That silver Jaguar with the jack under it outside the Wilson Building belongs to none other than our mayor-for-life. It’s hardly the first of Marion Barry’s auto woes.

D.C. Councilmember Vincent Orange made his case in a Washington Post op-ed that the District needs a full-time council, proposing the Full-Time Employment for Council Members Charter Amendment Act of 2011. Orange argues that it’s nearly impossible for District residents to accept that outside employment doesn’t carry with it “conflicts of interest, unethical behavior, corruption and divided loyalties.”

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.

DeBonis at the City Paper and DeBonis at the Post. When the Post fished Mike DeBonis from the City Paper last month, the question on everyone’s mind was how the city’s paper of record would use the venerated Loose Lips columnist as part of its team of local reporters. Today we have an answer. The Post has rolled out a local politics blog for DeBonis, aptly titled, well, “DeBonis.” And much like his two-year…

In the week since Alice Swanson was tragically killed riding her bike through Dupont Circle, there has been the usual back-and-forth between aggravated cyclists and aggrieved drivers. Cyclists accuse drivers of being two-ton road menaces, while drivers fire back by relaying long-worn tales of cyclists recklessly flying through red lights. But in recent days cyclists have started defending their trade, looking to present their selective ignorance of traffic laws as perfectly justifiable. First up was…

Big news from the Washington Post: D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer has resigned after less than a year on the job. Singer tendered her resignation this morning, having reportedly been frustrated for months with her role in the Fenty administration. Fenty has been relying more heavily on General Counsel Peter Nickles, whom the mayor has apparently now named as the interim attorney general. The timing of Singer’s departure, just months before Supreme Court arguments are…

Thanks to Mike DeBonis over at City Desk, today we find that the District’s official website has been revamped. The site — dc.gov — is now less cluttered, and as DeBonis notes, no longer boasts the smiling mug of the mayor in the upper left-hand corner. Unfortunately, the same online care has not extended to all branches of local government — the official website for the D.C. Council still looks like something that was put…

Via Editor & Publisher, the Washington City Paper, along with the Chicago Reader, which the City Paper owns, has been sold to Atlanta-based company Creative Loafing, publisher of four other alternative weeklies in Atlanta, Tampa, Sarasota, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C. The City Paper name will remain in place, despite the other four papers all carrying the “Creative Loafing” name. In a post to the City Paper’s staff blog, City Desk, Senior Editor Mike DeBonis said…

Since they were apparently sick of all the best scoops going to the Post, the folks at the City Paper have been nice enough to grant us a little nugget of information — Mike DeBonis, currently Senior Editor at the alt-weekly, will become the newest Loose Lips columnists. As you may recall, in late June James Jones stepped down as author of the vital local politics column, choosing to move on to a stint at…

>> If you’re in the market for a Crown Victoria, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has a few to sell. [WTOP] >>It looks like Paul Wolfowitz might finally soon be gone from the World Bank. But President Bush isn’t about to let his departure spoil an otherwise solid 12-year run during which the bank’s president has had the word “wolf” somewhere in their name. Obvious replacements are Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Wolfgang Puck…