My story in this week's City Paper examines the claim by Office of Unified Communications director Janice Quintana that OUC dispatchers are 99.99 percent accurate. The story lists several instances of questionable dispatching by the OUC.
WUSA Channel 9's Dave Statter has more. Statter reports that he "has been waiting for OUC to answer a number [...]
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Late last month, a D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced Julio Umana to prison for armed sexual assault. Umana, a sandwich maker at the Union Station Au Bon Pain, used a knife in an attempt to coerce a 22-year-old male co-worker into an unspecified sex act. According to the prosecutors' report, several of the victim's other [...]
A tall, strong-looking middle-aged man in a blue Notre Dame jersey boarded the 90 bus towards Anacostia as it began its trek down Florida Avenue this morning. He began (loudly) relating to an acquaintance his history of injury: He'd been struck with an aluminum baseball bat at the base of his skull; he'd been stabbed; [...]
Time Dollar Youth Court reopened this Saturday after having run out of money and closing down on April 17. Surprised to learn that Mayor Adrian Fenty's fiscal 2008 budget left out funding for the program, administrators feared Time Dollar was done for good.
"We had been promised money by the Williams administration," said UDC law professor [...]
Today's Washington Post story on "the latest chapter in the troubled history of UDC" nailed the university for its past accreditation problems, its failure to modernize its campus, and its inability to raise funds. And this: "The school's main plaza floods every time it rains, with water seeping into the underground parking garage, where whole [...]
Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells says it looks as though Eastern Market's facade will remain salvageable.
"This really was built as the Rolls-Royce of construction at the time," he says. "There's no reason that we're going to lose this building."
ADDENDUM, 5:08 P.M.: Now the feds are getting in on the act. From a press release sent [...]
Twelve hours after a three-alarm fire destroyed its South Hall, the Eastern Market building is still smoldering. Firefighters spent the morning and afternoon poking holes in the roof and dousing embers from last night's blaze.
Scores of neighbors spent the day milling around across the street, grieving for the loss of a landmark. Elementary-school classes were [...]
Early this morning, a three-alarm fire gutted the South Hall of the Eastern Market building on Capitol Hill. The fire is believed to have started in a dumpster behind the building.
Capitol Hill resident Makan Delrahim was circling the block in search of a parking spot when on his second trip through the alley behind the [...]
In his March 23 "What They Didn't Tell You Today" blog entry on the National Rifle Association's Web site, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said:
Nobody cares about the opinions of Southeast Washington single mothers on defending their families against drug dealers and crack addicts. No, instead we're treated to elitist opinions from people who [...]
The District Department of Transportation's new multispace parking meters in Georgetown, Adams Morgan, and along K Street are a triumph of modern municipal innovation. They're solar-powered, they automatically notify DDOT when they need maintenance, and they free up lots of sidewalk space. DDOT spokesman Erik Linden says the agency has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from [...]
The alley running between Hall Place NW and Tunlaw Road NW in Glover Park is hardly an alley anymore. It's narrow and choked with weeds, and bamboo makes it impassable sans machete. Jersey barriers block one entrance, and a retaining wall holding up one side of the alley appears to be crumbling.
Hall Place resident Tim [...]
Dennis O'Connor, 2006 graduate of UDC's David A. Clarke School of Law, has just achieved his first legal victory: a claim against his alma mater in the District's Commission on Human Rights. A July 26 decision held that O'Connor, who uses a wheelchair, had been discriminated against by the university because there were stairs in [...]
It's that time of year for the University of District of Columbia law school—time to get sued by another just-graduated alum. During his studies at UDC's David A. Clarke School of Law, Dennis O'Connor—who uses a wheelchair—often complained to administrators about the school's accessibility issues. He pestered deans about keeping the wheelchair-friendly doors at the [...]
