AG Peter Nickles push to have the city's child welfare system removed from federal court oversight has hit a road block. In a very non-shocking report [PDF] released today, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) has found huge gaps in CFSA's foster-care system.
CSSP is the court-appointed monitor. Its reports are the fuel [...]
Sherri Sosslau is in the process of making 40 colorful yarn wigs for kids who are residents of the Hematology Department at Children's National Medical Center. She has 12 so far, and could use your help getting the rest done in time for the holidays.
Sherri is holding two "Hair Flair for Hope" wig-making sessions on [...]
More bad news from Metro. Another person has been struck by a train. According to WMATA:
"Metro officials are responding to a report of an individual who was struck by a Red Line train at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metrorail station at about 3:35 p.m. today (Nov. 30). The train was headed in the direction of Shady [...]
Beginning today, City Desk will provide regular updates on crimes throughout the District.
Car Trouble: Armed suspects carjacked a Range Rover around 14th and E Streets NE on Nov. 23. When the Rover stalled about a block away due to its security system, the alleged thieves jumped out of the dead vehicle—and immediately carjacked another. "About [...]
Last week, the District had 130 homicides for the year. That's way down from the 172 at the same time last year.
What's perhaps most impressive with this roughly 20 percent decline is that the drop is nearly citywide, according to the latest police stats. Murders are declining even in the most notorious neighborhoods.
Mahogany Jones, publicist for the infamous party crashing Tareq and Michaele Salahi, put out a statement this morning regarding her clients—specifically, regarding reports that they are demanding upward of $500,000 for media interviews.
The Salahis may or may not be guilty of crimes for choosing to crash a White House state dinner. But they are [...]
Vincent Schiraldi, the controversial head of the District's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, will head the New York City probation department. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Schiraldi's appointment at a city hall press conference this morning.
The move brings to an end Schiraldi's long and contentious tenure here in the District. An outspoken advocate of [...]
Thanksgiving, a time for food, football, family...and begging Dan Snyder to do the right thing.
The Los Angeles Times on Friday ran an editorial stating something obvious to everybody outside the Beltway: The name "Redskins" is a local and national embarrassment.
From the editorial, titled "The 'Redskins' Should Go":
Rush Limbaugh, who on his radio show has referred [...]
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Morning all. A bit of free advice from LL to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty: When you're under heavy criticism for your dictatorial methods, it's probably not such a good [...]
It was at the very end of an A1 story in the Washington Post. It would have been just another quote, another sound bite that wouldn't have made a difference. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, after all, tosses out throwaway quotes all the damn time. You know how that goes: We're just trying to do our [...]
All the stories devoted to the White House security breach refer to the distaff half of the gate crashing duo as "Michaele Salahi."
That's a cool name, one fit for a socialite and state dinner diner.
But in Docket #GT08011085-00 from the Fauquier County courts, a routine traffic case from 2007, the same lady was just plain [...]
Are you hazy on the events of Sept. 27, 2002 when D.C. police arrested 400 people in Pershing Park? Do you want to read about what it was like to be hogtied for hours?
Are you unsure what exactly a running resume is? Would you like to know just how the District lost or destroyed crucial [...]
