A quick update to a story we noted back in August -- the District's Historic Preservation Review Board has officially granted landmark status to the Wonder Bread Factory (officially known as Dorsch's White Cross Bakery) at 641 S Street NW in Shaw. more ›

Most everyone knows that the District's government is big -- some 33,000 people work for it. But today, The Washington Times breaks down why it's so costly and how that's slowly changing. more ›

The last three mayors of our fair city have all been tripped up by exactly the same thing -- travel. more ›

Responding to the threat of a proposal from Congress to dictate how the city should vet its hires, the D.C. Council is moving forward quickly on legislation related to D.C. government hiring practices. more ›

UPDATE: Turns out that some intrepid individual grabbed the @DCCouncil handle before the folks at the Wilson Building could, so the @dccitycouncil account has been renamed @dccitycouncil. Given the circumstances, we're also expecting some kind of hilarity from the @DCCouncil feed. more ›

The District's medical marijuana program is proceeding as quickly as, well, someone with a mighty buzz behind the wheel of a car. more ›

Let's take a brief reader survey, shall we? Have any of you ever thought that it was a good idea to do engage in any of the following actions? more ›

With reminders like this, who needs ethics reform? more ›

Today, the D.C. Council took another step towards clarifying how much senior officials in the District's government can get paid. During a council session this morning, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) discussed legislation that would limit D.C. agency heads to a $179,096 yearly salary. more ›

This morning, the D.C. Council was slated to vote on the "Ward Redistricting Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2011" [PDF], a measure which will officially delineate the new boundaries of the city's wards. Kind of important, right? more ›

One time, a friend of mine told me a story about this time he lost his keys. more ›

It's easy to complain about the District's government, and we've certainly all had a run-in with a bureaucrat that clearly seemed to hate their job something fierce. But there's always that one city employee that is courteous, helpful and even goes out of their way to help. more ›

The relationship between the District and the Federal Transit Administration might be at a low point, but things in suburban Maryland couldn't be rosier. more ›

Yesterday, Greater Greater Washington reported a streetcar bombshell: the 11th Street Bridge, currently undergoing an extensive $300 million renovation, would not feature local streetcar tracks as previously planned. So who's to blame? more ›

Yesterday, authorities arrested four men in connection with a massive bribery scheme inside the Army Corps of Engineers. The details of the alleged crime should ring familiar for many D.C. residents. more ›

UPDATE (11:45 a.m.): Federal investigators are now raiding eight other buildings in the District and Virginia in connection with the bribery claims. The names of the the four arrested had not yet been released, though Machen will hold a press conference this afternoon to identify them and the complete slate of charges. more ›

It appears as if at least one employee at the headquarters of the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland is having trouble staying awake on the job. more ›

In the two days since Mayor Vince Gray's nominee to head the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics was all but sunk over questions relating to his residency, city officials have announced that they will start reviewing the "legal sufficiency" of all nominees before making them public. more ›

After a rough-and-tumble Tuesday, the D.C. Council did little to help itself today when its members opted to close a meeting to the press. Journalists present protested the move, which they claimed violated the District's Open Meetings Act. more ›

It didn't take long for government watchdog Dorothy Brizill to strike. Only minutes after Mayor Vincent Gray announced three new nominees to serve on the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics this morning, Brizill threw one of the nominees' qualifications into question by noting that he had not lived in the District for the amount of time required by law. more ›

Sometime in the future, members of the D.C. Council may only serve two consecutive terms, but they'll get paid a lot more for their troubles. more ›

For years it was one of the most visible construction projects around the District -- a massive building rising alongside I-395 in Virginia, brightly lit up at night so that it couldn't possibly be ignored. But the Mark Center, which has started taking in government workers and contractors, remains a worry for local officials, both in terms of traffic and security. more ›

Cornell Jones, the director of the nonprofit which is being sued by the city for allegedly using grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, is quite the character. So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that he's channeling his displeasure with the city's lawsuit into legal action of his own. more ›

According to the Washington Post's Nikita Stewart, under fire deputy chief of staff Andi Pringle will resign from the Gray administration. more ›

Bad news doesn't seem to come in trickles for Mayor Vince Gray's administration, but in waves. more ›

Cornell Jones, director of the nonprofit group which is being sued by the city for using city grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, certainly has some opinions on the matter -- some incredibly homophobic ones. more ›

The City Paper's Alan Suderman reported yesterday that the final tab for D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown's two fully-loaded luxury SUVs that caused such an uproar earlier this year could well approach $25,000. more ›

When the D.C. Council committee investigating the Sulaimon Brown scandal rolled out its final report a few weeks back, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) was careful to note that because of an unfulfilled subpoena for documents from Brown, the whole affair could be dragged back into public view at any time. more ›

"Sacrificing civil liberties OK to fight terrorism say some Americans," reads the headline of this Associated Press report on a recent poll conducted nationwide by the news organization and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Some -- but not most. more ›