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City Desk is Washington City Paper's blog about D.C. news, politics, media, the arts, and more. → Read More
Synthetic drugs have plagued D.C. for years. What took the city so long to mount a full response? → Read More
“Little Rome,” the Brookland neighborhood named for the colleges, seminaries, and monasteries surrounding Catholic University, features some of the District’s finest architecture. But since 2008, Church organizations have been profiting by developing or selling their properties. → Read More
“Little Rome,” the Brookland neighborhood named for the colleges, seminaries, and monasteries surrounding Catholic University, features some of the District’s finest architecture. But since 2008, Church organizations have been profiting by developing or selling their properties. → Read More
She’s the wife of a media mogul, a friend of the Washington Post’s Graham family. She’s a philanthropist, adviser to public officials, and conduit to private foundations and investors in what has become her life’s work. In D.C., likely no private citizen is more involved in public education than Katherine Bradley. Bradley and her husband, David Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media Company, are… → Read More
A Senate panel is investigating whether former Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano’s close allies pushed the department’s inspector general to tread lightly in its investigation of the prostitution scandal involving the U.S. Secret Service. → Read More
Investigations into the U.S. Secret Service sexual misconduct scandal have been undercut by resistance from a key Democratic senator, missteps by her Republican counterpart and nepotism allegations against an embattled inspector general. → Read More
A bipartisan bill to halt a proposed U.S. Customs and Border Protection pre-clearance facility in the United Arab Emirates is aimed at protecting domestic airlines from their foreign competitors. → Read More
A federal law banning firearms that cannot be detected by walk-through metal detectors expires in less than a month, but Congress has yet to act despite the rise of new technologies that can produce “3-D” plastic guns. → Read More
Washington, D.C., has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods, The Washington Times found in a review of records. → Read More
The District’s $220 million state-of-the-art forensics laboratory opened in October with great fanfare, but photographs of the lab’s evidence room obtained by The Washington Times and a widely distributed email exchange between the commanding officer of its Crime Scene Investigations Division and his employees paint a different picture. → Read More
Five months after the District opened a $220 million, state-of-the-art forensics laboratory hailed as an experimental transition to independent forensics testing, the crime-scene investigation unit has unraveled as a result of dysfunction and bureaucratic gridlock, according to the Fraternal Order of Police and veteran officers who process crime scenes. → Read More