Five D.C. agencies that are part of a pilot program to grade the work that they do have improved over the summer, notably the D.C. Department of Transportation.

How well are D.C. agencies serving you? Five of them have been graded on their performance over the last two months – and they better improve if they ever want to get dessert again.

Another day, another investigation into potential fraud inside a city agency which has led to the termination of another city employee. This time around, it’s the Department of Employment Services, which has fired interim associate director of unemployment compensation Gaby Fraser amid a D.C. Inspector General investigation into possible fraud.

Bryan Sivak, who took over the city’s troubled Office of the Chief Technology Officer in 2009 and returned it to respectability before emotionally leaving office last December, has accepted a job as Maryland’s first Chief Innovation Officer.

Were you planning on spending your Presidents Day getting a business license at the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, applying for a permit at the Department of Transportation, or complaining to the Department of Public Works about your crappy trash can? Even if it wasn’t a federal holiday, you’d have to put most of those plans on hold — most government workers, Mayor Vince Gray included, are on furlough today, one of four unpaid…

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…