Fox 5 has a pretty good gig on Thursday mornings, when it gets to grill Mayor Adrian M. Fenty one on one. This morning's edition is fantastic and includes a little seg on Hizzoner's reaction to our Loose Lips story on the Department of Parks and Recreation employee who claims he was fired for [...]
First CFSA lost its spokesperson powers to the Mayor's Office. Now, it's the Fire Department's turn to refer all calls to Fenty spokesperson Mafara Hobson. At this point, I feel sorry for Hobson. Her job is busy enough with the on-going budget debates, the travel issues, etc. Now, she gets to field inquiries about the [...]
Today, Erika Peters and her young sons, Erik Harper and Dakota Peters, will be laid to rest. The wake and funeral services will be starting at 9:30 a.m. at Mount Calvary Holy Church at 610 Rhode Island Avenue NE. On March 21, they were stabbed to death in their apartment. Police have arrested Peters' [...]
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 [...]
Mafara Hobson, Mayor Adrian Fenty's spokesperson, confirms that the victims in yesterday's triple homicide in Northeast had contact with social services. A statement is being prepared which could take some more time. The victims–Erika Peters and two of her children–were stabbed and found by D.C. Police yesterday afternoon inside their Carver Terrace Apartments.
Last night, Joseph [...]
This afternoon, At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson sent out a press release urging for a voting rights bill that does not include that pesky gun amendment. Fenty said in a Post interview that we should bite the bullet on this one.
Mendelson ain't backing down from the NRA lobby. The chair of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees [...]
This morning, LL was all over Fenty's announced District gov job cuts. Our aggressive political scribe reported: "Of the remaining 776 employees the mayor is proposing to lay off, 250 are in DCPS—mostly teachers aides and support staff, Tangherlini says." This may not seem like scary news, but it is.
I know what your thinking: teachers [...]
Mayor Fenty talked to WTOP about the controversy over his recent trip to Dubai. I'm sure LL will have a smart take on this. I'm just semi-shocked that Fenty claims to have no regrets over that trek in which the United Arab Emirates government shelled out $25,000 to the mayor. And he attended that tennis [...]
The New Teacher On The Block was really pissed off that Fenty kept the schools open yesterday. Apparently, the mayor didn't factor in the slippery streets and that kids will use any excuse to play hooky (see the drop-out rate):
"I mean, I was slipping and sliding on 395 this morning, for goodness sakes. Once I [...]
The mayor rarely makes a huge mistake when he's here. Then the man takes a week-long vacation in Dubai and suddenly he's starting to sound a lot like some Jack Abramoff crony. As Fisher outlines in a detailed blog post, Fenty says he always wanted to go to Dubai. Then it's revealed that the United [...]
Yesterday, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced his nomination of Roque Gerald to become the permanent director of Child and Family Services at a press conference. Gerald had served as the agency's interim director since this past July. Fenty called his nomination a "shot in the arm" and touted Gerald as an old-hand within the troubled agency [...]
WTOP reports that Mika Brzezinski, the coolest thing about MSNBC's "Morning Joe," was mugged this morning outside a D.C. hotel. She was heading to interview Mayor Fenty about the inauguration:
"Without naming the hotel, her co-host Joe Scarborough blasted D.C. on the show the two co-host, 'Morning Joe.'
The mugging, Brzezinski says, happened as she waited for [...]
