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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...