A word in the city's defense
The hard-working staff must be tense
Massages relax
Unless you pay tax
In which case they serve to incense
Massage ain't the only weird charge
And I'm no detective like Marge
But isn't the issue
(Beyond the deep tissue)
What's right when recession looms large?

This afternoon I called Mindy Good. She is the Child and Family Services Agency's press person. I had put in a request to interview the director of the troubled agency. When I hadn't heard back, I thought this merited a phone call to Good's cellphone.
I asked her about my request.
Good replied that all calls must [...]

A little more than a week ago, news broke that at least three percent of District residents have AIDS or HIV. This provoked Shannon L. Hader, director of the city's HIV/AIDS Administration to now-famously compare D.C. to West Africa. When pressed by Loose Lips at a press conference, Hader stated that our rates of infection were [...]