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D.C. police set up checkpoints in Trinidad, despite lawsuit
July 21, 2008 | 3:00 AMAfter a string of shootings over the weekend, the D.C. Police department has reinstituted checkpoints around the violence-plagued Trinidad neighborhood despite being embroiled in a legal battle over the constitutionality of such Neighborhood Safety Zones.Seven individuals were shot and an eighth stabbed in five separate incidents in Trinidad between 1:07 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. early Saturday morning. Thirteen-year-old Alonzo Robinson, who was visiting from Alabama with his mother, was killed.... »
Council considers raising taxes on Nationals tickets
July 16, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe D.C. Council will consider tacking on another 5 percent sales tax to tickets and most items purchased at Nationals Park in an effort to close a potential shortfall in revenue needed to pay off the stadium debt.Legislation introduced Tuesday by at-large D.C. Councilman David Catania, and co-sponsored by seven of his colleagues, would boost the gross sales tax... »
District officials dispute Pepco’s claim ‘Mother Nature’ causes some outages
July 15, 2008 | 3:00 AMPepco wants to blame odd coincidence, falling trees and running squirrels for the 152 electricity outages in D.C. since January, but residents and local officials aren’t sure they believe what they’re hearing. Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh conducted a hearing Monday to examine causes for a June 13 power outage in 30 busy downtown blocks, including the White House, that knocked out power for roughly 8,500 customers between 7:19 and... »
Fenty aides bypass hearing on schools, vexing D.C. Council
July 14, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe D.C. Council, a week away from its summer recess, is still lacking critical information about expensive school modernization plans, infuriating members who assert the Fenty administration is fixing education facilities slapdash.The council is slated to vote Tuesday on nearly $60 million in school modernization contracts. A hearing Friday that might have cleared up confusion about those deals and others was paralyzed, to the Council’s dismay, because no member of »
Students complain about marginalization to D.C. Council
July 13, 2008 | 3:00 AMD.C. youth sounded off about what they assert is a lack of communication between students, teachers and administrators at a public oversight hearing held by D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray Saturday morning. Marquis Battle of Anacostia Senior High School said many students he's spoken with "feel that adults see students as children, and that they don't know what they're talking about." A recent survey... »
Protesters confront Fenty over plans to redevelop Tenleytown library in new apartment building
July 11, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe District has chosen a developer to rebuild the Tenleytown library beneath a towering 130-unit apartment building, sparking a backlash from neighbors who dread increases in traffic, loss of green space and delays in library construction.Mayor Adrian Fenty announced the partnership with Berwyn, Pa.-based LCOR Inc. during a news conference Thursday at the intersection of Wisconsin... »
D.C. police chiefreshuffling brass, replacing two high-level officers
July 07, 2008 | 3:00 AMD.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is shaking up her command staff again, dropping her top anti-terrorism officer and replacing a commander whom she elevated barely three months ago, The Examiner has learned. The overhaul, expected to be announced later this week, removes Robert Crane, commander of special operations and homeland security. Also being replaced is Mark Carter of the 2nd Police District, who... »
African Americans in D.C. bear burden of subprime mortgage crisis, report finds
July 01, 2008 | 3:00 AMAfrican-Americans in Washington are living on the knife’s edge of the subprime mortgage crisis, a city government study has found. Nearly seven out of every 10 of the loans in D.C. have gone to African Americans, most of them poor or lower middle class, the city’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking report found Monday. And, experts say, the bill is coming due: Foreclosures in D.C. have doubled between 2005 and 2007 and have continued to rise through the first quarter of... »
Pepco faces tough restrictions on disconnections for summer
July 01, 2008 | 3:00 AMPepco will be prohibited from shutting off electricity to any residential customer either on, or in advance of, a very hot day under emergency legislation to be considered today by the council.The resolution bans Pepco from disconnecting residential electric service during the day preceding, and the day of, a forecast of "extreme temperature." The resolution defines extreme as a heat index of at least 95 degrees."It’s obviously a short-term protection, that’s for sure," said Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh, who... »
D.C. begins legal offensive against health care charity
June 25, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe District of Columbia opened a two-front war against a health care charity Tuesday that city officials say is raking in the cash while Washingtonians are languishing without insurance. CareFirst is a congressionally chartered charity that is supposed to help the poor and uninsured. D.C. officials and health care advocates have been appalled as CareFirst raised its rates and built up a $770 million surplus even as it opted out of a... »
Council aims to widen sales ban of single containers of beer in D.C.
June 19, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe D.C. Council is continuing its campaign against single containers of beer in the District, moving to outlaw their sale from Shaw to Logan Circle and in much of Ward 6. Legislation prohibiting the sale of single containers of beer, ale or malt liquor in less than 70-ounce bottles was introduced Tuesday by Ward2 Councilman Jack Evans and... »
Constitutional scholars pan plan to seal zones
June 05, 2008 | 3:00 AMConstitutional scholars threw cold water on Mayor Adrian Fenty’s plan to quarantine violent neighborhoods, warning that the effort to establish sealed off zones may well be headed for court. "It’s still a free country," said District Councilwoman Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University. "You can travel where you want and not have to explain... »
D.C. initiates emergency crane inspections
May 31, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe D.C. government Friday began immediate inspections of construction cranes currently in operation above the city, in the wake of the second deadly crane accident in New York City this year.The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs called on all construction companies to schedule inspections for the roughly 40 cranes flying high above D.C. Whether they call or not, "We'll get to them either way," said... »
Park Service defends actions after finding arsenic at Fort Reno
May 15, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe National Park Service was fending off uncomfortable questions Wednesday after it waited 14 hours to tell the public that one of Northwest’s most popular parks was potentially tainted with poison. The Park Service and U.S. Park Police swooped into Fort Reno Park early Wednesday, moving out pedestrians and throwing up storm fences. Officials said satellite pictures from the »
The name of the game: Finding a Wii
May 09, 2008 | 3:00 AMWard 3 D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh didn’t know that her idea to donate a Nintendo Wii to a senior center would send aide Asher Corson dashing through Northeast Washington in a robe and slippers.But that’s what a Wii will do."He enjoyed the assignment," Cheh said Thursday of Corson, her spokesman. "It took him out of the usual routine."Cheh will donate the Wii... »
D.C. Council tearing apart Mayor’s proposed budget
May 09, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe D.C. Council is poised to reject several high-profile initiatives in Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposed 2009 budget legislation, including a much-maligned strategy to slash public comment on the annual school spending plan.More than 1,000 individuals and organizations had signed a petition as of Thursday urging the council to rid the Budget Support Act of language limiting the public’s opportunity to participate in school budget deliberations. Fenty wants to... »
Top priorities for DDOT don’t top everyone’s list
May 08, 2008 | 3:00 AMMayor Adrian Fenty has ordered the D.C. Department of Transportation to address the "top transportation concerns" citywide, but critics question whether the list the agency compiled was based on real need, or on who made the most noise.The top 26 concerns, from sidewalk repairs to crosswalk repainting, were immediately moved to the front of the line for DDOT action, and mostshould be resolved by Sept. 30, according to... »
Neighborhood leaders say loss of agency liaison could slow response to construction problems
May 07, 2008 | 3:00 AMMayor Adrian Fenty’s 2009 budget proposal eliminates a government position that neighborhood leaders say was critical in their fight against illegal construction and scofflaw businesses.The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ liaison to D.C.’s advisory neighborhood commissions has been vacant since January. The job is being dropped as part of Fenty’s move to purge the government of unfilled positions.But by killing that slot, the mayor has stripped... »
Council backs noise restrictions; area unions furious
May 07, 2008 | 3:00 AMThe D.C. Council on Tuesday narrowly backed an effort to limit daytime noise levels on city streets, a measure heralded by community leaders but condemned by local unions as a crushing blow to their First Amendment rights.The measure, approved by an 8-5 vote, would limit non-commercial amplified speech between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. to 70 decibels in residential areas and 80 decibels downtown and in certain mixed zones — or 10 decibels louder than the surrounding... »
D.C. Council committee rejects camera money, E-911 fee hike
May 02, 2008 | 3:00 AMA D.C. Council committee on Thursday stripped Mayor Adrian Fenty’s 2009 budget of nearly $900,000 slated for the city’s new closed-circuit camera program, an initiative the panel said was started prematurely.The five-member public safety and judiciary committee, chaired by Councilman Phil Mendelson, also erased an increase of a fee levied on phone lines and directed Fenty to reduce recently... »
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