You’ve got an important choice to make: Bernie Sanders or the son of a drug kingpin.
Michelle Rhee may have left D.C. over two years ago, but her legacy is still being felt here.
In an Examiner column yesterday, writer Harry Jaffe made quite the claim about Mayor Vince Gray’s intentions for “One City“.
The Recorder of Deeds building at 515 D Street NW has been a popular topic of late. This week, at least one columnist and one blogger revisited D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans’ suggestion that the city sell several of its property holdings to cash in on strong real estate prices, and the Recorder of Deeds building had been mentioned as a possible candidate. Last week, the D.C. Preservation League came before ANC 6C seeking support for landmark designation for the building. The fate of the structure remains uncertain.
There’s little doubt that the District government is large and occupies plenty of space. But what to do with that space isn’t as simple as one columnist would have you believe.
Examiner columnist Harry Jaffe wrote a column late last week in which he wrote of the pressures presumptive Mayor-elect Vince Gray will face from the many coalitions, groups and unions that endorsed him.
Photo by gerdaindc As the battle over gay marriage in the District heats up — the Washington Blade reports today that D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At Large) may introduce a bill before the end of the month — a number of politics watchers have warned of political tension and conflict that may ensue. In the Examiner today, longtime local politics watcher Harry Jaffe argues that Catania’s move may provoke what he terms a…
Sure, Harriette Walters might have stolen upwards of $44 million from the District’s coffers, but at least she wasn’t stealing directly from low-income school children. According to a WTOP report this morning, District officials have arrested and charged a city official with submitting false expense reports totaling $11,385 for big bills at local restaurants and strip clubs. Emerson Crawley, a program manager at After School for All at Shaw Junior High School, allegedly spent the…
The thinly veiled sexism oozing out of today’s Examiner column by veteran local politics observer Harry Jaffe is hard enough to take, but to whomever thought up this gem of a headline, be they copy editor or author, DCist salutes your willingness to go boldly where no human beings in the 21st century were thought to be capable of going anymore. Yes, if the recent Office of Tax and Revenue scandal has taught us…
Via Wonkette, we get this mind-blowingly angry letter to Examiner columnist Harry Jaffe (text doc) from Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry’s chief of staff, Keith Andrew Perry. As you’ll recall, Jaffe published a column last week wondering why Barry couldn’t have used a rather expensive collection of watches and cuff links, which were recently stolen from his home, to pay some of his tax burden in the years when he was known not to…
