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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Is Fenty vs. Gray Like Clinton vs. Dole?'; 'Vincent Gray’s First 100 Days: To Be Determined'; 'Shelter Operator’s Problems Were No Secret To City Officials'; [...]
On WAMU-FM's Politics Hour this afternoon, LL asked D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray what would happen in the first 100 days of a Gray mayoralty. His response:
The battle royale that every D.C. political wag had been hoping for is on: Adrian M. Fenty vs. Vincent Gray. It's fairly obvious how challenger Gray is going to cast his candidacy: Youth vs. experience. Alienation vs. collaboration. Arrogance vs. avuncularity.
So how's this thing going to play out for Hizzoner? LL has been searching for [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Fenty Budget Cuts 385 Jobs, Increases Schools Funding'; 'Last-Minute Budget Change Costs Taxpayers 'Tens of Thousands''; 'Fenty Cut Line to Get on Plane, Says Eyewitness'; [...]
A last-minute change to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's fiscal 2011 budget proposal this morning will cost taxpayers "in the tens of thousands" of dollars to reprint budget documents, sources tell LL.
The change has to do with the Office of the Tenant Advocate, an office that "advocates for, educates, and provides outreach for" the city's renters. [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty rushed back from...well, somewhere, yesterday to hold a press conference more than 24 hours after four were killed in a drive-by shooting.
All Fenty would say about the trip last night was that "it was personal."
But in the age of social media, there are no secrets. LL was forwarded a Facebook post [...]
With details still scarce, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget proposal holds sacred education and public safety, while finding sundry service cuts and fee hikes to close an approximately $550 million budget gap.
The budget proposal eliminates 385 full-time equivalent positions; a Fenty official estimated than one-half of those positions are already empty, the other half will [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Four Shot Dead—Where’s Fenty?'; 'Police Wanted Drive-By Suspect Locked Up Last Week'; 'Gray on NewsTalk: ‘I Would Be a Very Different Kind of Leader’'; 'Families [...]
This afternoon, Vincent C. Gray gave his first extended interview as a mayoral candidate to NewsChannel 8's Bruce DePuyt.
"I would be a very different kind of leader," Gray said. "I'm an engaging person; I like to reach out to people." He later added: "People are saying, 'OK, I will acknowledge there have been certain things [...]
UPDATED 11:40 P.M.
In the days leading up to last night's horrendous drive-by shooting in Washington Highlands, police had sought an arrest warrant for one of the men thought to have carried out the crime.
Orlando Simms Carter, 26 20, now under arrest for the deadly drive-by, was suspected by police to have played a part in [...]
UPDATED 6:15 P.M.
Last night, the District experienced the deadliest act of neighborhood violence in at least 16 years. Thus far, there has been no word on a mayoral press conference.
That's out of character for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. For instance, when a shooting last fall killed two and wounded three in the Clay Terrace neighborhood [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Vincent Gray Files for Mayor Run, Says 'We Can Do Better''; 'With Gray Threatening, Athletes Stand Up for Fenty'; 'D.C. General Shelter: It's All About [...]
Vincent C. Gray kicked off his challenge to incumbent Mayor Adrian M. Fenty this afternoon, telling a crowd of more than 100 outside the Frank D. Reeves Center, "We can do better in the District of Columbia."
But that was about all that Gray said.
Aside from a nod to "connecting with every voter that we possibly [...]
When word leaked yesterday that D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray would be running for mayor, political junkies salivated, union officials cheered, and local athletes sure noticed, too.
You see, under Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, it's been a halcyon era for folks who, like Hizzoner, who push themselves to the limit in marathons, triathlons, and competitive [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Sources: Vincent Gray to Announce Mayoral Run Tomorrow'; 'Ahead of Campaign Announcement, Gray Disputes Fence Charges'; 'Who Will Run for D.C. Council Chairman?'; 'Inside D.C. [...]
