Jonetta Rose Barras: Money management council style

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D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson last week described Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s 2011 financial plan as an “election year budget.” The at-large legislator and N.O.F. (Nemesis of Fenty) must have meant the executive resisted the knee-jerk urge to raise income and property taxes, despite an anticipated revenue shortfall of more than $500 million.

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