The New York Times called it a "new phenomenon." Greater Greater Washington trumpeted that it "will change everything." Mayor Fenty talked about his big head. All part of the hype surrounding today's grand opening of Capital Bikeshare, which replaces SmartBikeDC and promises more than 100 bike sharing stations in the District and Arlington featuring over 1,100 sharable bikes for area cyclists. more ›

D.C.'s much-maligned Summer Youth Employment Program kicked off yesterday, and of course, there were issues. more ›

The Washington Examiner reports that three thieves snuck into Mayor Adrian Fenty's Crestwood garage and nabbed two of hizzoner's mountain bikes, right under the noses of the Mayor's security detail. The thieves left their own crappy bicycles and took off with the Mayor's more pimp rides back on June 3. The bikes were each about a year old and worth $300 apiece, according to the report. more ›

Obviously, we're fond of recently-passed indie icon Alex Chilton around these parts. Fitting then, that one of Chilton's most well-known stanzas -- "hangin' out / down the street / the same old thing / we did last week" -- so accurately describes some of the delays in H Street NE's evolution into the city's next corridor du jour. more ›

A D.C. Council committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Millicent Williams, Mayor Adrian Fenty's nominee to replace Darrell Darnell at the head of the city's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Nikita Stewart reports in the Washington Post. Williams, who still needs to be approved by the entire council, had been thought to be underqualified for the job, but council members were apparently "swayed by Williams's enthusiasm and the overwhelming support she drew at her confirmation hearing." Williams is still in the process of attempting to gain the security clearances she will need before she could effectively head the agency. She was previously president of the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp. and executive director of Serve D.C. more ›

The Examiner's Michael Neibauer picks up on just the latest power struggle between the executive and legislative branches of the D.C. government: Mayor Adrian Fenty has decided he doesn't have to follow the D.C. Council's budget directive to put an end to the existing $19 maximum fare on all taxicab rides originating and ending inside the District. more ›

Last night, D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray's office sent out a terse press release admonishing Mayor Adrian Fenty for not making his agency directors available for this morning's budget hearing. Only City Administrator Neil Albert would be there, he had been told, meaning more than a dozen agency directors were being held back by the executive. This was classic Fenty -- just straight out refusing to play ball with the council whenever it tries to carry out its oversight duties. So you could understand Gray issuing a statement like this one: more ›

As we mentioned briefly in the roundup, Adrian "Mr. Personality" Fenty resurfaced on WRC/NBC4 early this morning, during the mayor's regularly scheduled Thursday appearance on the local news channel. more ›

On top of having to oversee a massive snow removal operation, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty now also to worry about his political standing in the midst of the region's largest winter storm in decades. more ›

It's an awkward truism of urban politics that a snowstorm can be the undoing of an elected official. Take too long to get the snowed cleared off the roads -- like Marion Barry in 1987 when the city struggled for a week after a snowstorm, which he missed because he was in California at the Super Bowl -- and you're an out-of-touch executive leading an inefficient government. Respond quickly -- like Mayor Adrian Fenty was credited for doing after the December 2010 2009 storm -- and people will applaud. more ›

There is one way to make sure all your friends show up for your tedious re-election fundraiser: Host it on your birthday, the way Mayor Adrian Fenty celebrated his 39th. While the strategy may add to the campaign coffers and speed through the birthday cake, it's kind of a scumbag move. Friends would be right to protest, or at least to mutter under their breaths while they're signing yet another supportive check. Particularly when Mayor Fenty's invitation whines about how he should have a totally awesome mansion but doesn't. more ›

Should the District's early-out/easy-out retirement payments be considered a "bonus"? This is the debate in the latest chapter of the overarching tiff between the Fenty administration and the D.C. Council. The Examiner's Michael Neibauer reports today that four District employees have been denied such exit payments by the Department of Human Resources, after the Council approved a 2010 budget which outlaws all "bonuses and special payments" to District employees. more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty appeared on WRC/NBC4 this morning to take questions from Barbara Harrison on the whole cycling team police escort/WTOP brouhaha. The mayor actually did a pretty good job explaining himself to Harrison, noting (correctly) that his security detail has been greatly reduced since he first took office, but at the same time appearing contrite and promising to do away with the motorcycle escort during his training exercises from now on. more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has named Bryan Sivak, a founder of the Silicon Valley company InQuira, as his new chief technology officer, both D.C. Wire and City Desk are reporting. Sivak, 34, was introduced for the first time by the mayor at a press conference at city hall this morning. The nominee takes over for interim chief Chris Willey, who had been tasked with minding the OCTO ship since the departure of Vivek Kundra, who left the agency for a spot in the Obama administration. OCTO has also been rocked by scandal this year, following a string of arrests in a federal bribery sting tied to the agency. Sivak will have to be confirmed by the D.C. Council. more ›

Attention, Columbia Heights! The official word has just come down that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty will formally dedicate the new Columbia Heights Plaza and "Resonance" Fountain on Monday, Sept. 28 at 10:30 a.m. So let all the endless speculation cease. It does seem, however, that the plaza itself was pretty much mostly done and open last night. more ›

A majority of D.C. voters disapprove of the job D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is doing, according to the results of a WJLA/SurveyUSA poll released this afternoon. Of 500 D.C. voters surveyed, 51 percent disapproved of his job performance, while 40 percent approved. more ›

The final tally is in on this year's Summer Youth Employment Program, courtesy the Washington Post's Nikita Stewart. The program cost $41 million this year, which is "significantly less than last year, when the mayor promised a job to any youth who wanted one, but enough to eclipse similar programs in most big cities." This year's program was criticized less for payroll problems and more for employed kids either doing a crummy job or appearing to be doing not much at all. And of course, remember that the D.C. Council has limited the 2010 program to only $20 million, which would hardly cover the kind of all-inclusive program for which Mayor Fenty has always pushed. For his part, Fenty appears unconcerned: 'Fenty said he is determined to find a way around the council's caps on next year's program. "There's a long time between now and next summer," he said.' more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty presided over the opening of a fabulously-appointed new dog park at 17th and S Streets NW yesterday (along with a refurbished park for all living things at 17th and T, but the focus was clearly on the pooches' new playground). As theses photographs illustrate, the park features a hill-shaped, artificial grass surface and a water fountain designed specifically for dogs. more ›

We've been giving the largely lame-o @MayorFenty Twitter feed a hard time for a couple of days now. This is after word of the presumed official mayoral feed first came out earlier in August. But now, weeks later, the Mayor's Office is saying that the @MayorFenty feed isn't actually theirs, City Desk reports. more ›

The ongoing saga of the abrupt eviction of the Recreation Wish List Committee, run by Cora Masters Barry, from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center keeps attracting more and more big guns. D.C. Wire updates today that none other than Maya Angelou and Dorothy Height were trying to get a meeting with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty this past week to discuss the matter. And to make matters worse, sources are telling the Post that Fenty canceled not one, but two meetings with the women. And just when you thought Fenty's office couldn't appear to be any more callous on this issue. But wait! What's that you say, @MayorFenty?

Missed meeting with Dr. Maya Angelou & Dorothy Height was due to scheduling conflicts and not disrespect :-)

Perhaps you've been enjoying the often entertaining fake Adrian Fenty Twitter feed, @fentydc, for some time now. We know we have. A recent example why: "Reporters, go ahead and rail about my unexplained travel, compulsive workout schedule and Axe body spray-but lay off my kids. Seriously." That's funny stuff. more ›

City Desk got the scoop on Friday that the ghost bike memorial for Alice Swanson -- who was killed over a year ago after she was struck by a vehicle near the intersection of Connecticut and R Street NW -- had been removed by the D.C. Department of Public Works. more ›

It still amazes me just how little D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty seems to understand about talking to reporters. The more he categorically refuses to answer a single question about the process that took place to enroll his two sons in the high-performing Lafayette Elementary School, even though their neighborhood school is West Elementary, the more journalists are going to keep after this story. If you've ever wondered what it's like to talk to Fenty in the middle of a press scrum, just check out the video below, courtesy NBC4's Tom Sherwood. Mike DeBonis has a write-up with full audio of yesterday's heated exchange over at City Desk as well. more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is running for re-election, and so far no viable candidate has formally declared an intent to run against the incumbent (though there are plenty of rumors about At-large D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown). A story from the Examiner today may help persuade someone to step to the plate sooner rather than later, however. A recent poll conducted by D.C.-based Successful Capital Strategies shows that six in ten District Democrats would be "open" to voting for someone other than Fenty in the next election. more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty likes to keep active. The man gets up almost every day and runs, bikes or otherwise exercises for a solid hour (if not more), and he likes to be seen always zipping across town to take care of his mayoral business, whether in his little Smart Car or his big Lincoln Navigator. But ever since Fenty got in a fender-bender about a week ago, the Washington Post has had a hard-on about whether or not the mayor did anything wrong to cause the accident, and today Nikita Stewart goes ahead and asks the question: Should the mayor be driving himself around the city at all? more ›

Maybe it's just August doldrums, but I'm having a hard time getting too worked up about today's revelation that Mayor Fenty's weekend fender-bender may not have happened exactly the way his spokesperson first said. From the Post:

Spokeswoman Mafara Hobson wrote in an e-mail Sunday that "a vehicle ran a stop sign and pulled out in front of the Mayor's vehicle, causing a collision." more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty was in what sounds like a fender bender last night, the Post is reporting. The mayor was driving his kids in the family SUV in upper Northwest at about 7 p.m. when another driver went through a stop sign and the two cars hit each other. No injuries were reported, and no word on who was at fault. Wonder how the mayoral Smart Car would have fared. more ›

Mayor Adrian Fenty and Mayor for Life Marion Barry might need a little dose of humility with their morning tea, we think. Over the weekend we found out that Barry will once again dodge prison time for not paying his taxes for five years, and instead will face another two more years of probation. But rather than gracefully accept the ruling, the Post reports, Barry has accused U.S. prosecutors of harboring a vendetta against him and has demanded that their actions be investigated. Just as Barry justified his opposition to same-sex marriage by calling himself a "moral" politician a few weeks back, we think maybe it's time for the Ward 8 council man to not try and turn everything into a spectacle. Mayor Fenty might also want to tread a little more carefully. As we wrote earlier this morning, the Post reports that Fenty has allowed a close personal friend to chauffeur him around town in the mayoral SUV, possibly violating city regulations in the process. Is the mayor's buddy allowed to drive Fenty around? "He is if I let him," claims the mayor. We're guessing we aren't the only ones reminding the mayor today that laws aren't deemed applicable or not based on the mood of the city's chief executive. more ›

There might be some shakeups in the way that the District's government celebrates the inauguration. more ›

UPDATE: The Post has identified the hotel as the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown. more ›