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Good Wednesday morning. WaPo previews a planned announcement from Muriel Bowser and U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu today, reporting that “scores of D.C. defendants will be prosecuted for federal gun crimes rather than face local charges in the…

Happy Tuesday. Council members in a tight vote agreed to let the CFO negotiate a sole-source contract for online sports betting.

Happy Monday. Opposition to the mayor moving $21M in funds for Ward 7's Fort Dupont Ice Arena escalated to include Ted Leonsis over the weekend. Muriel Bowser wants to move the money this year to fix HVAC systems for schools. (She defended…

TGIF and happy February. This week has shown a Muriel Bowser who is relishing the political power of a second term. She typically avoided large confrontations in her first four years — with a few exceptions, like the construction of family…

Happy Thursday. The first of three planned hearings on the confirmation of schools chancellor nominee Lewis Ferebee took place last night.

Happy Wednesday. Muriel Bowser said yesterday the District would double down on its public health and policing strategies to stem a tide of killings this year.

Good Tuesday morning. Muriel Bowser will offer her administration’s “plan to reduce violent crime in the District” this morning at a mayor-council breakfast. The mayor will also give an update on the partial federal shutdown’s impact on…

Happy Monday. Two important meetings are happening today at the Wilson Building. One is a hearing on sports betting on mobile apps, and another is a hearing on the District’s inefficient response to the opioid epidemic.

TGIF! Despite welcome news on a seeming end to the partial government shutdown, it's unclear how that affects the dire economic impact suffered by DC over the past month, as outlined this morning at a DC Council working group meeting.

Good Thursday morning. Many contractors registered as local companies in Ward 7 or 8 are not actually headquartered there, City Paper found, raising yet more questions about the District’s Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) program.

Good Wednesday morning. If the partial shutdown lasts two months into Feb. 15, DC is expected to lose $85 million in revenue, according to a new analysis from the chief financial officer released last night. Say the government doesn’t…

Happy Tuesday. Clear your next five minutes and read this from Tom Sherwood: Out of prison since 2017 for accepting bribes from FBI agents posing as a contractor, Michael A. Brown is eyeing a challenge to David Grosso in 2020.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In these times, The Guardian newspaper has something called a wealth correspondent, and it has dug up a scoop about our very own Dan Synder.

TGIF! Muriel Bowser announced today she will allow a campaign finance bill to become law without her signature, after activists worried in recent days whether she would veto the bill. “I don’t think the council landed in the right place” on…

Good Thursday morning. Muriel Bowser sent the decriminalization of fare evasion in Metro back to the DC Council, exercising her second veto ever. The bill had passed 10-2, but defections are possible …

Good Wednesday morning. Trust me — that was essentially Muriel Bowser's message this morning on Fox 5. Sitting next to her chief of police, the mayor vowed the recent homicide spike will go down, as the number of killings so far has…

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…