The landlord “realized it’s a pillar of the community,” says Lashon Andrews, who’s managed the rink for the past three years.

It took two years of a steady drumbeat of complaints about the squalor at four buildings in Congress Heights for the city to step.

Photo by KCIvey The Washington Times just keeps hammering away at D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray. After reporting last month that Gray had some unusual repair work done on his Hillcrest home by mega-developer William C. Smith & Co., a company with a long list of city contracts that does not normally do such small jobs, today there’s this addition: Gray voted in July to award an $86 million contract to Smith & Co….

Photo by KCIvey Tom already told you about Tim Craig’s story in today’s Washington Post, which outlines how D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray used council stationery to solicit a $20,000 contribution from Comcast to help pay for Democratic Party activities at last year’s national convention. But potentially even worse news for Gray also came today in the form of this story by Washington Times reporter Jeffrey Anderson, which alleges that some questionable work was…