Speaking to the Daily Caller at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Anacostia Health Center on Monday, D.C. Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry reportedly said that when it comes to another potential stimulus package, "Whatever the President wants is what we ought to do."
The Health Center was paid in part with money from the 2009 Recovery Act.
Barry continued by reportedly saying, "We need more stimulus, so if the President wants more, he ought to get more."
From Doxie McCoy: Mayor Vincent C. Gray and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Assistant Secretary Mercedes Márquez announced a collaborative partnership that will provide technical assistance to D.C. government agencies as they implement an improvement plan for grant administration. The plan results from an assessment that HUD conducted of the District’s granting programs.
From Robert Marus: Mayor Vincent C. Gray joined leaders from the government, private, philanthropic and non-profit sectors today in unveiling Raise DC, the District’s comprehensive new cradle-to-career initiative. The effort, which lays out a set of measurable outcomes and targets to ensure that all District youth are career-ready by age 24, joins a national movement of cities working to bring together a cross-sector group of leaders organized around a set of common goals and committed to using data to drive improvements.
Today, DC Council Chair Kwame Brown released the following statement after Mayor Vincent C. Gray released his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal:
“This morning, the Mayor presented his budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 to the Council. Over the coming weeks, we will analyze his proposal carefully, program by program, to determine its impact on the residents and businesses of the District of Columbia.
From Valerie Scott: District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan announced today that the provisions outlined in a 2010 settlement agreement the District reached with property owners and tenants at the Marbury Plaza apartment building in the 2300 block of Good Hope Road, S.E., have been satisfied.
Yesterday, Councilmember Mary Cheh, Chair Pro Tempore of the Council of the District of Columbia, issued the following statement on the charges brought against Councilmember Harry “Tommy” Thomas, Jr.:
