A pugnacious Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry just wrapped up an  entertaining spot on The Kojo Nnamdi show. We learned:
1) Barry is not actually writing the tweets you see on his pure gold Twitter account. Instead, he says he has a person he talks to who apparently transforms Barry's comments  into tweets.  "I never said [...]

Councilmember Phil Mendelson wants some truancy data! [Times]
Charter power for DCPS? [Post]
Sinclair Skinner on his Fenty cartoons: "I wanted it to speak in ways that didn’t require a Ph.D. in political theory." [The Root DC]
Would you wait more than 10 minutes for an H Street streetcar? [Post]
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is very pleased that Virginia [...]

A year and a day ago, Council Chairman Kwame "Fully Loaded" Brown bowed to a tidal wave of public pressure and returned the fully loaded, tax-payer funded, nearly $2,000-a-month  Lincoln Navigator he was driving.
At that time, Brown promised to reimburse the District for his "share of the use of the vehicle" after Attorney General Irv [...]

LL currently counts 16 candidates for the open Ward 5 seat. But at a debate scheduled for early next month will only feature five of those candidates, a deliberate omission that's causing a little heartburn.
The debate was organized by the Brookland Heartbeat, WTOP, and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, and [...]

Possible mayoral recall supporter Don Peebles does some polling, finds at-large Councilmember Vincent Orange has weak support. [DCist]
Charlie Sheen cop to sue [Examiner]
Youth training dollars squandered? [WAMU]
Deborah Simmons: Let's close all the schools. [Times]
Why didn't Council Chairman Kwame "Fully Loaded" Brown do anything when Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry cussed on the dais last year? [...]

Last week, LL reported that federal prosecutors had empaneled a grand jury to look into the finances of D.C. Council Chairman Kwame “Fully Loaded” Brown’s 2008 re-election campaign. Ever since accounting irregularities first surfaced in a July Board of Elections and Ethics report, Brown has denied any wrongdoing. He’s also not been charged with any [...]

To knock off an incumbent councilmember in this town, it helps to be hardworking, a little bit crazy, and to raise enough money to buy a gently-used Bentley.
Many challengers this election season have the first two qualities covered. The third part is proving tougher. None of the challengers for the six council seats up for [...]

Somewhere on a beach in the Caribbean right now, former Mayor Adrian Fenty is likely very embarrassed. At least he should be, since his longtime pal Sinclair Skinner has created this cheesy cartoon video about a young Fenty defending the District's image from rude upperclassmen while rushing the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Oberlin College.
Take [...]

Former Bloomingdale ANC commissioner John Salatti has decided to drop his bid to run for the Ward 5 seat, left open by the resignation of disgraced former Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.
Salatti says he had a strong shot at winning but decided to end his campaign after reevaluating the commitment necessary to be an [...]

D.C. Council codifies normal, adult behavior into law. Councilmember David Catania calls out colleagues for complaining about swearing while staying silent on Harry Thomas Jr.'s stealing. [Post]
Catania's bill aimed at preventing another South Capitol Street shooting passes committee. [Times]
Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser wants to punish deadbeat city contractors. [Examiner]
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor [...]