Suzanne Peck, the city's chief technology officer, has become a darling of the nation's technomedia. Public CIO magazine, Federal Computer Week, and Government Technology are among the pubs that have rightly hailed her success in turning a municipal technological backwater into a model for other cities. Washington Examiner columnist Jonetta Rose Barras, however, took a [...]

In today's Examiner, Harry Jaffe expended a good chunk of his column rehashing Mayor Anthony A. Williams’ use of “goddamn it” to fend off political gadfly Mark Plotkin’s usual statehood hectoring this past Wednesday.
Jaffe, also a Washingtonian national editor, went three for four on the W's: He got the who, the what, and the when [...]