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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. Brown (I-At Large)....
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Photo by afagen We reported yesterday on rumors that the Giro d'Italia, one of professional cycling's biggest events, may come to the District for an opening stage in 2011. Today we've finally received confirmation that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, himself an avid cyclist, has indeed been involved in courting the Giro to come to D.C. "It's my understanding that there have been talks, but nothing...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Then President-elect Barack Obama eats with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty at Ben's Chili Bowl on Jan. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) It was a year ago today that District residents awoke -- likely groggy from the celebrations the night before -- to a new president-elect. Barack Obama not only became the nation's first African-American president, he also offered residents of the District of Columbia...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo by {ryan} As a competitive cyclist who mourned the postponement of this year's only professional race in the District, I was ecstatic, though slightly skeptical, to stumble acros the news this morning that organizers of the Giro d'Italia, one of the three grand tours of international cycling, were thinking of bringing the opening stages of the race to D.C. . According to quotes allegedly made...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Photo by Fade 2 Black & Back Good morning, Washington. Yesterday, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray held his usual press conference to preview the next day's legislative session, and it was predictably a doozy. For one, Gray called for DCPS CFO Noah Wepman to be fired . If you watched any of last week's Council hearing on the recent DCPS layoffs, you may have caught the boyish Wepman squirming...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Photo by nevermindtheend There was an actual fist fight in the Washington Post newsroom on Friday, between Style editor Henry Allen and feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia, and everyone was racing to get the story today. Washingtonian , City Desk and Fishbowl DC all provide blow-by-blow coverage. "D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his economic development team must provide real estate documents to Deborah...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Photo courtesy Phil Mendelson As the 2010 election season gets underway, DCist will endeavor to interview as many of the candidates for city office as we can. This week, we speak with At-large D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson (D), who is currently running for re-election. For being mild-mannered and bookish, D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) really seems to attract a lot of attention....
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Adrian Fenty announced Wednesday that they have doubled the reward money, to $50,000, for anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the two gunmen who shot and killed 17-year-old Kenyetta Nicholson-Stanley on Oct. 8. Nicholson-Stanley was shot while standing in a playground in the 500 block of Edgewood Street NE, and was merely a bystander....
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Photo by M.V. Jantzen Let's just say that the Fenty administration and the D.C. Council aren't planning any friendly get togethers any time soon. Tensions between the two city government branches had already intensified after news broke late last week that millions of dollars of recreation contracts have been funneled improperly through the semi-autonomous D.C. Housing Authority, allowing bids to...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Photo by jagosaurus Good morning, Washington. Hope you all had relaxing weekends, despite the late night Howard Homecoming revelers on every corner, the global climate protesters , the early rising Marine Corps Marathoners, and the shooters firing their guns all over Petworth, Columbia Heights, and LeDroit Park. Now that we think about it, it's a wonder any of us got any sleep at all. Gay Marriage...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Photo by andertho You can almost hear it, can't you? Mayor Adrian Fenty, doing his best impression of Superintendent Chalmers from The Simpsons , yelling from his office, "Skinner!" Once again there's news -- and it's not good news -- involving Fenty's fraternity brother and longtime political associate Sinclair Skinner. The Examiner is reporting that four members of the D.C. Council, potentially...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Don Peebles Real estate mogul (and D.C. native) Don Peebles is thinking about giving Mayor Adrian Fenty a run for his money, according to a report this morning in the Washington Business Journal . Peebles told reporter Jonathan O'Connell that he will 'either run himself or support another candidate because of what he called "a continued pattern of a lack of oversight and accountabilty" under...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Photo by M.V. Jantzen Good morning, Washington. If you haven't been following the Washington Post's investigative series into the squandering of millions of dollars worth of HIV/AIDS funding inside the District, take some time to do so today. The stories forced Mayor Adrian Fenty and Attorney General Peter Nickles to call a press conference on Monday and announce an investigation into whether nonprofit...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Photo by Aziz Y. For your RSS updating pleasure: Why.i.hate.dc's Dave Stroup has launched a new local "news and media analysis" web site, District Daily . Lookin' sharp, Dave! Pretty incredible story from the GW Hatchet about a 28-year-old freshman at the university who spent the last 10 years in prison, thanks to a murder conviction that was later overturned. Fishbowl DC foments some smack...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has named Bryan Sivak, a founder of the Silicon Valley company InQuira, as his new chief technology officer, both D.C. Wire and City Desk are reporting. Sivak, 34, was introduced for the first time by the mayor at a press conference at city hall this morning. The nominee takes over for interim chief Chris Willey, who had been tasked with minding the OCTO ship since the departure...
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