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Colbert King in The Post: D.C. politics is a tangled web of money and power. Enough is enough.

Editor Nov 16, 2018

The D.C. Council has the chance to end dalliances with corruption — and restore confidence in the city’s political process — by adopting the omnibus campaign-finance-reform bill unanimously passed last month by the council’s Judiciary and…

jonetta rose barras: Ending campaign finance censorship

jonetta rose barras Nov 13, 2018

Opposition appears to be building on the DC Council to the omnibus campaign finance reform legislation approved recently by the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, chaired by Ward 6’s Charles Allen. The pushback has been presented…

City Paper: Campaign Finance Office Looking Into $62,350 Disbursement From Bowser Campaign

Editor Nov 12, 2018

The payments from Mayor Muriel Bowser's campaign to Kimberly Lockett started just before the primary election.

WAMU: Bowser Violated Campaign Finance Laws By Holding Rally For Council Candidates, Group Says

Editor Oct 25, 2018

Government watchdog organization Public Citizen says D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser potentially violated campaign finance laws when she hosted a get-out-the-vote rally earlier this month where two candidates for the D.C. Council were fêted as…

jonetta rose barras: Undemocratic campaign reform in DC

jonetta rose barras Oct 23, 2018

When Ward 6 DC Council member Charles Allen took over as chair of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety nearly two years ago, he pledged to push through campaign finance reform, consolidating and advancing a host of legislative…

Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety approves campaign finance reform package that restricts…

Press Release Oct 18, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 18, 2018 Contact: Laura Marks Councilmember Charles Allen’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety approves campaign finance reform package that restrict pay-to-play contracting, limits money in…

Washington Post: Why is so much money flowing into D.C.’s school board races?

Editor Oct 6, 2018

The checks are flowing in from across the country: $200 from a charter school principal in New York, $100 from a Silicon Valley employee, another $100 from a school leadership consultant in North Carolina. The money, more than $150,000 and…

District Dig: Why did Karl Racine let lobbyists for Digi Media hold a fundraiser for him?

Editor Jun 19, 2018

Election season can bring out a candidate’s true colors. Especially when the color is green. Yet it was somehow surprising to learn that Karl Racine, who is running unopposed for a second term as D.C.’s first elected Attorney General, was…

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District Links: Bowser hails senior units built as Ward 3’s first Housing Production Trust Fund project; streetcar…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 3 Councilmember Matt Frumin today celebrated the opening of an affordable housing building for seniors that marks the first Housing Production Trust Fund project west of…

District Links: AG Schwalb joins lawsuit to block suspension of SNAP benefits; report hails academic growth at 16…

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Barnard, Friendship Chamberlain and Whittier elementary schools are among 16 schools newly recognized for achieving strong academic growth among students from historically underserved backgrounds.

District Links: Norton scammed at home out of thousands of dollars in HVAC cleaning scheme; Bowser names new community…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser joined business leaders on Monday morning for a preview event to highlight expansion plans for the DowntownDC Holiday Market in its 21st season.

District Links: Court hears arguments today in DC challenge over National Guard; McDuffie reportedly telling insiders…

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A federal judge is slated to hear arguments this afternoon on DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb's request for a court order to remove National Guard troops.

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