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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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  • D.C. sues feds over $20m wage ruling

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    The District is moving a long-running regulatory clash with the U.S. Department of Labor to a courtroom after a series of rulings that threaten to add $20 million in underpaid wages to the cost of a major mixed-use project. The D.C. government's lawsuit, filed in federal court, is tied to the...

  • D.C. gets OK for June unveiling of U.S. Capitol statue

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    The House has approved a measure that will allow Emancipation Hall to host the June unveiling of the first District-selected statue inside the U.S. Capitol. "Today, after years of work, our city receives closure that residents will be represented in the Capitol with a statue, like each of the...

  • Mayor Vincent Gray: D.C. will help Oklahoma 'in any way we can'

    Alan Blinder

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    "My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Oklahoma City and Moore, as well as to the residents of the District who have family members and other loved ones in the affected areas," Gray said in a statement. "The District of Columbia stands ready to help in any way we can in response to...

  • 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...



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