members demanding they preserve any and all records re CoMember…

Happy Thursday. Jack Evans says he will “allow the license for his corporation to expire — therefore, he’ll no longer have outside employment effective April 1, 2019,” jonetta rose barras writes in The DC Line.

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.