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"I don’t know the details of any scheduling."
—Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Sept. 3

Apparently the dispute between Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Cora Masters Barry's Recreation Wish List Committee over the operations of the Southeast and Tennis Learning Center has been settled.
The Fenty camp just put out this statement: "All parties involved are satisfied with today's settlement agreement, and look forward to working together to ensure that District [...]

This just in from Loose Lips correspondent Mike DeBonis: A D.C. Superior Court judge just moments ago granted a temporary restraining order stopping the eviction of Cora Masters Barry's Recreation Wish List Committee from its home at the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center. The order comes about a month after the administration of Mayor [...]

Today, At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson sent a letter to AG Peter Nickles urging him to reconsider evicting Cora Masters Barry's Recreation Wish List Committee from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center. So far Nickles has taken a hard line on evicting Barry's nonprofit which provides academic and athletic programs for area kids.
Mendelson writes:
"Contrary to your [...]

This week's Loose Lips column delves into the background behind Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's move to evict Cora Masters Barry and her Recreation Wish List Committee from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center—a beautiful eight-year old facility in Congress Heights.
Some questions remain unanswered: For one, why did this happen in the first place? When the [...]

WaPo has a nice little incremental story on the controversy surrounding the Recreation Wish List Committee's looming eviction from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center. Fenty and Co. appear confused about how to handle the Committee's Honcho Cora Masters Barry. D.C. Wire writes:
"'If Cora Barry gets her corporate papers together, then we will determine if [...]

Lost in the Stephen Strasburg hub-bub: Jeff Ruland is back in town.
The onetime Bruise Brother was named head coach of the University of the District of Columbia. Ruland gets the UDC job after getting canned as an assistant by new '76ers coach Eddie Jordan.
Ruland played the moody lug to Rick Mahorn's gregarious lug when the [...]

Sandra "SS" Seegars has organized a rally in support of Cora Masters Barry's Recreation Wish List Committee. As everyone knows, the city has moved to evict Barry from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center.
The rally is being held this Friday at 6 p.m. outside the center at 701 Mississippi Avenue SE.

The District's move to evict Cora Masters Barry's Recreation Wish List Committee from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center has certainly caused a late-summer dust-up among politicos. District officials have given Masters Barry 30 days to vacate the facility, citing that the committee's corporate charter had lapsed.
In Sunday's WaPo story, AG Peter Nickles stood firm [...]