To allow D.C. youths aged 22-24 to be included in the program.

A Barry campaign pin from the 1980s. Photo by allison_dc. During a D.C. Council meeting Monday, Ward 8 Councilmember and Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry criticized Mayor Vincent Gray for reducing funding for the D.C. summer jobs program. The Summer Youth Employment Program, which provides summer employment opportunities for D.C. youth, was Barry’s signature program during his mayoral tenure in the 1980s, and something he’s been long fighting to keep relevant throughout his political career in…

Mayor Vince Gray hosted his first youth town hall Saturday at the THEARC Theater in Ward 8, and about 50 young District residents turned out to vent their frustrations with what they said was a lack of summer jobs. The meeting kicked off a series of monthly meetings the mayor has planned citywide to hear from D.C. residents 21-years-old and younger.

DC Police are investigating allegations of sexual abuse in the District’s summer youth employment program. Two female participants in the program claim they were sexually assaulted on their job sites.

Photo of the crime scene by Jeff Martin WJLA culls this remarkable detail from today’s double shooting in Columbia Heights: the argument between two youths that precipitated the shooting began at an orientation for the mayor’s Summer Youth Jobs Program. Ward 1’s Jim Graham confirmed that police confiscated a revolver and a set of brass knuckles at the orientation, attended by some 2,500 summer jobbers, at the Washington Convention Center earlier today, and that…

Mayor Adrian Fenty has been in office for a little over 20 months now. Almost all of the criticism leveled against him since he became mayor have been about his style of governing. He doesn’t consult enough people when selecting key members of his administration (Michelle Rhee). He moves too quickly to fire city employees when something goes wrong (the Banita Jacks case). He allows his closest advisers to run roughshod over certain agencies (the…