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Colbert King: D.C. may be headed for another financial crisis. Is the council listening?

Editor Mar 29, 2019

Anyone who lived through the District’s financial crisis in the 1990s knows it was the kind of calamity this city must avoid repeating. I watched the event unfold from my perch on The Post’s editorial board, where we opined nonstop about…

Chioma Oruh and LaJoy Johnson-Law in The Post: Parents must know how D.C.’s charter schools spend…

Editor Mar 29, 2019

Charter schools educate nearly half of Washington’s public school students and receive a total of nearly $900 million in public funding each year. So why are parents, teachers, journalists and the public kept in the dark about how they…

Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: D.C. auditor sends warning about Bowser’s budget

Editor Mar 29, 2019

D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson delivered a critically important message to the public the other day.

City Paper: A Brief Interview with Anita Bonds

Editor Mar 28, 2019

Before now, the D.C. Council housing committee chair had never agreed to a sit-down interview with Housing Complex.

City Paper: Why Did Councilmember Anita Bonds Block a Fox5 Reporter on Twitter?

Editor Mar 28, 2019

Apparently it was all a big misunderstanding.

Washington Post: Facing recall, D.C. lawmaker Jack Evans says he has ‘fiercely advocated’ for…

Editor Mar 28, 2019

D.C. Council member Jack Evans, who is the target of a federal investigation into whether he used his public position for private gain, issued his first response Wednesday to an attempt by some voters to recall him from the office he’s…

WTOP: Watchdog office: DC police’s use of force is on the rise

Editor Mar 27, 2019

Reports of police using force in the nation’s capital are on the upswing.

Washington Business Journal: Vincent Gray pushes for new D.C. hospital to open sooner as UMC ‘is…

Editor Mar 27, 2019

A new D.C. hospital scheduled to deliver on the city’s east end in 2023 needs to open earlier, according to Councilman Vincent Gray, D-Ward 7, following the release of the Bowser administration’s 2020 budget proposal.

Washington Post: Mayor’s budget proposes slight increase for D.C. police, more money for programs…

Editor Mar 26, 2019

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is proposing a small increase in the police department’s half-billion-dollar budget for the coming fiscal year, which includes money to hire additional officers to help confront the rising number of homicides.

Washington Post: Constituent services funds are supposed to help D.C. residents in need. Do they?

Editor Mar 26, 2019

The “vast majority” of dollars raised through private donations by D.C. elected officials to help District residents are not spent as intended, according to a new report by Public Citizen, a government watchdog organization.

Washington Post: D.C. auditor says mayor’s budget is ‘not fiscally responsible’

Editor Mar 25, 2019

The D.C. official in charge of auditing government programs launched an unusual attack on the mayor’s proposed budget Monday, saying it is “not fiscally responsible” and could lead to the kind of spending that prompted a federal takeover…

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Mikey Weidman: Requiring more transparency at charter schools will help parents make informed…

Commentary Mar 25, 2019

In an effort to bring greater transparency to DC’s public charter schools, Ward 6 DC Council member Charles Allen and four of his colleagues last week introduced the Public School Transparency Amendment Act of 2019. The legislation would…

Washington Post: As D.C. leaders tout reforms, latest ethics scandal evokes city’s history of…

Editor Mar 23, 2019

As the D.C. Council enacted reforms to reduce public corruption, federal prosecutors were probing whether its longest-serving member used his office for private gain.

Theresa Vargas in The Washington Post: Washington natives are about to get a day that honors them.…

Editor Mar 23, 2019

If you have ever read a government resolution, you know they are written in a way no one speaks.

Washington Post: Are boom days over for the D.C. budget?

Editor Mar 22, 2019

Unemployment is low, property values are high and downtown restaurants cater to a lunchtime crowd interested in $28 hamburgers. The local economy in the nation’s capital shows few outward signs of stress.

WTOP: More DC brewpubs, tasting rooms to open under proposed bill

Editor Mar 22, 2019

There’s new legislation going through city hall that would allow small businesses that make wine, beer or spirits in D.C. to open locations outside of where they make their product.

Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. needs a strong ethics board again

Editor Mar 21, 2019

WHEN SHE was on the D.C. Council, a notable accomplishment of Muriel E. Bowser (D) was pushing through legislation that established an independent board to investigate and enforce government ethics rules. Members of the new board were…

Washington Post: Del. Norton floats a new way for District to control RFK Stadium site

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s nonvoting member of Congress, is filing legislation that asks Congress to sell to the city one of the largest tracts of vacant land in the District: the 190-acre RFK Stadium site.

AG Racine Introduces Legislation to Protect District Residents’ Personal Data

Press Release Mar 21, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications AG RACINE INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO PROTECT DISTRICT RESIDENTS’ PERSONAL DATA Proposal Creates Stricter Safeguards Against Data Breaches, Protects…

District Dig: Hollow Promise — D.C.’s management of sexual harassment complaints is full of holes

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Moved by the #MeToo wave that swept America and sexual assault allegations that rocked the Supreme Court confirmation process, the D.C. Council stood in solidarity last fall against sexual abuse in all of its ugly forms.

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District Links: Council begins hashing out budget priorities; faulty alert system meant $1M spent on manual fire watch…

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Midway through the DC Council's budget work session, legislators are making clear some of their shared priorities on where to direct any available funding to avoid — or at least trim — cuts proposed…

District Links: WaPo looks to sublease about half of its Franklin Square office space; National Mall to host FIFA World…

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A new report on economic and revenue trends in DC notes that the number of unemployment insurance claimants dropped by 37.7% in April 2026 compared to the same period a year earlier.

District Links: Mayor reinstates extended youth curfew for 15 days; candidates draw attention as June 16 election draws…

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Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend and in the wake of a high-profile brawl among teenagers inside a Navy Yard restaurant last week, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced today that she is invoking emergency…

jonetta rose barras: Everyone can vote in the special election on June 16, regardless of party or nonparty

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“It’s nice to see everyone so willing to work together,” journalist Michael Brice-Saddler quipped while moderating the recent debate sponsored by the DC Office of Campaign Finance principally for…

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