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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 ...
6 Nov, 2007 1:48 am
... By 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) ... 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 hand- ...
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...
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 ...
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...
28 May, 2008 11:27 am
... but she does have a role in the DC public schools. Gist reports to Mayor Adrian Fenty, but it
looks like she doesn't have much in the way of ... 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. ...
29 Jan, 2008 4:00 pm
... are being spent ferreting out employees wasting worktime surfing erotic websites. Last week, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty very publicly announced the firing of nine government employees found to have heavily visited "pornographic" websites, ... 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 if ...
15 Nov, 2006 8:56 am
... here, and here. Additionally, The Washington Post has been closely following Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty's plans for a possible takeover in Washington, D.C. ... 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 ... instead of the nine-member school
board. While BoardBuzz doesn't doubt Fenty's sincerity or tenacity in wanting to improve schools, a school board takeover may ...
5 Jun, 2008 4:00 am
... of Rights (From blank">public domain.) Giddiness seemed to run wide over Adrian Fenty's
ascension to the District of Columbia mayoral throne two years ago at ... 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 ... 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
It seems newly sworn-in D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty isn't intimidated by a recent Superior Court ruling
in California that slapped Mayor Villaraigosa'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 the ... his 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, ...
8 May, 2007 10:31 am
UPDATE 8:30 p.m. District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. Fenty told reporters on Tuesday that an appeal
to the Supreme Court is one option being considered as the city seeks to regain full authority to ... "life or death" matter, they are expected to challenge the panel decision in the
Supreme Court. Such an appeal almost certainly would not be reviewed until next Term. (D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is expected to make a statement later Tuesday.) A grant would appear to be quite likely, because there is a ...
29 Nov, 2006 10:46 am
... Mayor 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- ... 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
... a massive blueprint for fixing schools -- and two months later it's discovered to be a work of mass plagiarism: [Mayor Adrian]
Fenty's 31-page document is a blueprint of his plans to improve students' academic performance. It contains ... to 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 help non- ...
11 Jun, 2007 12:44 pm
... and without an independent state education agency." But tomorrow, the school system will start writing a new chapter as Mayor Adrian
Fenty (D) assumes control of the schools and promises "to fix abysmal test scores, dysfunctional management systems, decaying ... 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 ...
29 Mar, 2007 8:23 am
... Webb's evasiveness constitutes probable cause, entitling the next D.C. 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. ( ...
13 Jun, 2007 2:28 pm
... BoardBuzz for being agog again ... but we find it soooo interesting that Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has hand-picked a 37-year-old neophyte to lead one of the most challenged and problem-plagued school districts in the country. The mayor, a 30-something
himself, justified the ... has his fingerprints all over the D.C. schools takeover. With all the time he spends advising Fenty, BoardBuzz does
wonder how he finds time to run the NYC schools. Fascinating. As the former ...
13 Mar, 2008 6:26 am
... officers to come into their homes and get the weapons, reports the Washington Post. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced yesterday the Safe Homes Initiative, aimed at parents and guardians who know or suspect that their children or
other relatives have guns. Police ... 'But amnesty means amnesty. We're trying to get guns and drugs off the street.' Fenty and Lanier
announced the plan as part of a new strategy to deal with the prevalence of firearms in a city ...
19 Jun, 2008 3:43 pm
... . Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty; and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence join CDF in calling for reasonable gun restrictions that protect children and communities. "Imagine a
tragedy like the Virginia Tech shooting occurring ... of gun violence affecting so many children and families across the country," said Mayor Fenty. "The District's handgun laws have saved countless lives. We need to protect our ...
24 Jul, 2008 9:30 pm
... such time as these pay plans are finalized--thereby preventing the last minute bumping at schools this summer. It also tells the City Council that they need to stick by their word
to let Rhee and Mayor Adrian Fenty get on with the business of making the schools better. It dares
the City Council to repeal the law and if they do Rhee and Fenty will jump all over them as being anti-school improvement and in favor of the
old way of doing things that does not help ...
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