Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) is stuck in Rome and needs your help! Or is she?

No, Gmail and Yahoo! won’t do any longer. Members and staff of the D.C. Council were told yesterday that come March, they won’t be allowed to use their private email accounts to conduct public business any longer.

A D.C. legislator wants to pass a law specifying that local police have to get a warrant to search private emails and electronic communications.

The Cleveland Park listserv is the biggest of its kind in the city, and it just turned 13. We asked co-creator and moderator Bill Adler what he loves and hates about his lively listserv.

It seems that the “other other woman” contacted her FBI friend when she got “harassing” emails from Petraeus’ biographer, setting in motion Petraeus’ downfall.

Yesterday, four-star general David Petraeus resigned from his position as director of the CIA, citing a serious indiscretion, “After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.” Now it turns out that the other woman was his biographer, Paula Broadwell, and an FBI investigation had found evidence of the affair. Further, Broadwell may have tried to hack into his email! The Wasnington Post reports, “The affair…

The D.C. Open Government Coalition has sued the D.C. Council over legislators’ practice of using personal email accounts for official business.

Yesterday afternoon, the D.C. Council was prepared to vote on an amendment that would have legislated how much Uber can charge. Eighteen hours and tens of thousands of emails later, the measure was shelved.

Mayor Vince Gray today signed a mayoral order strongly discouraging city employees from using private email accounts to conduct official city business.

No matter how much you love that new Gmail interface or the gas station-bought disposable cell phone, they have no place in Mayor Vince Gray’s administration. Or so he claims.