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Mar 27, 2017

Bowser Creates Task Force, Makes Media Rounds On Missing Teens

“We have no particular issue of children leaving home in the District of Columbia any more than any other jurisdiction. The difference is we’re telling people about it,” the mayor said on MSNBC on Sunday.

Apr 18, 2016

[UPDATE] Activists Say Pot Club Ban Would Roll Back Medical Marijuana Rights

The permanent ban is set for a final vote tomorrow.

Feb 02, 2016

[UPDATED] No Permanent Ban Yet: D.C. Council Creates Task Force To Study Pot Clubs

The task force was created as an amendment to a temporary ban on pot clubs.

Feb 28, 2014

Gray Will Sign Bill To Put Power Lines Underground

On Monday, Mayor Gray will sign a new bill into law that will put major power lines underground, hopefully preventing a repeat of summer 2012.

May 15, 2013

Task Force Proposes $1 Billion Plan to Bury D.C.’s Power Lines, $825 Million to Be Paid By Pepco Customers

A District government task force proposed a plan today to move outage-prone power lines underground in hopes of preventing extended blackouts like the one that followed last year’s derecho storm.

Jan 30, 2013

Flooding Task Force Report Finds That Bloomingdale Just Wasn’t Very Lucky Last Year

What caused all that flooding in Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park last year? A task force reports that it was a combination of old sewer lines and freakishly bad weather.

Dec 19, 2012

Obama Tasks Biden and Other Officials to Come Up With Gun Control Legislation After Connecticut Shootings

President Obama said he is impaneling a group of cabinet officials and outside advisers to come up with a list of gun control proposals that he said he would like to begin pushing early next year.

Oct 18, 2012

Gray Announces Task Force to Deal With Streetcar’s Future

The District government’s newest special panel will deal with the financing and governance of the planned streetcar system.

Oct 18, 2012

D.C. Legislators Want to Ease Regulations on Pop-Up Businesses, Promote Creative Use of Industrial Land

Two D.C. legislators want to make it easier for pop-up retailers and restaurateurs to set up shop and use industrial land for their purposes.

Oct 08, 2012

FBI Creates Task Force to Deal With National Laser Epidemic

The FBI says America is suffering from an unchecked surge of laser attacks on airplanes, possibly caused by stupid kids who get their hands on laser pointers.

 
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