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Harry Jaffe
What kind of green is the D.C. Council?
- How green is thy council? Green-apple green, if the votes on Klingle Road are any indication. Acid green on occasion, considering how one council member got burned this week. Whatever shade or adjective you choose to describe the current D.C. Council, most agree that it is the greenest, most eco-friendly bunch in the city’s history.
The mayor, the policeman, the aftermath of a shooting
- James Haskel and Adrian Fenty are both successful native sons of the capital city.
Officer James Haskel tells his side of story
- James Haskel has been in the news plenty since last fall, but much of what has been written and said about him is flat-out wrong. Here, for the first time, Haskel speaks at length about his ordeal.
Klingle Road heads back toward nature
- Klingle Creek was bubbling along with a soft murmur Thursday morning. A chilly spring rain tapped on the forest leaves and muffled the sound of the kids playing at Washington International School just over the hill.
Welcome to Gulag D.C.
- In brutal authoritarian regimes — I’m thinking Korea and Vietnam during our wars with them, or Stalinist Russia — the practice of forcing a confession is the standard fare of movies. It’s also based on fact.
Charter school movement wins the education war in District
- The war between the charter school movement and D.C. public schools is over. Charters have won, if victory means that charter schools are thriving and here to stay. Fact is the nation’s capital has been a lab for charter schools, and the experiment is a success.
Justice Department is gone, but cops still feel handcuffed
- A cop pal of mine is working the midnight shift downtown a few weeks ago. He’s parked in his scout car having “lunch” at 2 a.m. He hears the grind of metal on metal. He looks back to see a car dragging its hub and shooting sparks.
Free D.C. — from taxes
- District residents, like all good and audit-fearful Americans, paid up by yesterday. Yours truly forked over around $30,000 in federal taxes, most of it withdrawn from my wife’s and my paychecks before it reached our pockets.
‘Shameful’ profiteering over four dead sisters
- Am I wrong, or is there something fundamentally uncivilized and downright infuriating for Norman Penn, who fathered B.J. Jacks, to sue the city for $25 million because, as he alleges, the city failed to protect his daughter?
Bad guys talk tough to keep bad boys from jail
- Some of the city’s baddest ex-cons got together with some of our top ex-cops Monday at Ballou Senior High to try and shock the school’s bad boys into staying out of trouble.
The D.C. family business riots could not drive out
- Jay Levy was hanging out in his Takoma Park apartment the night of April 4, 1968. Maybe playing music. Maybe rapping with friends. He was 20. His father, Isadore, called.
Fighting words at Wilson High: Is it racism or just reality?
- Chancellor Michelle Rhee phoned the other day to correct the record about recent violent episodes at Wilson Senior High.
Ranking D.C. teams’ owners
- Time to play rate the owners!