| JANUARY 1997 |
| 105 | Loose | DC Options for Welfare Cover Range: Task
Force Considering Cap, Drug Tests |
| 114 |
Jeter | Welfare Rolls Down 22% in VA, MD: Two-Year Decline Outpaces
Nation(15%) |
| 114 | Goldstein | DC
Infant Death Rate Hits Record Low, but still tops US (16.6 vs 8.8(MD), 7.7(VA) |
| 117 | Loose | Health Plan Proposed for DC Working
Poor (part of welfare overhaul) |
| 122 | Locy |
Court Monitor to Review DC Medicaid Progs (so badly mngd, violates rights of
eligible) |
| 123 | Editor | DC
Initiative: Day 1221--failed plan to eliminate City's homeless |
| 123 | Vise | Barry Calls Cuts Cruel to City's Poor (Dept
Human Services) |
| 126 | Editor |
Gaming the Poor in DC--getting wise to Barry's games |
| 128 | Loeb | Getting DC Housing in Order: Court says
receiver making 'huge dent' |
| 129 |
Motnihan | Big Lie of 1996: Teenaged Birth Rates down--illegitimacy rates
up (96.8% in DC) |
| MAY, 1997 |
| 502 | Goldstein |
DC Health Blue Print Would Shut 4 Clinics, Cut Hospital's Service |
| 505 | Brown | Death Rates for Children Rise in DC--high
number of teenagers dying violently |
| 506 |
Harris | DC Asks US to Redefine Work Under New Law--include job
hunting, exclude handicapped |
| 508 | Loeb |
Efforts to Reform Foster Care System Found Wanting--US Court Monitor has 'grave
concerns' |
| 510 | O'Harrow | Child
Poverty Surges in Area--85% rise in suburbs over 4 years |
| 510 | Vobejda | Welfare Drop (20% Nationally) Attributed
to Economic Rise--except in DC, AL, HI, and CA |
| 512 |
| Most DC Doctors Managed to Renew Medical Licenses--at last
minute |
| 517 | Loose | DC Welfare
Mothers Wary of Official Effort to Track Down Fathers--might backfire |
| 522 | Powell | Budget Deal Would Cut DC Medicaid
Costs--US pay more, save DC $1B in 5 years |
| 522 |
Williams | Barry Wants More Hiring of Residents--by DC contractors |
| 522 | Jeter | Welfare Rolls (in MD) Down
29.5% since 1995--Howard County drops 47.8% |
| 523 |
| Barry's Hiring Proposal (by contractors) Denounced (by Davis) at
House Hearing |
| JUNE,
1997 |
| 604 | Loeb/Powell | DC
Foster Care Receiver to Resign (after blistering assessment of performance) |
| 605 | Editor | Jobs, Jobs, Jobs for Teens--pushing
businesses to provide jobs |
| 615 | Staff |
Judge May Appoint Receiver for DC Mental Health Services--already under court
order |
| 615 | Siegel | Hospitals
Cornered: GWU Hospital economics changing rapidly and unfavorably |
| 617 | Loeb | DC Comm Mental Health Services Ordered
into Receivership: City has fallen "woefully short" |
| 618 |
Editor | Another Day, Another Receiver--another failed Barry
promise |
| 622 | Fields | Closed
for Good: How Court Restored Dignity to Residents of "DC Village" nursing home |
| JULY, 1997 | |
| 703 | Harris | Barry Names Acting Chief as City
Medical Examiner (ignoring search panel's choice) |
| 707 |
Loeb | Immense Task Awaits Monitor of DC (Mental Health) Agency (system
broken for 22 years) |
| 711 | Bazzi | DC
Expansion of Summer Nutrition Program Praised as Nat'l Model 20,000: free lunches
daily) |
| 712 | None | Fast Action Sought
(from Council by Mayor) on ($150M) DC Medicaid Contracts (a year late) |
| 715 | Goldstein | Council Refuses to Act on DC
Medicaid Plan (too complicated, no time to review) |
| 715 |
Goldstein | Interim DC Health Chief (Sloane) Won't Get Perm. Apptmnt (too
outspoken, not team player) |
| 716 | Goldstein |
After Describing Job Frustrations, DC Health Chief (Sloane) Ordered to Vacate
Office |
| 726 | Williams | Again, DC
Council Spurns Medicaid Plan (fails for third time in special session) |
| 730 | Editor | A DC Medicaid Overhaul--long overdue, but
concerns must be settled |
| AUGUST,
1997 |
| 801 | Williams | On 4th Attempt, DC Council Approves
Medicaid Contracts |
| 813 | Harris | (National) Welfare Rolls Continue to Drop
Sharply (25%)--DC down less than 10% |
| 813 | Harris | For DC Morgue
Chief, Death is Reason for Living--significant improvements made |
| 825 | Woodlee | (Employee) Disability System in DC Ill-equipped to Prevent
Abuses--understaffed, poorly managed |
| 828 | Harris | District's Job
Training Under Fire (from Labor Dept)--$17K per trainee v $7K nationally in '95 |
| 828 | Editor | Disability Rip-Offs in DC--city history of "fat, unchecked disability payments"
|
| 829 | Havemann | Welfare Reform Still on Roll as States
Bounce It Down to Counties: lesson for DC? |
| 829 | Editor | DC's Atrocious
Job-training Ruse: $11.4M spent to place 1079 city residents in jobs |
| OCTOBER,
1997 |
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| | |
| 1001 | Pierre | Maryland Families Finding Way Off
Welfare--Study tracks recipients' status after state rules tighten |
| 1006 | Boo | Most (180)
DC Day-Care Centers Have Expired Licenses--safety threatens welfare law's
success |
| 1008 | Loeb | DC Medical Malpractice Proposals (from Rep. Taylor) Draw Fire--called
"Congressional despotism" |
| 1009 | Harris | (Court-appointed Interim) Receiver (Hamm)
Walks Off Job At Child Welfare Agency--no appointment |
| 1009 | Loeb | It Really
Didn't Hurt for Long--DC Health Director Sloane resurfaces as Congressional
candidate |
| 1010 | Boo | Barry Urges Closer Check on Day Care--wants
more inspectors |
| 1018 | Harris | Many Doubt DC Day Care Can Match Welfare
Reform: can't find care for kids of 4000 welfare moms |
| 1019 | Loeb | Reports
Detail DC Govt Failings: Health Dept: leadership vacuum; 3rd world statistics, many
vacancies |
| 1019 | Mayor Barry
ltr | Harvey Sloane (Health Commissioner) Deserved the Ax: no
leadership; rampant mgmt problems |
| 1023 | Lewis | US Atty General Reno Targets Beleaguered DC
Morgue--wants new medical examiner, oust Barry choice |
| 1024 | Gaines | AIDS
Services in DC Plead for Grant Funds;city agency blamed for delayed AIDS housing
aid |
| 1028 | Goldstein | Head of DC AIDS Agency Removed--way behind in paying bills for AIDS patient
housing |
| 1031 | Loeb | Homless Families Feel Chilly Threat--DC officials preparing to close shelters due
to Congress's cuts |
| NOVEMBER, 1997 |
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| | |
| 1103 | Havemann | Welfare Clients Already
Work, Off the Books: side income can hamper reform--lowers urge to change |
| 1103 | Staff | Benefits Contract Awarded to Lockheed Martin to give 88,000
residents food stamps automatically |
| 1104 | Staff | City Pays Up: $300,000
payment means AIDS Patients won't be evicted from AIDS shelters |
| 1108 | Editor | City Hall
and Day-Care Centers: half don't have valid licenses--gotta elect competent people who
care |
| 1121 | Horwitz | District's Acting Medical Examiner Offered Position near
Cleveland, pay $100K |
| 1125 | Strauss | DC Nursing Contracts (w/schools, hospitals)Scrutinized: DC
IG says firm overbilled city, underpaid wkrs |
| 1125 | Lipton | Fairfax County Offers 245
Welfare Recipients (free) Rides to Work where public transport limited |
| DECEMBER, 1997 |
|---|
| 1206 | Staff | Acting Medical Examiner
Germaniuk Quits to Take Job in Ohio--survived ghastly problems at DC morgue |
| 1209 | Goldstein | DC Seeks to Expand Health Care for Needy
Children--expand Medicaid to 8300 kids of working poor |
| 1219 | Wilgorern | School Budget Hearing Draws Few (3 of 9) Trustees, Much
Criticism--short notice, only 20 speakers |
| 1219 | Loose | District Says It Has Met
Welfare Reform Target of 3500 off rolls in year--but only 515 have paying jobs |
| 1222 | Editor | Child
Care (Tax) Credit--valid goal to help low income families work--but they don't pay taxes
now |
| 1222 | Escobar | Deaths Pose Continuing DC Mystery--hundreds of
'undetermined' cases muddy statistics (36/yr for 7yrs) |
| 1228 | Pierre | Trading Textbooks for
Jobs--welfare changes force many to leave college--classes aren't work--to be
fought |
| 1230 | Staff | City Shelter's Population Growing--cold snap brings more to DC
village--now hypothermia shelter |
| 1231 | Babington | MD Faulted for Passing
Up US Funds--for mental health care--too complicated--32 other states got $ |
