Eric P. Newcomer covers Washington, D.C., government for the Washington Examiner. He joined the staff in January 2013. He has interned for the Macon Telegraph, the Sun Sentinel, the Tampa Bay Times, and the New York Times. He graduated from Harvard in May 2012.
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/13/13 06:10 PM
A court-ordered report shows that the District fails to properly serve some of its developmentally disabled residents. For more than three decades, the city has failed to fully comply with a court ruling that found that D.C. violated the rights of some of the city's institutionalized,...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/12/13 09:00 PM
The movement to derail the Frank Gehry design plan for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial took a big step forward Wednesday, when a House subcommittee approved a bill that would begin a new selection process for the monument's design. The full House of Representatives will next consider the...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/10/13 06:20 PM
Their more well-to-do peers may spend the summer at a sleep-away camp, but thousands of District children face another reality: work, in the form of the Summer Youth Employment Program. Ward 8 Councilman Marion Barry, who started the summer jobs program when he was mayor, stridently criticized...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/10/13 06:20 PM
When District officials scrambled to put in place health insurance exchanges mandated by President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, they faced a number of potential pitfalls -- including the possibility that monthly costs would skyrocket. As insurers have begun unveiling...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/09/13 06:55 PM
Valencia guides beauty queens through pageants and works as hair stylist and beautician at Bang Salon on U Street. He has provided styling advice to the current Miss D.C., Allyn Rose. How did you get into the pageant business? I'm from South America, in Venezuela. Everything is about...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/06/13 08:30 PM
Drivers with valid D.C. licenses could one day find themselves turned away at the airport ticket counter or security lines while the city's Department of Motor Vehicles simultaneously faces a bureaucratic nightmare, if proposals floated by D.C. Council members become law. At least that's what...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/06/13 08:30 PM
The District's program to help guide construction and other city contracts to local business owners has been an easy target for abuse since the city has, until recently, had a single enforcement agent to monitor participating businesses. But the mayor's office says it is taking steps to turn...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/04/13 09:05 PM
Through a multistep legislative maneuver, the D.C. Council found a way to pass vending regulations while stripping away many of the controversial provisions, pushing those decisions back to another day. Tuesday's unanimous vote was a victory for food trucks. It means, for example, that the...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 06/04/13 05:15 PM
The former head of a labor dispute board who resigned last month after admitting that he lived outside the District, in violation of D.C. law, claims that he was forced out for ignoring instructions not to hire white or conservative employees. Ondray Harris, a former deputy chief in the Civil...
By Eric P. Newcomer | 05/31/13 06:40 PM
D.C. marijuana dispensaries thought they'd be open a month ago, but a slow-moving District Department of Health still needs to give doctors the authority to recommend marijuana to their patients. "If you drove by now you'd see the signs are up and everything is ready -- except the doors are...
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