Loose Lips is Washington City Paper‘s flagship political column, covering all things D.C. politics. Here you will find stories about the D.C. Council, local politicians, the mayor, attorney general, ANCs, elections, government agencies, and more.
D.C.’s Inspector General is Investigating a Troubled Agency’s Contract with Former City Administrator Robert Bobb
It’s the latest bit of turmoil for the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, following employee complaints about its former director.
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A single bettor raked in big money by taking advantage of the city’s beleaguered sports betting system.
Pinto Is Reviving an Old Push for Warrantless Searches. Some Fear It Will Kick-start a ‘Free-for-All’ of Police Harassment.
With violence on the rise in D.C., a popular moderate politician proposed legislation allowing for warrantless searches of formerly incarcerated people in a bid to get more illegal guns off the street. That sentence could just as easily describe Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2015 or Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto today. Plainly, history has a…
A Major Criminal Justice Reform Law Forced Police to Collect More Data. But the D.C. Auditor Says No One’s Doing Much With It.
D.C.’s signature criminal justice reform law of the past decade has made some important changes in reducing some types of discriminatory arrests and pushing police to collect more data, but it has still failed to realize its full potential, according to a new report from D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson. In a review released Thursday, Patterson…
Trayon White Says He’ll Run Again in Ward 8. Can Anyone Beat Him?
It took Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White all of 30 seconds during a rare appearance on WAMU 88.5’s The Politics Hour last month to completely scramble the state of play in D.C. politics. After months of radio silence about his political future (and a resulting surge in speculation among politicos that he might opt against…
Loose Lips Links, Sept. 8
A Trio of Bowser’s Top Officials, Including DDOT Director Everett Lott, Are Leaving Government
Everett Lott, Kristi Whitfield, and Elliot Tommingo will leave Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration and pursue roles outside the D.C. government.
Neighbors and Colleagues Accuse Ward 2 ANC Joel Causey, Recently Exposed as a Registered Sex Offender, of Years of Bullying Behavior
“This is complete bullshit,” Joel Causey declared curtly as a roughly four-hour-long meeting of his Advisory Neighborhood Commission neared its end on July 26. Causey, who represents a portion of the West End as the commissioner for ANC 2A06, had just come out on the losing end of a contentious vote, as the commission debated…
D.C.’s Efforts to Take Back Control of Parole from the Feds Are ’As Good as Dead‘
Around this time a year ago, District leaders and activists harbored a faint but fading hope that the city would someday take back control of its parole system from the federal government. These days, that hope has been snuffed out. Loose Lips hears that momentum behind this effort has vanished in recent months due to…
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