Tom Howell Jr.

Residency issue arises for nominee to D.C. elections board

Mayor Vincent C. Gray's pick to head the increasingly vital D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics faces an uphill route to confirmation because of his residency status, an issue that derailed another mayoral pick mere weeks ago.

September 21, 2011

D.C. Council passes tax hike

The D.C. Council approved an income-tax increase on the city's highest earners on Tuesday, after a proposal dismissed in the spring was revived during closed-door negotiations and hotly debated by council members returning from summer recess.

September 20, 2011

Term limits, council salary increases among proposed D.C. ethics reforms

A D.C. Council member is proposing a package of ethics-reform bills that would impose term limits on officeholders while raising to $170,000 the salaries of city lawmakers who are already among the most highly paid in the nation.

September 19, 2011

Gray puts a different spin on jobs for jobless

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's new job-creation effort is modeled after a program that created 13,000 jobs in Atlanta, but the initiatives are more similar in spirit than in execution.

September 18, 2011

D.C. revenue exceeds projections by $89 million

The District will finish this fiscal year with $89 million more in its coffers than its June revenue estimate indicated, according to a revised estimate released Friday.

September 16, 2011

Senate bill has no limits on D.C. program spending

A D.C. spending bill passed a Senate committee on Thursday without any amendments that would restrict local officials from spending city money on controversial social programs.

September 15, 2011

Gray urges hiring of D.C. unemployed

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray implored major universities and other area employers Thursday to fill their job vacancies with unemployed city residents as part of the District's nascent "One City-One Hire" program.

September 15, 2011

No riders attached to bill on D.C. spending

A D.C. spending bill passed the first of two hurdles this week when it emerged from a Senate subcommittee without any amendments that would restrict local officials from spending city money on controversial social programs.

September 14, 2011

D.C. spending bill advances with no new riders

A D.C. spending bill passed the first of two hurdles this week when it emerged from a Senate subcommittee without any amendments that would restrict local officials from spending city money on controversial social programs.

September 14, 2011

D.C. rights rally to coincide with King event

Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C.-rights advocates will resurrect their "D.C. Full Democracy Rally and March" in conjunction with the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, now scheduled for Oct. 16.

September 13, 2011

Barry fires back at Gray on DYRS funding

Council member Marion Barry has hit back at Mayor Vincent C. Gray for claiming he held up security enhancements at a Laurel facility with a history of escapes and violence against officers by juvenile wards of the District's juvenile justice agency.

September 13, 2011

D.C. ethics bill to address constituent services spending

D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown on Monday pledged to revisit open-ended laws that govern how city legislators can spend money from constituent service accounts as part of a sweeping ethics reform bill that he says is decades overdue and intended to diffuse mounting distrust of city government.

September 12, 2011

Barry disapproval ties up DYRS security funding

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray says Council member Marion Barry's efforts to hold up $1.5 million in funding for a trouble-plagued juvenile detention center has delayed security upgrades by "more than a month."

September 11, 2011

Gray plans to fill D.C. senior staff position vacated after voting scandal

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray says his administration will fill the deputy chief of staff position suddenly vacated by Andi Pringle, who resigned Wednesday amid reports she voted in September's D.C. primary while living in Maryland.

September 8, 2011

Gray staffer quits amid uproar over vote in D.C.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray's deputy chief of staff resigned from her post barely a week after she arrived at city hall, citing the "distraction" created by revelations she voted in September's D.C. primary despite living in Maryland.

September 7, 2011

D.C. taps $10M in reserves for quake damage

The District has followed through on plans to borrow $10 million from its contingency reserve fund to cover damage from last month's earthquake — a conservatively high estimate of what it will actually need — as it continues to assess the monetary fallout from the hurricane that passed the region days later.

September 6, 2011

Nationals fans jazzy for ‘Strassy’ (Stephen Strasburg)

The return of the Washington Nationals Stephen Strasburg has yet to reach the excitement level created when the pitching ace made his major league debut last year, but he is still on the minds - and jerseys - of baseball fans.

September 5, 2011

Gray should not have to testify in lottery case

Mayor Vincent C. Gray should not have to testify this month about the D.C. Lottery contract because it is "unduly burdensome" and his legislative activities as council chairman are shielded by law, according to papers filed by D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan.

September 4, 2011

Motion seeks to spare Gray from testifying on D.C. Lottery contract