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Fixing Fenty’s jobs program racks up overtime for team
- The chaos surrounding Mayor Adrian Fenty’s summer jobs program has cost the city finance office thousands of dollars of overtime as D.C. bureaucrats scramble to find ways to pay the youths.
Duo’s letter cites ‘major concerns’ on Nebraska Avenue project
- Neighbors in the chic Chevy Chase-D.C. neighborhood are being spurred to action by a massive road project that they say threatens the local environment.
Girl, 6, dead in apparent overdose of father’s antidepressants
- An apparent overdose of prescription antidepressants has taken the life of a little girl, and D.C.’s teetering child welfare agency is once again trying to explain how it missed warning signs she was in danger.
Fenty seeks funds as program to employ teens busts budget
- Mayor Adrian Fenty’s ambitious summer jobs initiative for city teens has burst through its budget three weeks into the program and the mayor is raiding D.C.’s rainy day fund to dig his way out of the crisis, The Examiner has learned.
- Mayor Adrian Fenty’s ambitious summer jobs initiative for city teens has burst through its budget three weeks into the program and the mayor is raiding D.C.’s rainy day fund to dig his way out of the crisis, The Examiner has learned.
Closed UDC pool fuels concerns about school
- The pool at D.C.’s only public university has been shuttered for most of the summer, and neighbors are worried the troubled campus is falling apart.
Fenty aide resigns after accusations of lying under oath
- A loyal aide to Mayor Adrian Fenty has left the administration after being accused by local bar authorities of lying under oath in a multi million-dollar divorce case and being stripped of his law license.
Tommy Boggs: All in the Family
- Tommy Boggs is one of the most powerful members of his family, but is by no means the most famous.
The King of K St.: Tommy Boggs faces a new challenge
- Five decades ago, Tommy Boggs invented the role of super-lobbyist.
Many cops on brutality watch list work in most violent D.C. districts
- Dozens of police officers in D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods are getting red flags on their files and being referred to a special department program that aims to prevent brutality before it happens, internal police documents show.
The 3-minute interview: Bob Beaulieu
- For 32 years, owner Bob Beaulieu has presided over the dark wood, dim light, heavy drinks and purple haze at the Post Pub in downtown D.C., one of the last respectable newsies’ joints on the Eastern Seaboard.
District mulls stop to detaining youth offenders alongside adults
- The District of Columbia is considering a bill that would keep youthful suspects out of grown-up jails while they await trial.
- The District of Columbia is considering a bill that would keep youthful suspects out of grown-up jails while they await trial.
Violence continues to plague D.C. schools, monitor reports
- Violence against city schoolchildren continues to bedevil D.C. parents, a top school monitor has reported.
Councilman urges gun law passage
- D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson is brushing aside warnings from Adrian Fenty’s administration to back away from gun-control legislation, and is urging his colleagues to adopt emergency laws next week.
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