The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Come on, this letter is such bs. Are you telling me that the mayor will veto the bill if this amendment passes, so that there’s no curfew at all (until 11)?
People need to stop drafting these letters, which only serve as evidence that the mayor got rolled
depraved indifference is enough for “malice aforethought” and a second-degree murder charge
Me, reading the comics: Ha, Dementia Donnie, what a dope. In real life, no one could so stupidly destroy a rules-based international order.
You gotta come to our economic indicator briefings! It's a few things:
-of the 45,000 jobs, relatively few are DC residents, so our unemployment rate goes up less (there's only ~3,500 more unemployed residents YOY)
-data suggests about half of those DC residents laid off left the labor force
The hardest-hit group of people I know had anything to do with USAID.
But it seems that a lot of people lost agency or contractor jobs and took a new job that pays less and doesn’t make full use of their skills.
It’s a big loss of value to the economy. The world is worse without their good work.
Anecdotally, our little DC agency of 30 FTE has hired 3 people from the federal govt in the past year. One of them got fired while interviewing with us (literally: step out, take the call, rejoin, get our offer).
It’s hard to know what to make of the DC job figures.
There’s a huge YOY net loss of 45,000 jobs (6% of all jobs in DC). But the unemployment rate grew only a little, from 5.8 to 6.2%. Population held steady.
So I guess many people have retired, found another job, or gone to school?
I would like to thank Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) for reminding everyone that he is a reckless legislator who messes up the local DC budget that DC has balanced for over 30 years in a row, while he also votes for another trillion-dollar federal deficit that lets billionaires plunder the USA
Well, a lot of people could learn the budget from using your website. Thank you for your service.
For the second year in a row, the books’ agency budget chapters completely mess up the “Summary of Services” for the Office of Finance and Resource Management (AS0)—by describing whatever it is gets done by Statehood Initiatives (AR0).
You could be right about the error, but this is the fiscal impact statement on the BSA rather than the BSA itself. Hopefully the correct arithmetic supports the budget and financial plan appearing in volume 1 of the books…
That is exactly correct. If the tax rate decreased as benefits got cut, there would be no net impact on the budget.
Please allow me to ban the word “ecosystem,” except in cases where somebody is literally eating somebody else
We’re not clear as to the specific member of the Bishop-Henchman libertarian power couple, but safe to assume it’s a man
Who cares about a budget? In the current fiscal year (2026), MPD has an overtime budget of $32.5 million—but they spent $49.7 million on overtime in the year’s first *quarter*
The wording here is about avoiding cuts for “current” participants, which to me suggests changes to new enrollment
Agree about the medium.
I think it proposes a kind of political economy in which the local government can help the local economy, and the local economy can help the local government (both need help!)—while breaking out of the old cycle of dumb real estate deals and tax avoidance.
I think this is a very good essay about the DC economy and local government. I could quibble here and there but the main points are sound and it’s also very well timed because people should be thinking about what the next mayor should do.
You can't talk about the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army at Appomattox Court House #OTD in 1865 without also mentioning the fact that roughly 4,600 African Americans, who lived in Appomattox County gained their freedom that day. #CivilWarMemory
Cartoon of a Union soldier drinking a jug of water labeled Rebel reads in front of a burning Atlanta
Happy 161st Confederate Surrender Day to you and yours
Earlier today, @dcpolicedept.bsky.social’s Traffic Enforcement Unit and DPW impounded a vehicle with 893 outstanding tickets, totaling over $260,000 in fines!
Repeated disregard of traffic law is unacceptable. We'll continue to track down scofflaw vehicles to keep DC roadways safe.
“It’s always a bad idea to offer an opinion on stories that are unconfirmed and uncorroborated,”said the guy who previously stood behind his false claims that immigrants were eating the pets of Springfield.
Hope that clears it up!
The dude lives literally across the street from Vance (Naval Observatory)
but but but I was told that all the problems were caused by TOPA and DC’s legal process for evictions
We’re going to find out tomorrow that yesterday somebody bet heavily on Trump being removed from office
No.
Forget the war crime bit, and the religious bigotry bit.
Even from a strategic, op-sec standpoint, posting this is lunacy. They just showed that they have air defenses, and you're telegraphing the date of this nonsense?
If there was ever a time to pull the plug on a Presidency, it's right now.
maybe not the most comprehensive statement of my politics but the most fun one
