Shaw Blogosphere Review

"Over the past several months there has been a small blogging renaissance in Shaw...The result of so many civic-oriented blogs has been an unprecedented online attention to the local ANC. "
The Goodspeed Update
January 19, 2007

Not my problem, says District chief financial officer

"A District government agency failed to collect as much as $40 million it could have received from the federal government for Medicaid services that it provided. Another agency requested $17 million from the feds for undocumented reimbursements, apparently to camouflage its overspending. Yet another agency overspent its approved budget by $18 million, perhaps violating the federal Anti-Deficiency Act."
by Jonetta Rose Barras
The Examiner
Feb 8, 2007

D.C. police fight high turnover

"More than 5 percent of its 3,800 officers have left the Metropolitan Police Department in the last two years...
Former MPD officer Ed Farris said the breaking point for him came last year, when he was accused of using excessive force by a girl who was injured in the crash of a stolen car. An investigation found no wrongdoing, Farris said, but he was punished anyway because he was accused of filing improper paperwork.
"That was the final straw,” Farris said. He left and received a $15,000 pay raise to become a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security."
by Scott McCabe
The Examiner
Feb 6, 2007