DCist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) As the political fracas continues over the $82 million in parks and rec contracts that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty quietly funneled through the D.C. Housing Authority (much of it handed to contractors with cozy ties to the mayor), members of the D.C. Council are demanding accountability . None more so than Council member Michael A....
DCist (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... huh? The "black councilmen" Jackson cites are pretty easy to name -- Vince Gray, Kwame Brown (D-At Large), Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) and Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5). And then there's the black councilwoman who voted for the bill, Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4). But of all of these, who does Jackson think he can dethrone? Vince Gray and Kwame Brown are generally...
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... staffer Desi Deschaine ... D.C. families celebrate Adoption Day . This Day in DCist: Last year, Michael A. Brown was finally declared the winner in his quest for an At-large D.C. Council seat.
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here's an interesting bill currently before the D.C. Council, courtesy the Examiner's Michael Neibauer: Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5) and Michael A. Brown (I-At large) have introduced legislation that would establish 50-foot "safety zones" around any District of Columbia transit stop. The idea here is that any crime committed inside one of the "safety zones"...
who's your nanny? (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... temporary workers to knock on their doors and encourage them to be counted. D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown (I-At Large), who has been named council liaison for the census, blamed the District's low rate partly on "myths" about the consequences of being counted. "Some people think that if they do fill out the form, the government will come after them about parking tickets," Brown...
