Jeffrey Anderson
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Reporting on D.C. via @DistrictDig . Thoughts and words my own. byjeffreyanderson @gmail .com
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Disagree. D.C. did this to itself. Tone-deaf
@councilofdc
lacking in restraint. Overly politicized and overly ideological approach to a critical reform effort that otherwise comes with valuable and necessary changes in the law. They could've/should've worked this out.
Our Democratic President is actively undermining the District’s local government and setting back our DC Statehood efforts. A terrible decision that opens the door to further Congressional meddling and threats to our local self determination.
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This is neither endorsement nor rebuke of
@charlesallen
. But this recall is a joke. The hysteria and demagoguery behind a legitimate crime epidemic speaks to the clueless notion that politicians control what happens in the streets. If they do, why not look citywide? Or inward?
How many Republicans are backing the push to recall Charles Allen? The list is so long it wouldn’t fit into a screenshot
I found that the recall campaign is overwhelmingly funded by lobbyists of both parties, undermining claims of its grassroots support:
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The recall is bullshit. R or D, get engaged, and get informed. To blame an epidemic decades in the making on one man, much less one man in one ward, is idiotic.
Rs live & work in Ward 6. They pay taxes. They worry about family safety, same as Dems do.
Shame on disparaging this grassroots effort. Ward 6 is diverse in many ways. There are a lot more Rs in it than simply on voter rolls.
Citizens of all ideological stripes are fed up.
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15 year playing career and still with the team. He's a
@RedSox
for life--just as God intended!
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This one really pisses me off.
NEWS:
Senate Dem aides are frustrated with the Biden administration for withholding materials they need to investigate Jared Kushner's Saudi deals, sources tell me.
It's become "unacceptable," Sen Wyden says. It's hampering probe of Trump-Saudi dealings:
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Couldn't believe
@councilofdc
denied new repair $$$ for public housing in favor of $$$ for a street car extension that will NOT GET BUILT THIS DECADE. Ever been inside Garfield? I have. This year. No one with a beating heart who visited here would choose street car over repairs.
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Erin Palmer Is Looking to Unseat D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson
I like political profiles. This is a race to watch. Palmer doesn’t strike me as an ideologue. She seems interested in government working for people. Mendelson has become a power broker.
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I am in no way defending
@charlesallen
or his policies. But this recall is politically motivated, vindictive, and fueled by people who don't live in Ward 6 yet want to stop a guy they don't like from seeking citywide office. It's cynical, wasteful, badly conceived. It will fail.
@keshinil
The recall mechanism is a tool for voters remove an elected official--for any reason, including policies that are out of step with constituents. The beauty of the process is that every voter gets to play. If you want to keep the official, then you work for that person.
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Seems to me Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners have graduated from being primarily concerned with parochial issues in their own wards and have begun organizing themselves into a body looking to fill a leadership void on citywide issues, with transparency as a core value.
DC Council Jack Evans mtg is tomorrow at 9:30am in room 502.
@ChmnMendelson
office provided info. Asked why info isn't on DC Council website & was told that it was an "administrative meeting." Ok. But again, why isn't mtg info on the website & why isn't
@ChmnMendelson
taping it?
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Love this trail so much. If D.C. is getting anything right it's the Anacostia River bike trail system.
Today, despite helping raise a newborn, I joyfully biked to a physical therapy appointment in Yards Park
I bike because its easy and quicker often than driving. It works! Its practical. I bike because it makes me healthy and happy. More than anything I
#bikeD
because its fun!
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I hope it’s not a dumb question, but why is D.C. “opening up” while experts are warning of even more contagious variants and advising the public to double up on masks?
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@JFBelfiore
@Joe_Gerth
@courierjournal
Would explain a lot about a number of insane assertions and positions by those two.
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This is what Union Market could have evoked. Instead there's an overpriced food hall with a greedy owner jacking up rents and cycling tenants through like a carousel. D.C. just can't have nice things sometimes. Low quality ambitions guided by suburban developers.
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Good to see the Post credit
@killmoenews
for breaking this on Twitter. Him and
@RealTimeNews10
and
@alanhenney
do great public service with their up-to-the-minute crime reporting via social media. Indispensable at a time when local mainstream news coverage is stretched thin.
Three D.C. police officers suspended after video shows man repeatedly struck during arrest
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“They were our Beatles.”
—George Hurley, drummer, Minutemen
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ('81) captures the thriving Los Angeles punk scene of the early 1980s.
X - Beyond and Back
#punkrockhistory
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Take a moment to commend
@kdrkrepp
and her fellow advisory neighborhood commissioners for their leadership in demanding accountability and transparency.
.
@wmata
has responded to all the public officials asking about the
@JackEvansWard2
investigation results. The full letter is here: cc:
@kdrkrepp
@PLKDC
@Erinfor4B02
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The Maryland | Delaware | DC Press Association has announced that .
@DistrictDig
is a winner in its annual Contest in a special division for members of
@spj_tweets
for its (ongoing) series on
@JackEvansWard2
. The Dig Abides, and appreciates the recognition:
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Epic.
“Ppl heard the song & thought, 'This is great,'” Dave Grohl said about “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “But when kids saw the video.. they thought, 'This is cool. These guys are kinda ugly & they're tearing up their f**king high school.'”
Released today in ‘91
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“The piano has been drinking
My necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to New York
The jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut
And the spotlight looks like a prison break
'Cause the telephone's out of cigarettes
And the balcony's on the make…”
—Tom Waits
Croaking on like a sickly Louis Armstrong impersonator and waxing literary like Randy Newman with a concussion, Tom Waits’ ‘Small Change’ is the funniest and most nourishing of his early Bukowski-by-way-of-Cole Porter LPs. “Nice work if you can get it/ Now who the hell said it?”
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The problem she’s having is socioeconomic disparity and despair has worsened on her watch despite one of the most prosperous eras in D.C history. For years, D.C. was riding high, with surplus funds, AAA bond rating, a boom economy and gratuitous spin, yet people in need suffered.
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Unparalleled. When those two harmonized, it couldn't get any better.
Richard Manuel died on this day in 1986.
💔
Rick on Richard: "He brought a lot of powers and strengths to the group. He brought in gospel music from his church upbringing. Plus, he loved to play and just come up with new things. It was like having a force of nature in the band."
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Superb investigative reporting by
@stevesthompson
for
@washing_post
. Shoe leather! Photo credit! Great follow up on the housing voucher exposé from several months ago, showing us the human cost and societal dysfunction created by failing housing policy.
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Yet a one-man show called
@RealTimeNews10
scoops them all day long and twice on Sunday on deadly crime in D.C. and its environs.
TIL the Washington Post has a Twitter feed dedicated to just crime stories.
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Lawsuits are a legitimate recourse when the city CAN’T FOLLOW ITS OWN DAMN LAWS. So stop blaming citizens for the regressive and unethical planning bureaucracy.
DC has gone from 28 PUDs in 2015 to 3 last year because of lawsuits.
@atrueblood
@OPinDC
#GGWashLive
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Read this by
@keshinil
. Remember the names of D.C. activists and independent journalists. Take heed of them, especially when they go loud on a subject and stay loud about it. Usually means they're on to something, and should not be dismissed.
#vigilance
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I think it means what it says: That there are covid metrics, and there are the decisions of the Bowser administration. And one is not necessarily tied to the other. In this case, as I recall, the Mayor explicitly said she had her own experts advising her. So who is advising her?
@juliezweil
What does this tweet mean?
We have never tied dial up and dial back to specific metrics.
What’s being “refused” “this time”?
@semelm
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The situation at .
@DC_Housing
continues to worsen, as an internal auditor invokes whistleblower protection and alleges retaliation by Executive Director Brenda Donald in response to an audit requested by a Board member. Read about it in District Dig:
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Haven’t been out much the last 5 weeks. Couple times for supplies, couple walks around the neighborhood. But even as people keep dying, and predictions are 1 in 7 will get it here in D.C., people get in your space, even as you try and distance and are clearly uncomfortable.
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I weep for Union Station. Talk about lack of stewardship. One of D.C.'s grandest features, so pivotal to local and regional travel, just mismanaged right into the hands of a cruel pandemic and a gridlocked renovation. It'll be a different decade by the time it returns to form.
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Raise your hand if you'd like to see this guy continue to challenge
@MayorBowser
week-in and week-out. Someone needs to do it. Could it be him?
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Would like to extend condolences to the folks at
@Fragers
for the loss of longtime employee Frank Winchester, age 40, who was killed in a shooting on the 1400 block of L Street NE on Monday. Condolences to Frank's family and friends. Too much death by the gun.
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I got behind the rock at
@wcp
and pushed it up that hill in .
@DistrictDig
. But it took
@washingtonpost
for that rock to become a boulder that rolled down the other side and over
@JackEvansWard2
. Thanks to
@stevesthompson
,
@McCartneyWP
, and support from
@FenitN
and
@PeteJamison
.
The AG gives shout outs to reporters
@stevesthompson
and
@JeffAndersonDC1
for their pursuit of Evans involvement with the company and uncovered checks and shares of stock in the company that Evans received and, he says, later returned.
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That’s a loss she is well-respected. Morale has to be at all time low.
I don’t think politicians understand police/police work. I know they do not feel supported. Asked a cop the other day, “you down to 3,300 sworn members?” He’s like, “shit, maybe 2,000.” Neither of us laughed.
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Anyone wondering why we are just now hearing things like this from the Mayor:
“Part of what we're talking about is how a city as prosperous as ours can be more equitable," Bowser said in remarks at a late-morning launch held at Shiloh Baptist Church.”
After 8 years?
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These two are the most disgusting couple in American public life I can think of. Just the worst. Smug, vicious hypocritical. Vile. How did this happen? What is their excuse? Was Thomas that radicalized by his confirmation? Was he always this guy? What rock did she crawl out from.
I suppose the
@WSJ
would be offended if someone referred to a $3,500 bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Echezeaux Grand Cru as “an expensive bottle of wine” rather than just “a bottle of wine.”
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This is a bad idea. Those centers are one of the things the city got right. It's true, the one near me on Barracks Row is empty every time I go in there, but it is a great resource, with masks, tests and vaccines--for free! For public health reasons alone, this seems premature.
News from
@_DCHealth
: All COVID centers will close as of March 31, after operating continuously since January, 2022. Will really miss them because they were nice and convenient. Memories. Feeling emotional. Check out some of their numbers:
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That's easy: .
@dcpl
is an example of what leadership and vision can accomplish. The central branch is the pride of the District, from its first class renovation to the myriad services it offers and events it hosts.
DC folks! What are the best DC government services and programs that more people should know about?
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Member for my whole life. Not happy to learn of this.
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Here's some of the best goddamned reporting/writing I've seen in a while, by .
@alexatimeaus
and .
@AndrewGiambrone
.
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D.C. definitely has a problem with social media and youth violence. But lawsuits with 41 other states are the easy way to score political points more than anything. D.C.'s street culture is unique, and that connection to how social media fuels crime is unique. Act local.
NEW: We’re suing Meta for endangering District youth.
Meta designed Instagram with features that lure in and addict kids, putting profits over their well-being. This lawsuit seeks to end Meta’s exploitation of young people and remedy the damage it's done to an entire generation.
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I now see public financing is a bigger deal than I thought it would be. Over time, perhaps a game-changer, as D.C. edges ever so slowly away from the pay-to-play system that it has embraced for too long.
I've gotten a little carried away with analysis of campaign finance reports for the
#DCision20
Ward 2 race, but I'm sure there are some nerds out there who will enjoy it.
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Reminder:
@DC_Housing
Director Brenda Donald has yet to say who approved her $41,250 bonus, which exceeds the percentage allowed under her contract, and requires Board approval. No member—past or present—has said they approved it. So who signed off on it?
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What to do on a rainy Monday? Post a
@DistrictDig
EXCLUSIVE:
EagleBank, which retained
@JackEvansWard2
as a consultant, after he helped boost their local deposits w/city funds, also had earlier loaned him $$$ secured by his home in Del Ray Beach, Florida:
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You want some incitement? Okay, here’s some: I wonder what a skilled and relentless plaintiffs lawyer could do with these facts.
The day before a gunman in El Paso carried out the deadliest attack against Latinos in modern US history, the Texas governor sent out an anti-immigrant fundraising letter calling on Republicans to “DEFEND TEXAS NOW” and “take matters into our own hands”
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What’s this you say? A Monday morning scoop by
@DistrictDig
?
@DC_Housing
Executive Director Brenda Donald makes more than the Mayor and her own contract requires Board approval that does not appear to have happened.
And it exceeds what the law allows.
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D.C. is never too strapped for
@MayorBowser
to go for a taste of the good life on the taxpayer’s dime.
DC Mayor Bowser travel to Masters Tournament paid by taxpayers
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While I cannot and do not endorse any particular candidate I'm gratified to see my reporting in
@DistrictDig
gain some traction. The public hears a lot about policy and politics but it's important to remember we are talking about the disenfranchisement of lifelong Washingtonians.
The dysfunction at the DC Housing Authority is disqualifying for the Mayor. DCHA misspent over $80 million and has failed to provide basic services to our city’s vulnerable residents.
Read my full statement:
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It was a nice day—if violence did not visit you or a loved one.
Keep doing your thing
@RealTimeNews10
!
D.C. appreciates what you do!
Hat tip to
@alanhenney
we can’t have too much of this up to the minute reporting.
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Per
@730_DC
, the District of Columbia has the country’s fourth-highest rate of stillbirths, and the Black infant mortality rate is 5X higher than white counterparts.
That's some shameful shit right there.
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Would rather have not written this piece on the death of the brilliant and indomitable Tommy Keene. RIP Tommy.
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Now?
@wcp
broke the story—credit where credit’s due, kids!—and
@DistrictDig
advanced it:
Bigfoot’s arrival to the story is welcome. Everyone knows that that’s when it really “matters”. Now keep going
@washingtonpost
. D.C. needs you!
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I’ve said it: There’s a double standard. And in this case a triple standard given the singularity of the official and everything he does and stands for. No one—not a single one on
@councilofdc
—rolls like him. And yesterday, they finally signaled they might—might—have had enough.
Remember when Chairman Mendelson forced Vincent Orange to resign from DC Council because he took a second job at DC Chamber of Commerce? where’s that energy for jack Evans? What could the difference be 🧐
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Appreciate D.C. officials' support for local media. Here's how to really show it: Engage with those left who report in the public interest.
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This is bullshit. Everyone knows black D.C. residents are getting shafted in a developer/restaurant fueled frenzy. Ain't no matter of religion. It's about our leaders and their corporate fealty. Which involves--Guess What?--a ruling elite that comes in all colors and stripes.
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D.C. property records and emails obtained by FOIA show
@JackEvansWard2
using his
@councilofdc
email account and office to conduct personal mortgage loan transactions that his colleagues might want to ask him about. The latest, from
@DistrictDig
:
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I find this constant "community input" schtick to be monotonous and somewhat insulting, in that they always do what the same people are telling them anyway--Psst: It's not everyday people--and very well may have already made up their minds.
The D.C. government wants to hear from you before deciding when/how to reopen!
Among the questions: how are you exercising, how do you recover in ways that further equity and is the stay-at-home order too strict or not strict enough?
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Five murders in D.C. yesterday--relegated to the briefs inside the Metro section.
I did a double-take. Did I read that correctly?
Good lord...
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This is probably true.
Mike Bloomberg could have fixed the water pipes in Flint, never run one ad, and won Michigan.
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Who's that bearded man walking toward the door, hanging something on the handle? It's
@charlesallen
, pounding pavement on a Sunday night.
#ShoeLeather
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Why is the Mayor’s legal counsel the sole investigative body? Who is going to put her on the record? And, why the actual fuck are you not even mentioning these two obvious gaps in this scenario? You have a silent
@councilofdc
, an AWOL AG…Are all of you afraid of
@MayorBowser
?
NEW: Probe finds that John Falcicchio, a top former advisor to Mayor Bowser who resigned in March, sexually harassed staffer. City releases summary of probe Saturday night on a holiday weekend.
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Yeah. Her name is Mary Levy. They should listen to her once in awhile.
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The whole fiasco puts the lie to this purported image of D.C. as a “progressive” city.
All this energy and drama to unseat
@tweetelissa
just because she believed DC workers having paid family leave was essential for a thriving, progressive world class city? Geez.
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"Look away
Look away down Gower Avenue, look away..."
With its looming hotel bills, trees like crucified thieves and the rough burden of all the margaritas Hollywood has on offer, Warren Zevon's "Desperadoes Under The Eaves" ranks amongst the best songs ever written about being trapped in the wrong place at the right time. Lookaway.
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The amount of attention paid to his missteps is wildly disproportionate to the activities of
@JackEvansWard2
. Why is that?
Remember when Trayon White gave $500 in constituent money to the Nation of Islam? Campaign finance officials said it was inappropriate, but closed the case after White paid his constituent services fund back
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Dean Martin, pride of Steubenville, has a tear in his eye, up there in the deep blue sky.
Steubenville, Manchester and democracy
A 🧵
Last night, PBS and the iconic Judy Woodruff aired a story about the plight of Steubenville, Ohio. You should watch it. All of Ohio should.
(Link below):
It’s the story of Ohio that state leaders don’t want told.
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If I’m running for mayor, this is the glossy flier that gets shoved through your mail slot.
One was removed in disgrace, one was forced to resign, one was impeached, one gassed their own residents and blamed it on another one, all want to be elected again, crazy to think about this image.
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The he said/she said take by
@JackEvansWard2
and his lawyer and
@ChmnMendelson
is a huge distraction from the core issue: What is
@councilofdc
doing to reconcile the findings that Evans played a consulting role for people with business before the Council? It's really that simple.
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SCOOP:
@DistrictDig
has it for you, serious internal findings of voucher fraud at
@DC_Housing
.
If I'm waiting 10-15 years for a housing voucher--or 10-15 months for that matter--this is no laughing matter.
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New, from
@DistrictDig
: The Dig has sued the D.C. government over its denial of FOIA requests on the award of a lottery-sports betting contract to
@Intralot
.
In 2019,
@councilofdc
exempted the city from procurement law and awarded a no-bid contract.
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Here, Mr. King speaks to the elusive nature of our gun crisis: The impulse to injure/kill another person. Where does it come from? What causes it? How can we address it, treat it, lessen it, eliminate it as a societal menace? I don't hear city leaders talking in these terms.
D.C.’s homicide crisis isn’t just about guns. It’s about why people are willing to kill,
@KingC_I
writes.
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Honored and grateful for recognition of our work at
@wcp
. Props to
@AndrewGiambrone
and
@alexatimeaus
.
🎉
@Commof100DC
recognizes work of
@wcp
- editor/reporters- especially
@jeffreyanders19
&
@AndrewGiambrone
(not present)
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Mayoral control of schools gave the mayor the power to control the real estate. Just like DMPED. It was about the real estate. It was always about the real estate.
DC closing down and selling off their schools is going to go down as one of the most short sighted decisions in the history of this city. All to the gain of for-profit education. Truly shameful.
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There it is, right there, that sums it up.
The media should cover all the violence occurring in DC daily like they are doing with this daylight GTown shooting.
#WashingtonDC
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Boy did they get this one right. Stunning in its attention to detail in honoring both the architect’s vision and D.C.’s cultural and historical legacy. I am a huge fan!
MLK Library has to be one of, if not the, best public buildings I've ever been in. What a treasure for DC.
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Without
@kdrkrepp
and a band of relentless ANCs we wouldn't know half of what we've found out in recent weeks. Think on that for a moment. They are doing the job that
@councilofdc
isn't.
IMP piece. Shows a pattern of the Mayor saying she will do something & “ordering” agencies to do it. But then noenforcement, data collection or transparency on progress & facts. Leaving the public in the dark & some-incl MINORS -at risk of harm. Thx
@jeffreyanders19
&
@kdrkrepp
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EXCLUSIVE:
@DistrictDig
goes DEEP inside the Congress Heights Metro Station development gone awry, and finds serious problems with the way in which elderly tenants were displaced--and a neighborhood was doomed to blight:
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These kinds of stories are hard to write, for so many reasons.
@paulschwartzman
and
@emmersbrown
do a fine job, on an assignment fraught with complexity, sensitivity, and no small amount of risk, for all concerned.
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Tell it to the communities that suffer some of the greatest inequities in the country.
It is absolutely amazing how much DC’s financial stability has improved in the past 20 years. It went from essentially bankrupt to the envy of many other cities.
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Also raked $200,000-$450,000 for years he reported outside income from NSE Consulting LLC—once he went back tried to clean up his reports. (Btw/How ridiculous is the revenue range on the disclosure form? And why is
@councilofdc
permitting a loophole that is used by one member?)
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Citizen of the year.
My friend Charles is one in a million. This is his brain child - bring food and and give out haircuts to the homeless in Kalorama park.
@pottershousedc
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It was such a pleasure reporting on Ivy City’s effort to preserve the Crummell School legacy. Look for more from
@DistrictDig
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While we're talking out of school, .
@wcp
editor was holding (spiking?) my Dec. '17 story on
@JackEvansWard2
and Digi Media before serving me walking papers. Imagine when I opened a FOIA a couple weeks later and saw an email showing Jack soliciting a paid internship for his son...
"If you speak to any reporter who has chased down a story, whether it be for a month or 2 to 7 months, everybody has a version of their story getting killed."
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The problem with
@DCAttorneyGen
is he, like his predecessor, is AWOL on public corruption. And he steers clear of the Mayor. He refers matters to USAO, loans them lawyers but avoids anything messy. He's supposed to rep the people! Wide latitude to do that.
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You could say he was in the vanguard of punk rock and art and counter culture…and you’d be right!
Released 46 years ago
Blank Generation, the debut album by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, featuring the title track 'Blank Generation'
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
CBGB 1977
#punkrockhistory
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Crucial thread. McCarthy and the Goon Squad are cartoonish in every single thing they do. They stand for nothing. Not a single thing. Do not budge.
1. In 2011, Barack Obama entered into negotiations with House Republicans. They wanted the president to cut future spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling to borrow more money.
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You two keep getting after it. You are serving the public and the public needs to know.
@LindsayAWatts
@fox5dc
I have to give
@alanhenney
FULL CREDIT, for reporting on these Carjackings last year. He was probably one of a very few, consistently highlighting how bad it was getting, and this year they are still going. I was not even covering them, now I am.
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@JenniferJJacobs
So effing what if he heard you! Are you joking? Is this what you spend your time doing? Yelling at the guy to get him to honor a fallen icon? Who are you, the protocol police? The decency police? The morality police? Do you see what you’ve been reduced to?
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An overlooked aspect of this story is
@MayorBowser
had no policy in place—even after she made a big MeToo pronouncement.
See, she says stuff, and no one ever checks her on it.
Well,
@kdrkrepp
and I did. In
@DistrictDig
:
Accuser of DC mayor’s top advisor speaks: print edition, WaPo exclusive
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If you live in D.C. and give half a damn about what D.C. is made of then this story will make you angry. Though she has had some help from her predecessors,
@MayorBowser
will go down in D.C. history as "The Displacement Mayor." There is no disputing it. She will own that mantle.
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Forget reporter hours and efforts spent over a 2 year period, any idea of how many PUBLIC$$$ were spent investigating him? Then to have the public help finance his campaign on top of it all? It’ll be years—if anyone bothers—discovering all the things with his fingerprints on ‘em.
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It's a
@DistrictDig
Monday Scoop: Officials
@DC_Housing
have sought outside counsel to investigate possible conflict of interest and procurement implications related to the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners. Other agencies may soon follow suit:
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Watching
@councilofdc
practically apologize to
@JackEvansWard2
as they reprimanded him and had some committee duties stripped was nauseating. Don't they see how his actions change everything they have done together? Sports betting alone looks ripe for a grand jury if you ask me.
My boss at my first political job in DC would say:
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
Never seperate the words you speak from the life you live.
#sunlight
#ethics
#accountability
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I feel bad for parents of
@dcpublicschools
students.
The city has done irreparable harm to its neighborhood school system. They gave up on it. Left it for dead. The maze of options may sound nice, if you are able to capitalize on it, but from the sidelines it looks hellish.
.
@chenderson
@MarkusforDC
if you were to be elected to
@cmdgrosso
’s seat, would you have take the NO vote on Wash Met? Why/why not?
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LOL! Thanks for the vote of confidence Beltway. But I think I landed on the only occupation that would have me—and there is no small amount of objection to that as it is!
@DistrictDig
is what happens when you can’t be told what to do. Wouldn’t have it any other way!
@AlexKomaWCP
It appears that the only person who really knows what’s transpiring at DCHA is
@JeffAndersonDC1
so if we’re basing our support for DC Mayor 2024 on that he’s the only qualified candidate. 🫡
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Shadiness with
@DCLottery
? Say it isn't so. Ten stories by
@DistrictDig
foretold this dubious no-bid contract rammed through
@councilofdc
by
@ChmnMendelson
. Irony: Current chair of oversight
@CM_McDuffie
flipped his vote and helped it pass, then was awarded the Finance Committee.
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How long before some reporter asks Ron DeSantis whether he will pardon Trump if elected president in 2024?
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70 shots. Who is bringing guns/mags with that capacity into a city with such strict gun laws?
update: SHOOTING/ NOW CONFIRMED HOMICIDE WITH MORE THAN **70** SHOTS FIRED--- Alabama Ave at E St SE-DC in the Benning Ridge Neighborhood. Male victim taken to trauma center has died. NEWS PHOTOS TOM YEATMAN:
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No. The recall is cynical, exploitative, manipulative, intellectually dishonest. You wanna recall a singular figure? Why on earth wouldn’t it be the Imperial Mayor? Money, ill will, a coalition of opportunists and malcontents and lust for political annihilation is what this is.
@JeffAndersonDC1
That is the nature of democracy. I don't see your point. We vote out politicians for this very reason, regardless if "others are getting a pass". I think you have an issue with recalls, a legitimate democratic right between elections. I feel you're trying to poison the well here.
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