The Union Kitchen spread is chocolaty and delicious and the Porkslap free-flowing, but there's a growing sense of unease at Elissa Silverman's election-night party as the at-large D.C. Council returns trickle in. Silverman's currently in a solid second place, but 10 percentage points behind incumbent Anita Bonds with more than half of precincts reporting.
So how [...]
Mayor Vince Gray has not been shy about firing high-ranking officials when they become inconvenient. The mayor’s former chief of staff, Gerri Mason Hall, was gone after only three months, forced to take the fall for hiring little-supported-mayoral-candidate-turned-FBI-witness Sulaimon Brown. Former Department of Employment Services Director Rochelle Webb was shown the door a few months [...]
A newly public report by the Office of the Inspector General shows that Fire Department Chief Ken Ellerbe was potentially alerted to the fact that his department had faulty information about the department's reserve fleet a day before Ellerbe and his deputies presented that faulty reserve fleet information to a D.C. Council committee.
On Feb. 19, [...]
Last July, U.S. Attorney Ron Machen held a news conference to describe an “expansive,” “sophisticated,” and “well-financed conspiracy” to put Mayor Vince Gray into office.
The remarks came just hours after Jeanne Clarke Harris, a septuagenarian public relations professional, had pleaded guilty for her supporting role in financing what Machen called an illegal “shadow campaign.” [...]
District officials are currently investigating why no D.C. ambulances were available to transport a seriously injured police officer near the intersection of Benning Road SE and East Capitol Street to the hospital last Tuesday. One possible reason: the city's fire department has a lot of broken ambulances.
The city is supposed to have 39 ambulances available [...]
During his first oversight hearing of the Metropolitan Police Department Wednesday as head of the D.C. Council public safety committee, Ward 6 Councilmartyr Saint Tommy Wells briefly questioned Police Chief Cathy Lanier on the city's failed attempts to fire several officers it had previously fired and then reinstated.
"It just sounds like a debacle," said Wells [...]
Just by looking at him, you would have been hard-pressed to tell in the last week that Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham was going through one of the lowest points of his political career.
After a D.C. Superior Court judge tossed out Graham’s Hail Mary attempt on Friday to dismiss a finding by the Board of [...]
Ward 6 Councilmartyr Saint Tommy Wells has formed a mayoral exploratory committee and says it's "likely" he'll run, he's not yet said it's a sure thing. But here's a sign he's almost definitely running: he's looking to hire a campaign manager.
From the email list jobs that are left comes this ad, which notes that "some [...]
Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham does not think highly of his colleague Ward 6 Councilmartyr Saint Tommy Wells' proposal to form an ad hoc committee to consider whether Graham ought to be punished by his colleagues. Late Friday, Wells called on D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson to form such a committee, after the Board of Ethics [...]
Ward 6 Councilmartyr Saint Tommy Wells says he'll be launching an exploratory committee for mayor on Monday, as well as kicking off a more official "listening tour" that night at the Big Chair Coffee & Grill in Anacostia.
It's no secret that Wells has been exploring a run for mayor for quite some time. Launching an [...]
