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  • Harry Jaffe: Two running for D.C. mayor are good -- too good?

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Mar 19, 2013

    By Saturday there will be two candidates who plan to run for mayor in 2014. Well, one and a half. Muriel Bowser, who represents Ward 4 on the city council, is scheduled to announce her candidacy. Tommy Wells, Ward 6 council member, has launched an "exploratory committee" to test the waters....

  • Harry Jaffe: D.C. firefighters want Chief Ellerbe gone

    Harry Jaffe

    Updated: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    It's no secret that there's little love lost between D.C. Fire and EMS Chief Kenneth Ellerbe and the rank-and-file firefighters and paramedics. You might expect a natural enmity between management and union members in any public workforce -- especially police and fire -- but the relationship...

  • Harry Jaffe: Cars losing war for D.C. streets

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

    Bike jams are driving me nuts! I'm biking down 15th Street one recent morning toward downtown for a meeting. I am running late. If I can zip through Rhode Island Avenue, I might make it to K Street on time. I'm hammering the pedals. I hit 25 miles per hour. I slow down for a line of cyclists...

  • Harry Jaffe: More ethical shoes to drop in D.C. Council chamber

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Feb 26, 2013

    With the official reprimand of Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham on Monday, I suppose our legislative body would like to see its ethical cloud receding into the rearview mirror. Not gonna happen. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson chose the easy way out. Rather than call for Graham's...

  • Harry Jaffe: Mayor Vincent Gray embraces the Old Guard in replacing Natwar Gandhi

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Feb 19, 2013

    Vince Gray, it turns out, is still a creature of the Old Guard. When he first took office, Mayor Gray reached into the cobwebbed world of the 1990s to staff the mayoral suite, which led to his first ethical lapse. Now, in setting up the process for finding a new chief financial officer, he's...

  • Harry Jaffe: If lawmen take down Natwar Gandhi, I'll eat this column

    Harry Jaffe

    Updated: Tue, Feb 12, 2013

    Before we allow tweeting about the next mayoral race to push Natwar Gandhi's impending resignation out of our collective consciousness, I want to wager on his legacy and suggest a few ways to maintain the District's fiscal health in the coming decades. First, the wager: If Nat Gandhi gets...

  • Jaffe: More D.C. cops coming to a neighborhood near you

    Harry Jaffe

    Updated: Tue, Feb 5, 2013

    We could see the return of Officer Friendly in 2013. More men and women in blue walking beats. More jump-out crews busting drug dealers. More detectives investigating homicides. I am encouraged to report this because Phil Mendelson seems to have had a change of heart. The city council...

  • Harry Jaffe: High hopes for upcoming city council election

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Jan 29, 2013

    Closing in on its 40th year under Home Rule, the nation's capital is starting to attract some terrific, qualified and entertaining candidates for seats on the city council. The race to fill the vacant at-large seat promises to be one of the most interesting elections since I started covering...

  • Harry Jaffe: Cops and D.C. might be close to new labor contract

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Jan 22, 2013

    Six years is way too long for cops in the District to have gone without a new labor contract. You know that, the city knows that, detectives with 30 years who haven't had a raise since 2007 know that. It's a crime. But the cavalry might be coming! I compared notes with incoming D.C....

  • Harry Jaffe: D.C. homeless families in the cold for inauguration

    Harry Jaffe

    Published: Tue, Jan 15, 2013

    Check the temperature as the sun sets Sunday and the Inaugural Balls welcome women in gowns and men in tuxedoes. Freezing temps might cause problems for ladies in stiletto heels but will be good news for homeless families. Because in the nation's capital, the city is mandated by law to provide...


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