Mayor Vince Gray hosted his first youth town hall Saturday at the THEARC Theater in Ward 8, and about 50 young District residents turned out to vent their frustrations with what they said was a lack of summer jobs. The meeting kicked off a series of monthly meetings the mayor has planned citywide to hear from D.C. residents 21-years-old and younger. more ›

DC Police are investigating allegations of sexual abuse in the District's summer youth employment program. Two female participants in the program claim they were sexually assaulted on their job sites. more ›

WJLA culls this remarkable detail from today's double shooting in Columbia Heights: the argument between two youths that precipitated the shooting began at an orientation for the mayor's Summer Youth Jobs Program. Ward 1's Jim Graham confirmed that police confiscated a revolver and a set of brass knuckles at the orientation, attended by some 2,500 summer jobbers, at the Washington Convention Center earlier today, and that this incident appears to have stemmed from that earlier scuffle. more ›

Mayor Adrian Fenty has been in office for a little over 20 months now. Almost all of the criticism leveled against him since he became mayor have been about his style of governing. He doesn't consult enough people when selecting key members of his administration (Michelle Rhee). He moves too quickly to fire city employees when something goes wrong (the Banita Jacks case). He allows his closest advisers to run roughshod over certain agencies (the Peter Nickles/Linda Singer switcheroo). Despite those criticisms, Fenty has been able to hang on to his image as an effective reformer who is focused on improving the city's most troubled areas, like the school system. If anything, concerns about Fenty's leadership style have only lent themselves to bolstering that image. But yesterday's D.C. Council hearing on what went wrong with this year's summer youth jobs program showed for the first time how Fenty's style can lead to substantive problems. more ›