You have questions about the $82 million dollars in parks-and-rec spending that Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is sending to the D.C. Housing Authority? LL has (some) answers!
What are these projects?
According to data furnished by the D.C. Council, they are 12 projects to renovate 12 parks or recreation facilities. One, to build a $1.3 million ballpark [...]

Attorney General Peter Nickles has determined that the D.C. Housing Authority must send its million-dollar-plus contracts to the D.C. Council for approval.
Such a determination comes less than 24 hours after news broke that the Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has sent a dozen parks-and-rec construction projects worth $81.6 million to DCHA in a manner that eluded [...]

Back in November, LL wrote about how Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry was expressing his disapproval of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty by filing things called "disapproval resolutions" on city contracts.
Those resolutions, which Barry's been filing regularly since the summer, have generally been little more than an annoyance. But late last month, one of the disapproval [...]