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>>The City Paper has the full ethics pledge that Mayor Vince Gray has made all those employed by the District of Columbia sign after Monday’s news that some holding city jobs were receiving a paycheck as well as unemployment benefits. It starts like this:

“D.C. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE ETHICS PLEDGE As an employee of the Government of the District of Columbia, I understand that I am a public servant and, thereby, am entrusted with working for the common good of our city and its residents.
As a public servant, I have been given access to governmental power and resources for one purpose: To serve the government of the District of Columbia and the people whom that government represents.”

>>D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Friday that smartphone-related robberies have hit the District hard. “This is a national issue,” she said. “We have done all we can at the local level.”

Police departments around the country are asking cell phone companies to make remote shutdown of the devices possible, thereby diminishing their resale value.

>>In other robbery-related news, a 45-minute police chase in northeast D.C. ended in a burst of flames Friday.

>>What really pushed buttons at the most recent D.C. Council meeting: Snow shoveling laws that date back to the 1920s.

>>A tasty, local collaboration.

>>Heat 106, Wizards 89.

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By Erin Keane in News on February 11, 2012 8:58 AM 0 Comments

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monkeyrotica

"To serve the government of the District of Columbia and the people whom that government represents.”

I guess it's too much to ask for a grammatically correct ethics pledge. That "whom" doesn't need to be there at all. Also, STOP RAPING ANIMALS.

DonKeysHoTea

if i don't ride the green line south bound, or the red line north of union station, can i still use my smart phone? pretty please? maybe i should put it in my backpack, and then the metro transit cops can keep it safe at the "checkpoint". let's all think of ways to move cops from where they might actually be useful, to spots that look sexy for the security theater. best show in town. bad reviews, but indefinite engagement...