14 days ago - More than 60,000 of Verizon D.C.’s residential customers will receive a credit in their August statement to make up for a recent billing error, which is now the subject of an investigation by utility regulators.
15 days ago - The District has spent millions to lease a property in Southeast that was to house critical police functions until the Fenty administration nixed the plan a year ago, leaving the city with an empty, costly shell.
16 days ago - Mayor Adrian Fenty on Tuesday said he bore full responsibility for the chaos and mismanagement in D.C.’s summer jobs program, while forcing out the agency chief in charge and ordering nearly 5,000 youth removed from the payroll.
16 days ago - The District has scrapped plans to build a high-definition television studio that it could rent to commercial production companies, but not before spending more than $4 million to design and equip the state-of-the-art space.
17 days ago - The District’s new traffic counting stations herald a welcome addition given the city’s past troubles clearing the streets of snow and ice: Technology able to provide the D.C. government with real-time updates on snow depth and pavement temperature.
19 days ago - Firearms dealers who apply for a D.C. location will be largely restricted to high density commercial areas downtown and kept at least two football fields away from where people live, play and pray, according to emergency rules now in place.
21 days ago - D.C. Council members on Thursday called for independent investigations of the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program in the wake of its severely busted budget and suspect paycheck practices.
21 days ago - The former chief of the defunct Anacostia Waterfront Corp. and now a top aide to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is alleged to have committed an “ethics violation” by D.C. auditors for his role in a questionable real estate services contract.
22 days ago - The District and Verizon have struck a deal to bring its cable television service to D.C., heralding the first major competition for Washington’s dominant cable provider, Comcast.
22 days ago - The District’s school modernization chief is warning of dire consequences for dozens of facilities if Ward 8 D.C. Councilman Marion Barry doesn’t lift his hold on millions of dollars destined for school renovation.