Chris Matthews had knives out for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on his MSNBC show tonight, calling D.C. "a city that can't plow its streets."
"Why can't a government town do a government job?" he asked. "It looked like Siberia without the Siberian discipline. We had the weather of Buffalo with the snowplowing capability of Miami."

Washington City Paper embarked yesterday afternoon upon an SUV-assisted inspection of various notable persons' sidewalks. Did they comply with their civic duty to clear walkways for pedestrians within eight daylight hours after the snowfall ended?

Robert L. Allbritton
Position: chairman and CEO, Allbritton Communications Inc.
Address: 3124 Q St. NW (Georgetown)

Washington City Paper embarked yesterday afternoon upon an SUV-assisted inspection of various notable persons' sidewalks. Did they comply with their civic duty to clear walkways for pedestrians within eight daylight hours after the snowfall ended? Here's what we found.

Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee
Position: Party columnist and former executive editor of the Washington Post, respectively
Address: 3014 [...]

Lots of hand-wringing in recent days over the dip in support for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty among black Washingtonians. But remember that the grassroots disaffection hasn't trickled up yet to America's premier black periodical, Ebony magazine.
In its December 2009/January 2010 issue, Ebony selected Fenty as one of its "Power 150," putting him on the same [...]

Interesting WaPo correction:
A Jan. 2 Metro article on D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's priorities as she prepared for the fiscal 2011 budget said that she vowed to protect spending on teachers and classroom supplies while cutting $22 million. The article was based on a PowerPoint presentation and comments by Rhee and her aides [...]

Today, the Washington Post published a nice little good news story about how the District's population is starting rebound and is expected to pass 600,000 residents for the first time since 1991. Post reporters were able to beef up their story with interviews from Councilmembers Jack Evans, Jim Graham, and Kwame Brown, a demographer at [...]

"According to the Attorney General, I don’t need to tell you that."
—Mafara Hobson, mayoral spokesperson, March 26

The Washington Post editorial page is quite smitten with schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, that we know.
Turns out they like her ex-husband, too!
Kevin Huffman, an executive for Teach for America who split up with Rhee in 2007, has been named "America's Next Great Pundit" and will be handed valuable WaPo op-ed real estate for at least [...]

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray this afternoon described the motivation behind a pair of stories alleging improprieties on his part as being "clearly political."
The first, and more serious, story was penned by Jeffrey Anderson in this morning's Washington Times. It detailed various small jobs done on Gray's home by William C. Smith & Co., [...]

It's been a good week for WTOP reporter Mark Segraves. On Monday, he broke a story about Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's use of public resources to facilitate his bike training rides. Now, he tells LL, he's inked a deal to host his own TV show.
No name has yet been determined, but starting next month, Segraves [...]

Just got a Washington Post local text alert telling me that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is threatening to cut off funding to District HIV/AIDS programs.
Huh?
The local text alerts are used once or twice a day, mostly to get the word out about rush hour traffic backups, but also about major breaking [...]

In case you were doubting the tight relationship between the Washington Post editorial board and the upper echelons of the Fenty administration—particularly schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee—check this e-mail, sent on Oct. 5 from Rhee to embattled parks-and-rec director-designee Ximena Hartsock:
Spoke to Wapo ed board folks about you today. Told them you are the most qualified [...]

It's been a week now since Ted Loza, chief of staff to Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, was arrested on federal bribery charges.
LL and other news outlets have explored a lot of angles in the arrest's aftermath, but there's a media angle that's been neglected: Graham's press guy was just getting settled in.
"Thursday was my [...]

Check out NewsTalk With Bruce DePuyt at 4 p.m. on NewsChannel 8.
LL will be on, along with WTOP's Mark Segraves, to talk Ted Loza and Jim Graham, and also about Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's poll numbers.
Tune in!