Where have you gone, Louie Gohmert? Way back, you said that “Washington, D.C. is also the only city in the entire country that every senator and every member of Congress has a vested interest in seeing that it works properly, that water works, sewer works, and no other city in America has that.” The only reason we ask is to see if you could kinda tap on Sen. Tom Coburn’s office door and sorta ask…

Two senators, two holds on District legislation — sounds like business as usual up on Capitol Hill, doesn’t it? The Post brings news that Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) became the second Democratic senator to put a hold on the legislation that would formalize Mayor Adrian Fenty’s bid for increased control over the city’s troubled public schools. Two weeks ago, Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) used the same tactic to force the District to negotiate over the…

On Saturday D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Notron and Mayor Adrian Fenty reached a quick agreement with Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) to remove the hold the senator placed on the District schools takeover plan on Thursday. “We have a handshake agreement. That’s what old friends can do,” Norton told the Post. Cardin had said he placed the hold as a political maneuver to pressure the District to negotiate on a long-standing disagreement involving the District’s plans…

It’s rainy, it’s windy, and every day it gets colder. But it could be worse, Washington — you could be Anthony Mereos. The Silver Spring man is facing a $80,000 fee for illegally clearing trees from land he purchased for $65,000 (he denies cutting the trees down). Mereos had intended to use the land to build a home for his family. But wait! It gets worse: [Mereos’ laywer Shawn] Whittaker said the county is using…

First they went after the red-light runners. Then they went after the speeders. Now the District is set to use its increasing stock of city-wide surveillance cameras to crack down on illegal dumping, according to the Washington Times. Four cameras, each costing $6,000, will be deployed around the city to nab illegal dumpers in the act, allowing the District to more often levy fines reaching $25,000 and including the possible confiscation of the dumping offender’s…