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Karl Racine was raised on old school values; he’d like D.C. leaders to serve their constituents with those in mind.
His position was clear: Bypassing procurement law to award a no-bid contract to D.C. Lottery vendor Intralot so the District could launch sports betting before Virginia and Maryland was bad public ...
Numerous members of DC2021, the group of business moguls and developers who recently asked Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax relief to rescue the D.C.
D.C. Housing Authority (“DCHA”) Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Neil O. Albert purchased real estate in Washington, D.C., and North Carolina with a personal companion, Yenny P. Moya, also known ...
Viral clips of D.C. Police holding back a rabid hoard of white supremacists in the west facing tunnel on the lower level of the United State Capitol last week are horrific. The extended version—at 29 ...
Fresh off passing emergency legislation that “radically” rethinks how D.C. conducts public safety, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen increased the pressure on D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on ...
The District of Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Brenda Donald appeared to threaten retaliation against her agency’s own internal auditor last week in potential violation of the ...
When Mayor Muriel Bowser tapped Brenda Donald for Executive Director of D.C. Housing Authority (“DCHA”) in 2021, she needed someone politically astute with experience in dealing with troubled agencies ...
The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was everyone’s fault but the District’s Revelations and recriminations in the wake of the January 6 extremist attack on the United States Capitol have burned ...
The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (“Downtown BID”) has retained an outside firm to conduct an internal investigation related to President and CEO Neil Albert, amid contract concerns related ...
The D.C. Council insists on police reform, but what have they done about it? By Jeffrey Anderson More than a month has passed since the world watched in horror as a Minneapolis police officer killed ...