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Happy Wednesday. Go-go will be heard throughout the Wilson Building tonight — after a hearing to make it the official music genre of the District.

Happy Monday. The project to bring a new hospital east of the Anacostia River is in rough shape, exacerbating tensions over the state of the area's existing DC-owned medical center.

TGIF! Two members of the 2005 inaugural Nationals team will be on hand to complete the ceremonial first pitch at the first major league baseball World Series game in Washington since 1933.

Happy Thursday. Banning all right-on-red turns, lowering speed limits, establishing a “citizen cop” force, fining contractors for shoddy work — these ideas are all under consideration at the DC Council today as part of legislation to…

Happy Wednesday. Enrollment in DC Public Schools increased 4% this year, while the charter sector for the first time saw a drop in numbers.

Good Tuesday morning. The St. Elizabeths public psychiatric hospital has been without clean running water for nearly a month now …

Happy Monday. The DC Council is getting reviews about the city's police body camera program today five years after its implementation.

TGIF! An explosive and graphic story from City Paper, posted while the first DC Council hearing on sex work decriminalization stretched into the night …

Happy Thursday. Newly unsealed court documents show how in 2016 digital sign company Digi Outdoor Media, whose CEO cut checks to DC Council member Jack Evans, rushed to put up its large signs overnight — in the face of stop-work warnings…

Happy Wednesday. A major question looms over the mayor's affordable housing pronouncements: How will the city pay for 12,000 new subsidized units across the District by 2025?

Happy Monday. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson says that tomorrow he'll announce the ad hoc committee to review the law firm’s investigation into Council member Jack Evans …

TGIF! Climate activists have a new “No Pepco Pledge” for candidates running in next year’s elections.

Happy Thursday. Columnist jonetta rose barras goes long on the battle over control of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, trying to decipher why the mayor’s office is bent on acquiring more power over how the commission operates.…

Happy Wednesday. Join DL as we play a bit of ‘Where are they now?’ involving Jack Evans’ committee staff.

Happy Tuesday and new fiscal year. Council member Jack Evans has a legal defense fund, and the law regulating how its funds can be spent was just recently amended.

Happy Monday. Students who are at-risk for academic failure would benefit from attending the top public schools of the city, says a new report — if only those schools weren’t so far from many of those children.

TGIF! Six candidates running to be the next Ward 2 council member debated last night, nailing incumbent Jack Evans, who did not attend and has not announced plans for re-election.

Happy Thursday. Did the city violate the Home Rule Act in its push to legalize sports gambling as soon as possible by authorizing a no-bid contract to manage the program?

Happy Wednesday. The FBI showed up yesterday at the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the large agency in charge of permitting and licensing, to execute a search warrant on one individual.

Good Tuesday morning. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been talking about adding more housing in Upper Northwest, where many residents in low-rise and single-family-home neighborhoods resist tall buildings.