Latest to Ask for Revie...

The latest body to request an investigation into the Department of Housing and Community Development is the agency itself after it was discovered this week that it spent $5.5 million in city funds for a nonprofit organization to renovate apartment buildings in deals that eventually went...

Photo of the Day: Janua...

Because you can never have enough urban monster truck action. Batman vs. Stone Crusher at Verizon Center, courtesy of Pianoman75 [ more › ] See the original post:  Photo of the Day: January 31,...

Housing Agency Fires St...

The Department of Housing and Community Development has fired an employee involved with overseeing an apartment project by the youth outreach group Peaceoholics in which two Maryland developers allegedly defrauded the city of millions of dollars. [ more › ] More: Housing Agency Fires...

Gray, Brown Respond to ...

Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown have responded to recall petitions that will begin circulating this week. [ more › ] See more here: Gray, Brown Respond to Recall...

Housing Department, Dev...

In a report released this morning, Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) charged developers involved in the sale and rehabilitation of buildings formerly owned by the youth outreach organization Peacoholics with misappropriating District funds. [ more › ] Here is the...

DOJ Fights GOP Voter Su...

Patrick Caldwell, American Prospect When Barack Obama entered the White House, liberals hoped that the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice might return to its proper mission. The agency had been gutted during the Bush years, litigating individual cases of bias without...

ObamaCare Recusal Nonse...

Michael Mukasey, Wall Street Journal No sooner had the Supreme Court agreed to hear the challenge to the constitutionality of the Obama administration's health-care overhaul than chatter began about whether either Justice Elena Kagan or Justice Clarence Thomas, or both, should be...

D.C. Public Library to ...

Hey, if the Office of Tax and Revenue and the Department of Motor Vehicles can do it, why can’t the D.C. Public Library? The city’s bookmasters announced this morning that — beginning December 5 and through February 5 — they’ll be launching their own amnesty...

Graham Mulls Reducing M...

Would eliminating the need to monitor people over the age of 18 improve the performance of the city’s chronically troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services ? Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) thinks so. [ more › ] Originally posted here: Graham Mulls Reducing...

Gray and Lanier Address...

This morning, Mayor Vince Gray and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier updated the public on the investigations into several shootings which took place last night. [ more › ] More: Gray and Lanier Address Halloween...