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Harry Jaffe
Accounting 101 from the DMV
- A letter arrived at my home a few weeks ago with ominous origins. The return address was the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles — Adjudication Services.
Cyclists in D.C. could be riding into a war zone
- OK, OK — this is not a fair comparison, but in writing about today’s scheduled inauguration of D.C.’s self-service bike rental program, I have to begin with Vietnam.
The curious case of Wilson Senior High's Art Siebens
- Your average spectator trying to make sense of the breakneck pace of change in the D.C. Public School System might be justified in suffering whiplash.
Rhee’s union pitch long on carrot, maybe short on respect
- Money can’t buy you love, the saying goes.
Go out to the ballgame, but hold your nose
- The Washington Nationals stink, and that’s a good thing, if you are a Philadelphia Phillies fan. Which I am.
Revolution in teacher pay on the table in D.C.
- Another torpid summer seems to be upon us in the nation’s capital. Congress is trying to leave town and get down to the serious business of getting re-elected. Your friends and colleagues are fleeing for the beach or higher ground. The presidential race is taking the action to the hinterlands.
Do the crime — don’t get much time
- If you expect members of the ring of rip-off artists who stole $48 million from the D.C. tax department to spend big time behind bars, take a look at what happened last week in federal court to Ricardo Walters, the first person to be sentenced in the scam.
Homeland insecurity
- The feds rained $72 million on the D.C. region this week to help us get ready for what emergency response planners call a “catastrophic event,” as in a terrorist attack of some kind. Could be a dirty nuke or germs in the water or truck bombs here and there. Added to the $38 million that came our way earlier this year for transportation planning, that comes to $110 million of your tax dollars at work.
Fear factor 2: D.C. Residents fear thugs more than cops
- Fear can be an effective management tool, if it’s applied in the right manner.
Fear factor 1: Police lose control of the streets
- On the matter of Trinidad — the D.C. neighborhood currently wracked by violence — we have heard plenty from police brass, civil libertarians and residents. Now, a word from street cops, the grunts who have to keep the peace.
D.C.’s development boss making deals by the dozen
- I am sitting across from the most powerful public official in Washington, D.C., in the eyes of veteran TV reporter Tom Sherwood. Guess who?
Death of gun ban leaves businesses defenseless
- We have witnessed plenty of thrusts and parries and potshots since the Supreme Court gunned down the District’s “toughest in the nation” firearms ban a few weeks ago. Lawyers and politicians and zealots on both sides of the ever-heated issue of gun rights have been shooting off their mouths. Congress has been making mischief. The mayor and the D.C. Council have changed the local law to make it comply with the Supreme Court’s decision. Legal challenges will ensue.
Michael Marley
NY Boxing Examiner
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