“Asking a little something out of people that are weathering this so well … is the right thing to do,” Councilmember Charles Allen tells DCist.

DeWitt, an Army veteran, has served as the CFO of Phoenix, Ariz. from March 2009 until the present, and first entered that city’s government in 1989 as a resource specialist in the Water Services Department. He was one of the candidates selected by a committee led by former Mayor Anthony Williams and former Office of Management and Budget director Alice Rivlin for Gray to chose from.

There’s more and more bad news coming out of the office of the D.C. Chief Financial Officer.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer today announced that it will put forward a proposal to award the contract to operate the D.C. Lottery to Intralot, an international gaming management company. The contract is for an initial five-year period, and must be approved by the D.C. Council. The lottery contract has been an extremely sticky issue for the last year. Lottery Technology Enterprises, the company that’s been running the D.C. Lottery for over…

A day after the Washington Post put a number as high as $2.46 million on the amount of money that was stolen from the Office of Tax and Revenue in 1999, the last year that current D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi was the head of the office, at least two D.C. Council members are starting to test the waters by suggesting that Gandhi ought to resign. At-large member Kwame Brown and Ward 1 Council…

Add one more major D.C. government corruption scandal to the list. NBC4 is reporting that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington is set to announce a major public corruption investigation involving District city workers and the theft of about $16 million in property tax money. The Washington Post has the details on the indictments, which accuse two D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue employees — Harriette Walters and Diane Gustus — of fabricating tax refund…

One of those longstanding D.C. arguments may be finally coming to a resolution, and you can feel the excitement in the air this morning, Washington. No, it’s not the handgun ban, or taxicab meters, or anything to do with voting rights — but there sure are a lot of longstanding arguments in this town, now that we mention it. Rather, metro riders should keep their eyes peeled for two railcars that will soon be sporting…

Batten down the hatches, Washington. Proving that no good spell of weather goes unpunished, we’ve now got some major storms headed our way. Two separate storm lines, to be precise, are barreling down on the metro area as we speak, the first having just begun, and the second, more powerful system, expected between noon and 5 p.m. With winds at 30 mph, we’d suggest upgrading your umbrella to something more than cheap and crappy. District…

Well, the swim may have been cancelled due to the nastiness in the Potomac River, but otherwise the inaugural Nation’s Triathlon went off without a hitch. Well, spare the road closures that snared Saturday morning traffic by the National Mall, that is. And what they say is true — Adrian Fenty really does run triathlons, and he’s good. Gandhi to Keep Job: Phew! Natwar Gandhi, the District’s Chief Financial Officer, must be breathing a…

Right around now, most District households should have their handy 2006 Voters Guide, the booklet running through the details of the upcoming September 12 primary and featuring short vignettes on all the candidates on the ballot. More importantly, though, the booklets each have a specific notation listing a precinct number that track to the polling place each registered voter is to visit to cast their ballot. Well, kind of. It seems that the company contracted…