First Vincent Gray went after Victor Reinoso. Now Mary Cheh's going after his boss.
The Ward 3 councilmember, as chair of the council's government operations committee, is proposing to reduce the budget of the Executive Office of the Mayor by $287,000 and three employees.
All of that comes from the Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs, [...]

As noted earlier this afternoon by Nikita Stewart at D.C. Wire, the D.C. Council's economic development committee spent their afternoon carving up a pool of money known as the Neighborhood Investment Fund into little pieces to disburse to various favored groups.
To be fair, councilmember did not start the trend. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget proposal, [...]

This morning, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray convened a press conference with 11 of his colleagues to go over their proposed markup changes to the FY2010 District budget. It was a standing-room-only affair, at least in the beginning, but as councilmember after councilmember rose to detail his or her recommendations, it got real tedious [...]

A slightly less groggy LL is taking yet another look at the FY2010 budget proposed by the D.C. Council. Another sizable new item he initially missed: Looks like Emancipation Day is back in full.
Originally proposed under Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget plan to move from a full public holiday to an optional "private" holiday, the [...]

Looks like Vince-'n'-Victor show has turned into a bit more than a show. More than that, it looks like the baseball ticket feud between the council and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has given way to conflict much more substantive.
According to a budget report released tonight, Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is proposing to cut the [...]

Note to potential D.C. Council witnesses: Best not to diss councilmembers ahead of your testimony. Especially in writing.
Just ask Robert Cane.
Yesterday, the executive director of Friends of Choice in Public Education was among dozens of charter school advocates who showed up at a council budget hearing to plead for a restoration of facilities funding for [...]

For the past two years, the District of Columbia has budgeted millions of dollars to help the poor hire lawyers to do civil legal work. This year, for instance, $3.6 million has been handed to the D.C. Bar Foundation to be in turn disbursed to various groups that do legal work for the indigent. This [...]

Last spring, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and the D.C. Council took heat from LL and others for their earmarks in the yearly budget. In his initial FY09 budget proposal, Fenty included $27 million in noncompetitive grants, which the council later upped to $70 million. Things got to the point that Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray [...]

Buried in budget legislation [PDF, p.121] submitted today to the D.C. Council are a number of changes to the District's property-tax appeals process.
The Board of Real Property Assessment Appeals (BRPAA—pronounced "BURP-uh") has had its share of trouble over the years. The board came in for a harsh review last fall from D.C. Auditor Deborah K. [...]

The FY2010 budget proposal submitted by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on Friday contained a number of fee hikes. Many of those are intended to fall on businesses, but there was one that will fall broadly on District residents: A "Street Light User Fee," intended to "cover the costs associated with the operation and maintenance of [...]