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6 Nov, 2007 1:48 am
... Yolanda Woodlee, Washington Post Staff Writer D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) withdrew his executive order to purge the majority of city
e-mails ... to return to our previous policy of retaining all District Government emails indefinitely," Fenty said in a statement. Earlier
yesterday, council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) ... the council 45 days to review any other administration recommendations on public records. Fenty uses three BlackBerrys to communicate with his top aides, residents and the council. ...
21 Aug, 2007 9:01 pm
blank">Bill of Rights. (From the blank">public domain.) Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty and his hand-picked police chief, Cathy
Lanier, have been in office for many months. Having previously served on the D.C. City Council for several years, Mayor Fenty doubtlessly knows
that demonstrators of all stripes come to the nation's capital throughout the year, and that the First Amendment protects their demonstration rights. Going ...
13 Dec, 2006 6:16 am
ABC 7 News reports: District officials are reviewing whether $45,000 in campaign donations made to Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty after he won the
November election violated city regulations. The D.C. Office of Campaign Finance says contributions can only be received after...
10 Mar, 2007 5:23 am
"D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out; Fenty Promises to Fight Appellate Court's Ruling": David Nakamura and Robert Barnes have this
front page article today in The Washington Post. The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "Dangerous Ruling: An appeals court ruling would put handguns back in D.C. homes."
Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that "Washington D.C. gun ban bites the dust; The ruling sets up a Supreme Court showdown over the scope of the 2nd ...
24 Mar, 2007 7:43 am
The Washington Post reports: D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is scheduled to meet with a top Bush administration official Monday to press for
congressional representation for the city, a goal that has grown more complicated in recent days as House...
31 Mar, 2007 6:12 am
"Fenty, Groups Rally Against Court Ruling; Leaders, Youth Activists Decry Bid to Weaken Restrictions": The Washington Post today contains an
article that begins, "Standing before about three dozen students and young adults, Ron Moten, the co-founder of the advocacy group Peaceoholics, painted a grim picture yesterday to
illustrate why he hopes to save the District ban on handguns."
9 May, 2007 6:02 am
"Appellate Judges Let Gun Ruling Stand; Fenty 'Deeply Disappointed'; District Might Defend Ban Before the Supreme Court": This article appears
today in The Washington Post. Today in The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that "District of Columbia Set Back in Fight Over Its Gun Law." And The Washington Times reports that
"Court denies D.C.'s gun appeal." My most recent earlier coverage appears at this link.
17 May, 2007 5:50 am
"Gun Ban Ruling Puts Fenty on the Spot; Going to High Court Would Be Risky": This article appears today in The Washington Post.
18 Oct, 2007 4:40 am
At Naylor Road and Alabama Ave. SE yesterday, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that the District's cab zoning system would be replaced with a
standard metered fare. Why in Southeast? Because each corner at the chosen intersection represented a different cab zone, emphasizing the zoning system's flaws. View Larger Map It
reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets lost at the corner of 1st and 1st ("Can the same street intersect with itself?"), what he fears is the "nexus of the ...
27 Mar 10:14 am
STIMULUS! D.C. STYLE: "Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is raiding the Neighborhood Investment Fund for earmarks for arts groups and other
non-neighborhood-investment purposes. 'Under the proposed budget, only $5.4 million of the $17 million will be set aside for neighborhood groups. About $1.6 million will be transferred
to the Commission on Arts and Humanities and distributed through grants of mostly $250,000 to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington National Opera, the D.C.
...
29 Jan, 2008 4:00 pm
... context, that show erotica or sexual paraphernalia, that support sex-oriented businesses, or that depict [consequently, it appears that Mayor Fenty is clamping down on erotic text, and not only on erotic images] or graphically describe sexual acts." Who knows ... material, rather than being focused
on wasted government employee websurfing time, thus implicating the First Amendment. Fenty's firings of the websurfers of erotic sites was
executed after an investigation began just last month, hasty, and ...
28 May, 2008 11:27 am
... Rhee control of the schools, for the most part abdicating their role of oversight, preferring to have Fenty sink or swim in the morass of
the DCPS. Now, one year into her tenure, ... the very fact that she is not beholden to a school bureaucracy and answers only to Fenty. Now the
City Council wants to change that by putting someone into a position of oversight. ... they don't. The City Council bought into, relucatantly in some cases, Fenty's proposal to take over the schools. Now they have some remorse ...
15 Nov, 2006 8:56 am
... schools is simply impossible. In contrast to the Hiatt editorial is this piece, also from the Post, which details the growing opposition to Fenty's plans. Incoming Board of Education President Robert C. Bobb "spoke out forcefully against a takeover last ... administration is quickly becoming a
board takeover. Interesting for a man who has his own children in private schools. Fenty has assembled a team of education consultants to
develop the takeover proposal. By the end of next month, he said, the ...
5 Jun, 2008 4:00 am
... caused by well-meaning people. That truism arrived like a sledgehammer this week, when mayor Fenty gave police chief Cathy Lanier carte
blanche to authorize ten-day ... initiative has been reviewed by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General." Mayor Fenty: Just because courts let
government actions pass Constitutional muster does ... has seen a huge number of homicides since last weekend. Unfortunately, mayor Fenty's
"neighborhood safety zone" plan adds to the violence by aiming at the heart of the Bill ...
3 Jan, 2007 2:23 pm
... 's hand for trying to take over the Los Angeles public schools. And, Mayor Fenty seems undeterred by that court's findings that the mayoral
plot "violated multiple provisions of ... takeover scheme tomorrow at the first major press conference of his term. So far, Fenty has declined
to provide any details of the plan to any but a few supporters, ... is down by 2 members to 11. So until special elections are held this spring, Fenty has a greater shot of getting a majority vote. But, a vote without a full ...
29 Nov, 2006 10:46 am
... of Washington DC heated up this past spring, then-candidate (and now-mayor) Adrian Fenty took a stance that clearly separated him from the
rest of the Democratic field-- he took a no-new- ... , and plenty of people (including Talking Taxes) said so at the time. Funny thing, though-- Fenty won the election, so now he has to live up to this promise. And it's taken ... to take half of his/her fiscal policy options off the table before the
next crisis emerges. Fenty's pledge may yet come back to haunt him.
9 May, 2007 8:02 pm
... in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools' strategic plan -- including the opening statement describing the administration's vision. .... In Fenty's document, with "DRAFT" stamped on each page, strategies to create reading and math classes for middle ... respond appropriately when problems arise"
is lifted from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg document. About 32 percent, or 8,000 words, of Fenty's document is borrowed, said John Barrie,
spokesman for iThenticate.com, a plagiarism detection system designed to ...
11 Jun, 2007 12:44 pm
... management systems, decaying buildings that have been identified, but never corrected, by one would-be reformer after another. Fenty is
expected to try a familiar quick fix: replace the current superintendent, Clifford B. Janey, and install his choice in the job, which will be renamed chancellor." Under Fenty's takeover plan, which was approved by Congress, the school board will become an advisory panel and function like a state department of ...
16 Jul, 2007 6:31 am
... 's Second Amendment. The blog will post the result as soon as it becomes available. Here is the city's press release issued early Monday: Mayor Fenty to Announce Future of Parker Gun Case Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Attorney General Linda Singer will announce
the District' ... .C. Circuit's Decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, the challenge to the District of Columbia's handgun laws. Who: Mayor Adrian M. Fenty Attorney General Linda Singer MPD Chief Cathy Lanier When: Monday, July 16, 11:00 a.m.
29 Mar, 2007 8:23 am
... cop Webb encounters within city limits (but outside the Capitol) to frisk him. That's probably the last thing D.C.'s new mayor, Adrian Fenty, and his new chief of police, Cathy Lanier, would like to see happen. I therefore recommend that Fenty or
Lanier phone Webb and ask the senator straight out whether he intends in the future to obey D.C.'s gun laws. (Figuring out whether Webb has broken these laws in the past is the ...
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