June 18, 2013

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  • Harry Jaffe: Farewell to a great paper

    By Harry Jaffe | 06/11/13 07:30 PM

    Given this week's bribery plea by former city council member Michael Brown, I am saving up to pay off my bets that Mayor Vincent Gray would escape the long arm of U.S. Attorney Ron Machen. People scoffed when I said Gray would skate. Now I'm thinking they were right. More on that later. First,...

  • New D.C. taking place along the Anacostia River

    By Harry Jaffe | 06/04/13 09:10 PM

    You missed a great party if you didn't make it to the Tour de Fat festival Saturday along the Anacostia River. The tour's name had nothing to do with body weight. It was part of a national tour sponsored by Colorado's New Belgium Brewing Co., famous for its Fat Tire brews. Fat tire refers to...

  • Harry Jaffe: Once around the bases for baseball in D.C.

    By Harry Jaffe | 05/28/13 08:15 PM

    Memorial Day weekend was a sweet spell for the Washington Nationals and those of us who love Major League Baseball. Skies were clear and weather was cool. Fans filled the stands. The team draws an average of 33,000 a game, better than Boston, Atlanta and Baltimore. The Nationals beat the...

  • Harry Jaffe: Vincent Gray weighs a second term as D.C. mayor

    By Harry Jaffe | 05/21/13 05:50 PM

    In working the streets and the phones to figure out where our nascent mayoral campaign is headed, I realized I was dealing with two realities — parallel universes, if you prefer.

  • Harry Jaffe: Help wanted for Construction Trades Foundation

    By Harry Jaffe | 05/14/13 07:10 PM

    Vocational education has been the ugly duckling of public schooling for years. Allow me to apply the politically correct and cleansed moniker: "career and technical education." Decades ago we all took carpentry, auto mechanics or home economics. Most school districts had at least one vo-ed...

  • Harry Jaffe: Stalemate over documents is a win for Mayor Vincent Gray

    By Harry Jaffe | 05/07/13 06:30 PM

    How to interpret news that D.C. businessman and political kingmaker Jeff Thompson has been able to keep federal investigators from digging into documents that might expose a trail of corruption all the way to Mayor Vince Gray? We learned this week that prosecutors have accused Thompson of...



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