“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.
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.
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.
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.