| AUGUST, 1997 |
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| 810 | Abramowitz | Low Bidder Is Denied WSSC Contract; Chairman wants to know why
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| 821 | Meyer | WSSC Again Blocks Lowest Bidder for Sludge
Contract--political favoritism? |
| 822 | Harris | DC Equipment
Woes Delay Trash Pickup, Street Cleaning: 2 of 34 sweepers, 27 of 40 trucks work
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| 823 | Montgomery | DC Can Shut Down ("potentially
noxious") (300-ton) Trash Transfer Station in Ward 5--residents happy |
| 826 | Makinen | A Home of One's Own--DC Habitat for Humanity helping build houses for 34
families-in SE |
| 827 | Loeb/Powell | A Critical DC Agency (DC Consumer/Reg
Affairs) (in trouble)--regs unenforced, fees uncollected |
| 827 | Harris | At Regulatory
Agency, 'An Attitude of Terror'--efficiency crackdown has workers fearing for jobs
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| SEPTEMBER, 1997 | |
| 905 | Cohn | Some DC
Water Authority Workers (Distrust city water) Buy Bottled Water--for their offices |
| 906 | Tapscott | Area Leaders Want Funding Before Taking Wilson Bridge:
House wants jurisdictions to compete for $ |
| 909 | Powell | Council Approves Two
Barry Appointees to Troubled Agencies (DCandRA and Dept Public Works) |
| 922 | Reid | DC
Officials Search for Answers to Local Transit Problems in San Diego Tax Plan--locals
balking |
| 926 | Reid | Metro Aims to Increase Ridership by adding bus routes, parking
spaces at stations |
| 928 | Editor | Bus Sense--agrees Metro must extend bus routes, services, and
"rattletrap" buses |
| OCTOBER, 1997 |
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| 1004 | Editor | Sweeping Changes in Public Works--correct to
remove agency heads over license renewal |
| 1009 | Havemann | House
Resolves Section 8 Low-Income Housing Dispute--averts massive foreclosures
nationally |
| 1011 | Gaines | Weathering Disrepair in DC
Apartments--extensive water damage at 150-unit Hopkins Apts in SE |
| 1012 | Moore | DC
Prisoners, Safe and Secure in Ohio--says DC's director of Dept of Corrections |
| 1012 | Powell et al | Problems in DC Police Dept Festered for 20 Years--mayoral interference, poor $
controls, hiring, mgmt |
| 1012 | Editor | The Tab for Getting There--needed metro area
transportation solutions and $ must be regional |
| 1013 | Editor | (Public)
Housing Repairs:--barely staying even 4.3 M units, $30B annually, 3rd biggest fed aid to
poor |
| 1013 | Cohn | DC Water Authority Mends Pipes, Public Trust--new outsider gen'l mgr/staff
doing well--much remains |
| 1016 | Loeb | HUD Freezes Development Funds to DC--based on
$40M in dubious loans and grants by DC |
| 1019 | Loeb | Reports
Detail DC Govt Failings: Dept Public Wks has myriad of systemic weakness, no
technology |
| 1023 | Staff | Del Norton, Churches (Wash Interfaith Network)
Pursue (350) Town House Plan on 25-acres in SW |
| 1028 | Loeb | Public
Housing Proposal Would Bar Criminals--HUD reg changes allow more screening--favor
workers |
| NOVEMBER, 1997 |
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| 1102 | Editor | Housing Squeeze: bills to
reduce fed housing assistance written badly to relax 'poorest-first' policies |
| 1103 | Havemann | Facing Criticism, HUD Withdraws Initiative to Reunite
Fathers with Families: called costly, wrongheaded |
| 1114 | Reid | Safety Effort to Cost Metro
$15M--adding bumpy tiles for blind at 92 stations--need federal approval |
| 1114 | Pierre | PG
Complex Faces Closure--Suitland apartments in troubled neighborhood called unsafe--like war
zone |
| 1117 | Montgomery | MCI Center, Metro Station Stage Debut for
Two--$200M, 4-yr project complete downtown DC |
| 1120 | Strauss | Howard U Officials Building
Goodwill--to fix up, offer its LeDroit Pk housing to NW DC--after yrs of neglect |
| 1121 | Lipton | Fairfax's Revitalization Plan Builds on Individual Repairs:
County can force repairs by owners--or else |
| 1121 | Reid | Metro Approves New
Safeguards for Blind--bumpy tiles to be installed starting in winter. |
| DECEMBER, 1997 |
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| 1202 | Fehr | DC, Utilities Reach Accord on
(Permanent) Road Repairs: 8000 unpatched "utility cuts" add to potholes |
| 1205 | Cohn | Water
Authority Proposes Another 5% DC Rate Hike--over 42% increase earlier in year |
| 1207 | Lipton | Landlords Leave Low-Income Tenants Pinched: pay off
mortgage early avoid Fed low-income reqmt |
| 1209 | Staff | Metro Finishes Building
Georgia Avenue/New Hapshire (Petworth) Station--cost $62M |
| 1209 | Perez-Rivas | Montgomery Acts to Reform Housing Agency--accused
of mismanaging rental assistance |
| 1210 | Lipton | Fairfax in Dispute with State
over Road Money--VA DoT says county gotta repay federal loan |
| 1213 | Allen | VA
Housing Official's Retirement Deal Draws Fire--$400K for 2 years in new job |
| 1216 | Staff | Petworth
Neighborhood to get $5M for Streets--Councilman Brazil Suspends Work on Regulatory
Bill |
| 1218 | Fehr | DC $1 Billion Short on Funds Needed ($2.6B tot) to Fix Streets
over 6 years, says DoT report |
| 1219 | Powell | DC Water Workers Accused
of Corruption: private jobs allegedly done on City time--prior beefs ignored |
| 1219 | Powell | Workweek Without Much Work--reporters trail two water
meter/main crews, find little work, lax oversight |
| 1220 | Editor | Soaking DC Taxpayers--blasts
WASA daylight moonlighting, mocks Barry 's praise of DC workers |
| 1221 | Thomas-Lester | Metro Enjoys the Ride to, from MCI Arena--foresees
$300K windfall in 6 mos--well over 50% using it |
| 1226 | Editor | Don't Let Metro Fall
Apart--'maintenance shortfall' serious--will region work together or play ostrich? |
| 1230 | Reid | Metro
Workers Flood Hot Line on Misconduct--urged by Mgr: will spend $50K for extra
investigators |
