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....

Alan Blinder

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's administration intensified its criticism of Ward 4 Councilwoman Muriel Bowser on Tuesday as it dismissed her adjustments to Gray's $10.1 billion budget proposal as ignorant and politically tainted, allegations that Bowser, a mayoral candidate, said were baseless....

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

Mayor Vincent Gray's proposed budget slashed the budget for the Commission on the Arts and the Humanities, a grant-allocating agency that supports a number of District arts projects. The proposed budget boosted large building projects in the arts to $5 million over six years. It also sets...

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...

Liz Essley

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

Metro won't be paying D.C. Councilman Jim Graham's legal bills. The transit agency's board of directors denied a petition Thursday from Graham, the board's former chairman, to pay for his private legal counsel in a $100 million lawsuit over a Metro land deal. An independent review...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

A lawyer and former D.C. Council candidate was sentenced to six months in prison for embezzling money intended for his clients. Deairich Hunter, pleaded in January to theft of more than $100,000 in payments from insurance companies that were intended to settle some of his clients' disability...

Alan Blinder

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

When D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's aides count votes ahead of D.C. Council debates about major city contracts, they can skip one office. At-large Councilman David Grosso isn't going to vote for or against any contract. He'll vote only "present." "I don't think the council should be in the business...

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...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

Two District lawmakers are asking members of the D.C. Council to set a goal of ending homelessness in the city within 10 years. "In a growing, thriving city like ours, there is no excuse for allowing individuals, families and children to live on the street, in a car, or without a home. We are...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Monday that at-large Councilman Vincent Orange, who received an admonition from the city's ethics board last week, will not face additional discipline from the council itself. "Not every action by the [ethics] board should require a council action,"...