Staff at the city detoxification clinic, on the former D.C. General Hospital campus, are used to dealing with some pretty suspect characters, so it was little surprise that police would show up there to make an arrest. What was a surprise is who they arrested on July 9: the clinic's manager, Larry W. Ricks.
Witnesses report [...]

So says Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham in a press release this morning.
In an oversight hearing last month, Department of Motor Vehicles Director Lucinda Babers revealed that its been a longstanding policy (15 years!) to reduce by half tickets accrued by big fleet operators in the city—folks like FedEx and UPS who regularly foul up [...]

The world-record holder for most consecutive kisses in a minute is no longer employed by the District of Columbia.
WaPo's Bill Turque is reporting that State Superintendent of Education Deborah Gist has resigned to take a similar top job with an actual state—Rhode Island, to be precise.
Turque includes some fun stuff about tensions over Gist's role [...]

Then you might consider applying to serve as executive director of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.
The agency has been in the news in a bad way in recent months, for botching vote counts on the night of the District primary in September, then by taking forever to get any results out after the [...]

They call it "burrowing in"—when government employees in politically appointed posts move into civil-service jobs as political fortunes shift.
That's what a lot folks working for Republicans are doing right now in the federal government. And, at the District level, there's some burrowing, too.
Nyasha Smith, who clerked the workforce development and government operations committee for outgoing [...]