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Alan Blinder

Staff Reporter, D.C. City Hall

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Alan Blinder covers Washington, D.C. government for The Washington Examiner, which he joined in January 2012. Prior to moving to the Washington, D.C. area, Blinder covered business and state government for a newspaper in Louisiana. He also interned for the Houston Chronicle and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News and worked as a stringer for The Associated Press. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama.

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  • Audit: District missed out on $6.5 million windfall

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    The District didn't collect $6.5 million in tax penalties because its chief financial officer refused to enforce a D.C. law tied to electronic-filing requirements for certain businesses, the city's inspector general has found. Businesses facing a tax tab of more than $10,000 are required to...

  • CFO Natwar Gandhi's tenure riddled with secrecy, employee misconduct

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Although Natwar Gandhi, the District's chief financial officer, has accumulated widespread praise for his efforts to rehabilitate the city's economic image since he took office in 2000, his office has been criticized regularly for secrecy and employee misconduct. Gandhi's greatest crisis took...

  • D.C. Council to hold hearing on public financing

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    A D.C. Council committee will hear testimony in July about whether the District should adopt a public financing system for its local campaigns. Ward 5 Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, the chairman of the D.C. Council Committee on Government Operations, said on Monday that his panel will stage a...

  • Mayor Vincent Gray, Councilwoman Muriel Bowser trade barbs over D.C. budget

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's administration intensified its criticism of Ward 4 Councilwoman Muriel Bowser on Tuesday as it dismissed her adjustments to Gray's $10.1 billion budget proposal as ignorant and politically tainted, allegations that Bowser, a mayoral candidate, said were baseless....



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