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Jonetta Rose Barras: CFO surprise? Not really
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: 16 hr ago
Anyone who has followed the declining career of D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi isn't surprised by the inspector general's recent report indicating his office failed to collect nearly $7 million in tax penalties from businesses who failed to file electronically. There is a trail of...
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Jonetta Rose Barras: White-black political prison
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013
Oh, let's nip it right now. Tommy Wells isn't running to be the city's first white mayor. If Jack Evans or David Catania jumps in the race, as has been predicted, they won't be vying to be the District's chief executive based on the color of their skin either. When a candidate plays the race...
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Jonetta Rose Barras: Circulating the Circulator
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
Call it the little red and gray bus that could. Launched in 2005, the Circulator had been designed mostly to get riders from one tourist attraction, entertainment center or retail hot spot to another. Inexpensive, reliable and clean, the Circulator has become so popular it seems every D.C....
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Jonetta Rose Barras: At last, D.C. Council finds its voice for education reform
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013
The D.C.Council, through David Catania's leadership, began this week to find its education reform voice. It sent an unequivocal message to Mayor Vincent Gray, DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and others about the standard it expects. Further, it redirected taxpayers' money to programs...
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Jonetta Rose Barras: Curing the disease, not the symptoms
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013
That rumbling sound coming from the John A. Wilson Building is D.C. Council members tussling over recommended changes to Mayor Vincent Gray's $12 billion 2014 budget. Committees have begun reducing expenditures or searching for additional funds to address select programs or satisfy demands of...
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Jonetta Rose Barras: Building a permanent underclass, Part 2
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
When this whole education reform thing started in D.C., there was talk about putting children first. District officials, including then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, advocated for extended instructional days and year-round schooling. Those changes would...
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Jonetta Rose Barras: Election victory?
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the one that ran earlier this week on the front page of the Washington Post's Metro section is a book: There was D.C. Councilwoman Anita Bonds, followed by Marion Barry in a conga line. They were inside the Channel Inn. That was a ferocious blast from...
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Jonetta Rose Barras: Vote Tuesday, and vote for Patrick Mara
Jonetta Rose Barras
Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013
Neither frail nor fragile, Ms. Davidson was slightly passed middle-age, spoke the Queen's English and drank her corn liquor from a demitasse. Mr. Johnny, who had a deformed arm, was just the opposite; He often fractured sentences. June Johnson, who had seen too much brutality at a young age,...
