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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.
