Nominations

The D.C. Council approved a new chair for the commission and a former Bowser administration director as a new member.

Mayoral appointments are not generally the subject of a major kerfuffle at the D.C. Council. The mayor picks someone to do a job and, most of the time, her nominee sails through to a final vote and approval.

Rewriting the law to end the independence of the D.C. Office of Open Government this summer, the D.C. Council at least mandated that the new overseers, the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA), include one member equipped…