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 D.C. police set up checkpoints in Trinidad, despite lawsuitAfter a string of shootings over the weekend, the D.C. Police department has reinstituted checkpoints around the violence-plagued Trinidad neighborhood despite being embroiled in a legal battle over the constitutionality of such Neighborhood Safety Zones.  Council considers raising taxes on Nationals ticketsThe D.C. Council will consider tacking on another 5 percent sales tax to tickets and most items purchased at Nationals Park in an effort to close a potential shortfall in revenue needed to pay off the stadium debt.
DC Council approves bill to improve animal welfare
The D.C. Council has approved legislation that expands animal welfare protections.
District officials dispute Pepco’s claim ‘Mother Nature’ causes some outages
Pepco wants to blame odd coincidence, falling trees and running squirrels for the 152 electricity outages in D.C. since January, but residents and local officials aren’t sure they believe what they’re hearing.
Fenty aides bypass hearing on schools, vexing D.C. Council
The D.C. Council, a week away from its summer recess, is still lacking critical information about expensive school modernization plans, infuriating members who assert the Fenty administration is fixing education facilities slapdash.
Students complain about marginalization to D.C. Council
D.C. youth sounded off about what they assert is a lack of communication between students, teachers and administrators at a public oversight hearing held by D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray Saturday morning.
Developer chosen for Tenleytown library site
The District of Columbia has chosen a developer to build a new Tenleytown library beneath a planned 130-unit apartment building.
Protesters confront Fenty over plans to redevelop Tenleytown library in new apartment building
The District has chosen a developer to rebuild the Tenleytown library beneath a towering 130-unit apartment building, sparking a backlash from neighbors who dread increases in traffic, loss of green space and delays in library construction.
D.C. police chief reshuffling brass, replacing two high-level officers
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is shaking up her command staff again, dropping her top anti-terrorism officer and replacing a commander whom she elevated barely three months ago, The Examiner has learned.
African Americans in D.C. bear burden of subprime mortgage crisis, report finds
African-Americans in Washington are living on the knife’s edge of the subprime mortgage crisis, a city government study has found. |
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