VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Attorney General Peter Nickles is lashing out at Councilman Marion Barry, accusing D.C.’s ex-mayor of race baiting in comments about city hiring practices. Barry, D-Ward 8, is raising questions about the city’s health care finance agency, which he says is excluding blacks from top jobs. At a hearing earlier this week, […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Metro experienced another near miss Wednesday morning when one Red Line train operator had to push his emergency brake to avoiding hitting another train ahead of it. The incident is ringing alarm bells for how the agency’s safety system failed to stop the trains from getting so close again, but also […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: State police say Virginia saw declines in violent crimes and other offenses in 2009. The Virginia State Police’s 2009 Crime in Virginia report says violent crimes fell by 9.7 percent compared to 2008. Motor vehicle and other property thefts and drug offenses also decreased, the report said. Juvenile arrests also declined […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Howard University has submitted a $1.1 billion plan to move its hospital and health sciences operation to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus after the facility closes next year and the District assumes control of its more than 62 acres from the federal government. University officials say the ambitious proposal […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: When Jelani Freeman came home after school one day, his mother was gone. Eight years old, he waited, realizing as the hours passed that she would not be back. She was mentally ill and in need of treatment. His father was in prison. “I just knew that was it,” he recalled. […]