Mayor Gray to hit familiar themes in State of the District address

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray will for a second consecutive year focus much of his State of the District address on the city’s fiscal health, its school system, crime rate and economic development, a top aide told The Washington Examiner. “The mayor has a general overarching group of themes that he’s talked about before,” mayoral spokesman Pedro Ribeiro said. “[The speech] will pull from all of those areas.”

Ribeiro said D.C. has made progress in each of Gray’s four major policy areas — successes Gray will tout in his address ?– but acknowledged the city has more work to do.