Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

The District didn't collect $6.5 million in tax penalties because its chief financial officer refused to enforce a D.C. law tied to electronic-filing requirements for certain businesses, the city's inspector general has found. Businesses facing a tax tab of more than $10,000 are required to...

Matt Connolly

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

District Mayor Vincent Gray announced Monday that 16 former public school buildings would be made available for public charters and other community organizations to use. The move comes amidst growing demand for charter school spots in the city. Roughly 22,000 students were on public charter...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Five years after coming to the District, bringing with it tens of millions of dollars for the local economy, the District's only NCAA football bowl game is headed to Annapolis. "I think it will mean a shot in the arm for our economy," said Annapolis Mayor Joshua Cohen. The District has...

Jonetta Rose Barras

Published: Mon, May 20, 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...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Although Natwar Gandhi, the District's chief financial officer, has accumulated widespread praise for his efforts to rehabilitate the city's economic image since he took office in 2000, his office has been criticized regularly for secrecy and employee misconduct. Gandhi's greatest crisis took...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A D.C. Council committee will hear testimony in July about whether the District should adopt a public financing system for its local campaigns. Ward 5 Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, the chairman of the D.C. Council Committee on Government Operations, said on Monday that his panel will stage a...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

As the House weighs legislation that would halt the controversial Frank Gehry plan for the Eisenhower Memorial, the chairman of the subcommittee with oversight over the project has requested documents showing how $63 million Congress already committed to the project has been spent. Rep. Rob...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

A D.C. man and woman have been sentenced for their roles in the August 2010 kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old woman, officials said. Cinthya Proctor, 21, was sentenced in D.C. Superior Court to 21 years in prison, and Laurence Hassan, 24, was sentenced to 18 years in prison, prosecutors...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A controversial computer-based learning model is competing with eight other proposals to be one of the next charter schools approved for the District. The proposed Nexus Academy of DC, run by a subsidiary of publishing giant Pearson, would offer grades 9 through 12 in Ward 2, eventually...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Man dies after Northeast D.C. shooting A 21-year-old man who was shot early Saturday morning in Eckington area has died, police said. About 3:20 a.m. Saturday, police went to the unit block of S Street NE and found Dontel Price, of Northeast D.C., suffering from gunshot wounds. Price was...