Archive: Mayor Fenty
Fenty Accepts Bobo's Resignation From CFSA
Sharlynn E. Bobo, the director of D.C. Child and Family Services, resigned today, in the wake of a massive backlog of cases during which a 6-month-old boy and a 5-month-old boy died. "I accepted Dr. Bobo's resignation today and would like to personally thank her for her dedication to public...
By Marcia Davis | July 16, 2008; 11:19 PM ET | Comments (5)
New Gun Regulations Announced Today
District residents will be able to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense but that right would be limited to the home and not outside it, city leaders said today, announcing new gun regulations in response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the city's handgun ban....
By Marcia Davis | July 14, 2008; 04:36 PM ET | Comments (5)
Fenty Met By Protesters Over Library-School Development
It wasn't pretty yesterday when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced the developer for a new library-school project in Tenleytown. About two dozen residents and activists opposed to the plan because they fear the loss of green space for Janney Elementary School heckled the mayor as he explained that the LCOR...
By Marcia Davis | July 11, 2008; 09:27 AM ET | Comments (9)
LCOR Chosen for Tenley Project
The District has chosen LCOR to develop the 3.6 acre Tenley Library/Janney Elementary School development site. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty made the announcement at a news conference this morning. "We've got a real opportunity to leverage this site to help pay for the cost of improving Janney Elementary, enhance the...
By Marcia Davis | July 10, 2008; 03:33 PM ET | Comments (1)
The Mayor's Friday Bad News Dump?
It's one of the oldest media-management strategies in the book: Release all controversial or bad news late Friday, when it's more likely to get lost in the weekend shuffle. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) seems to have added that strategy to his public-relations playbook lately. On June 20, a Friday,...
By David A Nakamura | July 10, 2008; 06:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
A New Gang Strategy?
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham are teaming up this morning to announce a new gang strategy. The two will be sharing their plan at the Reeves Center at 10:15 am....
By Marcia Davis | July 8, 2008; 08:24 AM ET | Comments (2)
Fenty Nominates Nickles as Attorney General
UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced his nomination of Peter J. Nickles to the attorney general post this morning. The Washington Post reported earlier this week of the mayor's plans. They were joined on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building by council members Marion Barry (D-Ward...
By Marcia Davis | June 27, 2008; 09:45 AM ET | Comments (8)
Rand Report: Health Care Funds for Urgent Care
It may not get much emphasis today, given all the focus on the Supreme Court's gun ban decision, but D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty ( D) unveiled this morning a report that outlines how the city should spend $135 million in tobacco settlement money. The independent Rand Corp., commissioned in...
By Marcia Davis | June 26, 2008; 02:19 PM ET | Email a Comment
A Busy Day in the District: Courts to Health Care
It's a big news day in the District. The city waits for the Supreme Court ruling on its gun ban case, which is expected this morning. But also, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty will be announcing the RAND recommendations on the city's health care. Millions of health care dollars at stake....
By Marcia Davis | June 26, 2008; 08:28 AM ET | Email a Comment
Michelle Fenty Expecting
First Lady Michelle Cross Fenty and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty are expecting a third child in late fall, according to a press release issued by Carrie Brooks, the mayor's spokeswoman. The Fentys already have 8-year-old twins, Andrew and Matthew. "Michelle Fenty says she is feeling great and is looking forward...
By Nikita R Stewart | June 23, 2008; 07:32 PM ET | Comments (3)
The Pace Setter
A Monday morning feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. The mayor took part in the Lawyers Have Heart 10k in Georgetown on Saturday, a race that benefits the American Heart Association. Fenty clocked in at 41 minutes, 21 seconds, a 6:40 per...
By David A Nakamura | June 16, 2008; 10:23 AM ET | Email a Comment
Fenty Releases Statement on Tim Russert's Death
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty released this statement after learning that journalist and moderator of "Meet the Press" Tim Russert was dead of a heart attack at age 58. "On behalf of the residents of the District of Columbia, I want to extend our deepest condolences to the family of Tim...
By Marcia Davis | June 14, 2008; 07:24 AM ET | Email a Comment
Moving Parts
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty was making moves yesterday, shifting positions and people like pieces on a chess board. Erik Moses was named the new chief executive of the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission. Moses had been the director of the Department of Small and Local Business Development. Fenty tapped Nicole...
By Marcia Davis | June 10, 2008; 08:30 AM ET | Email a Comment
Buff 'n' Scrub Round 2 Goes to Fenty
Two weeks ago, we told you about the pushback Mayor Fenty was getting from the business community about his effort to enlist developers for the school system's second summer of "buff and scrub." Well, the administration held a second meeting about the program today at the Warner Building at 1299...
By David A Nakamura | June 4, 2008; 02:59 PM ET | Comments (3)
New Anti-Crime Efforts
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier plan to announce new crime initiatives this morning, as officials continue to try to battle a mounting body count in the District. In February, Lanier told the District Council that violent crime was down and the city was on the right...
By Marcia Davis | June 4, 2008; 07:26 AM ET | Comments (1)
Time and Place Set for Second Buff and Scrub Meeting
Last Sunday, the Post brought you the story of Mayor Fenty's struggles to keep city business leaders on board his school reform bus. A key example focused on a meeting the administration held to sign up developers for the school system's summer buff and scrub program, designed to spruce up...
By David A Nakamura | May 29, 2008; 11:00 AM ET | Comments (3)
Fenty to Make Statement on Fort Reno Today
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, the National Parks Service and U.S. Geological Survey officials will give an update on the status of Fort Reno Park today at 3:30 and discuss its reopening to the public. The small, federally run park in Northwest Washington, was closed recently after a scientist at the...
By Marcia Davis | May 28, 2008; 01:08 PM ET | Email a Comment
Looking for Fenty? Try Calling 311
Having a hard time getting a hold of the mayor? Starting at 2:15 p.m. today, you can reach him at the 311 call center. The mayor and Janice Quintana, director of the Office of Unified Communications, will be answering calls with the center's staff as a way to mark the...
By Marcia Davis | May 28, 2008; 12:30 PM ET | Comments (3)
More Shake Up at Board of Elections; Schwartz Not Happy
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty swore in Errol R. Arthur as chairman of the District's Board of Elections and Ethics yesterday, and Council member Carol Schwartz is blasting him for it. Arthur is a partner at Arthur and Arthur, PLLC, a law practice that handles criminal, family and civil cases in...
By Marcia Davis | May 21, 2008; 02:00 PM ET | Comments (1)
Fenty Reappoints Inspector General
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has reappointed Charles J. Willoughby as the Inspector General. The office conducts audits, inspections and investigations of District of Columbia agencies and operations. The term for the inspector general is six years and is confirmed by the District Council. Former Mayor Anthony Williams first appointed Willoughby...
By Marcia Davis | May 20, 2008; 06:57 AM ET | Comments (2)
The Pace Setter
A Monday morning feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. He may have been due at a major retailers conference in Las Vegas, where he is spending today, but that didn't stop the mayor from competing in Sunday's Columbia (Md.) Triathlon, a 1.5k...
By David A Nakamura | May 19, 2008; 11:52 AM ET | Comments (1)
Judge Rejects Proposal Over Disabled Care
U.S. District Judge Ellen Huevelle today rejected a proposed agreement between the District and the Department of Justice over care of developmentally disabled people in group homes. The city had hoped the agreement would forestall continued litigation that has gone on for three decades over health care for the mentally...
By Marcia Davis | May 15, 2008; 05:17 PM ET | Email a Comment
Testing Continues at Fort Reno Park
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and health and environmental officials said this afternoon there is no "imminent health crisis" posed by the high levels of arsenic found in Fort Reno Park. Joined at a news conference by several city health officials, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service, the...
By Marcia Davis | May 15, 2008; 05:00 PM ET | Email a Comment
Mayor Williams to Honor Mayor Fenty Tonight
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and wife Michelle are scheduled to be honored at the Idealism in Action gala tonight at the Ronald Reagan Building where they'll be presented the Lifetime of Idealism Award by City Year Washington, D.C., a youth service organization. A co-chair of the event is former mayor...
By David A Nakamura | May 13, 2008; 01:25 PM ET | Email a Comment
Fenty 2006: Yes to New Library
Mayor Adrian Fenty's announcement today that the city would build a hotel at the site of the old convention center dooms any hope of replacing the aging Martin Luther King Jr. Library with a new central branch. But make no mistake--Fenty (D) had been an ardent supporter of building a...
By David A Nakamura | May 12, 2008; 02:01 PM ET | Comments (2)
Convention Center Head Resigns
Reba Pittman Walker resigned yesterday from her position as chief of the Washington Convention Center Authority. Look for more details in Sunday's Post....
By Marcia Davis | May 3, 2008; 01:12 PM ET | Email a Comment
Political Reaction to Ruling in Rawlings Shooting
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty issued the following statement regarding the decision to file no charges in the Deonte Rawlings shooting. "The death of Deonte Rawlings was a tragic loss for his family and the entire community continues to mourn for them. After an exhaustive, independent investigation, the US Attorney and...
By Marcia Davis | May 1, 2008; 02:59 PM ET | Comments (4)
Fenty on Capitol Hill
Mayor Fenty, Council Chairman Gray and CFO Gandhi are on Capitol Hill this afternoon to testify on the President's federal budget request for the District. As the Post reported in February, Bush has added an additional amount to support the reform efforts of Fenty and school Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee....
By David A Nakamura | April 30, 2008; 02:30 PM ET | Email a Comment
The Pace Setter (Midweek Bonus Edition!)
A feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. Mayor Fenty started his day at the ACLI Capital Challenge, a long-running (pun intended) tradition in which the various branches of the federal government -- executive, legislative, judicial--compete, along with the media, in team running...
By David A Nakamura | April 30, 2008; 12:14 PM ET | Email a Comment
Fenty Jokes in Courtroom
The Reliable Source sent along some other details concerning Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's jury duty yesterday. According to a tip to the RS, Fenty, who was being considered for a drug case, arrived at 8 a.m. He was put in the jury box as potential juror number 11, and was...
By Marcia Davis | April 30, 2008; 07:31 AM ET | Email a Comment
No Jury Duty for Fenty
The mayor escaped service. He was called in front of Judge Boasberg for a drug case, but was not selected to serve and left shortly after 3:30 p.m. More in tomorrow's Post....
By David A Nakamura | April 29, 2008; 04:27 PM ET | Email a Comment
Fenty Awaiting Potential Jury Duty
Mayor Fenty is in Superior Court today doing his patriotic duty--serving a summons for potential jury duty. Fenty is among a pool of candidates in Judge James Boasberg's courtroom, although he has not yet been selected to serve on a jury for a trial. We'll keep you posted....
By David A Nakamura | April 29, 2008; 12:06 PM ET | Email a Comment
Looking for Developers
Breaking News: Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced this morning that he is seeking developers to build a hotel or office complex behind the historic Lincoln Theater on U Street. The money the city makes from the development would be used to support the theater, he said....
By Marcia Davis | April 24, 2008; 11:15 AM ET | Email a Comment
Breaking News: City Wins Cab Dispute
The Associated Press is reporting the following: A judge has ruled in the city's favor in a dispute over Mayor Adrian Fenty's order for D.C. taxis to switch to time-and-distance meters for calculating fares. Fenty announced last October the city would change from the zone system to meters. But a...
By David A Nakamura | April 21, 2008; 09:57 AM ET | Email a Comment
The Pace Setter
A Monday morning feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. The Kinetic Half Ironman, held at Lake Anna State Park in Virginia, is billed as the first half-Ironman distance race of the season in the mid-Atlantic region, meaning a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile...
By David A Nakamura | April 21, 2008; 09:11 AM ET | Email a Comment
More Evidence Fenty Remains Popular
In case his 72 percent approval rating in the Post's January poll wasn't enough, the mayor just won "Best Local Hero" in the Washington City Paper's first reader poll in 20 years. Fenty beat out Marion Barry, Eleanor Holmes Norton and rocker Ian MacKaye for the honor. We're not sure...
By David A Nakamura | April 17, 2008; 12:50 PM ET | Comments (2)
The Pace Setter
A Monday morning feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. Okay, so it's Wednesday, but we just got the results of Fenty's first triathlon of the season--the Georgetown IronMed--thanks to Georgetown University Medical School student Matthew Ronan, who helped organize the event. The...
By David A Nakamura | April 16, 2008; 11:42 AM ET | Comments (2)
Fenty to Hang With Pope
Seems the mayor will be courting his newest constituent -- Pope Benedict XVI -- over the next few days. Fenty is scheduled to be with him at the White House tomorrow, attend mass at Nats Park on Thursday and then bid him farewell at Andrews Air Force Base on Friday,...
By David A Nakamura | April 15, 2008; 05:05 PM ET | Email a Comment
Countdown to the Showdown
The Washington Nationals play the Atlanta Braves at 7:35 tonight, and council members are bracing for the dance they have been doing with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) all week. Since Monday, Fenty's office has been doling out tickets to the council hours before a game. For some reason, four...
By Nikita R Stewart | April 11, 2008; 11:05 AM ET | Email a Comment
Fenty Takes the Hill
Mayor Fenty is on Capitol Hill today to talk about strategies to calm the housing market in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis. You can download his testimony in PDF format by clicking here....
By David A Nakamura | April 10, 2008; 10:41 AM ET | Email a Comment
"Johnny Business" Heads to Sacramento
John Falcicchio, adviser to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, has taken a leave to work on the mayoral campaign of former NBA all-star Kevin Johnson. Kris Deutschman, a volunteer spokeswoman for Johnson's mayoral bid in Sacramento, said Falcicchio "started maybe, what, three or four days ago." Former NBA star Kevin Johnson...
By Nikita R Stewart | April 9, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Email a Comment
A Lot of Lawyers at Lottery Hearing
You know there's a hot issue in the Wilson Building when you see these three: Fred Cooke, Scott Bolden, and a familiar face from the D.C. Council, Kevin Chavous. All three lawyers were at today's hearing before Jack Evans' Committee on Finance and Revenue. The issue: the city's lottery contract....
By Yolanda Woodlee | April 7, 2008; 05:06 PM ET | Email a Comment
The Pace Setter
A Monday morning feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. It's official: Fenty is getting faster as mayor. Last week, he set a personal record in the National Marathon. But we thought maybe that Fenty, who is a much stronger 10-miler than he...
By David A Nakamura | April 7, 2008; 06:59 AM ET | Email a Comment
Fenty, Rhee Talk Education in Memphis
Mayor Fenty didn't have any public events on his schedule yesterday, a rarity. The reason? He and school Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee traveled to Memphis to participate in Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's national conference, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death....
By David A Nakamura | April 4, 2008; 12:45 PM ET | Comments (1)
New High School Baseball Series at Nats Park
During the long and bumpy road that was the debate over the Nationals' publicly financed baseball stadium, critics of the project often asked, "What's in it for the city?" The inaugural invite. (David Nakamura) Well, D.C. Wire just learned about at least one little piece of that puzzle. We got...
By David A Nakamura | April 3, 2008; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (3)
Breaking News: Plan to End Homelessness
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced this afternoon a plan to help end chronic homelessness in the city, pledging initially to house 480 people in six months at a cost of $19.2 million....
By Marcia Davis | April 2, 2008; 03:00 PM ET | Comments (2)
Fenty's Budget Testimony (*Updated)
The D.C. Council's public hearing on Mayor Fenty's budget has begun and you can watch it live on Ch. 13 or on the council's website. *12:40 p.m.: Here's a summary just in from D.C. Wire's Nikita Stewart, who is in the chambers. Fenty testified before council members today that his...
By David A Nakamura | March 31, 2008; 12:09 PM ET | Email a Comment
The Pace Setter
A Monday morning feature in which D.C. Wire charts Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's quest for athletic glory. The 37-year-old mayor is well known for his love of running and triathloning. And all that training--and Vitamin Water--is paying off. Fenty (D) participated in the 2008 National Marathon on Saturday and, despite...
By David A Nakamura | March 31, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Email a Comment
Camera Ready
Mayor Adrian Fenty has never met a camera he doesn't love. The city's top elected leader is so fond of press attention that he holds a news conference every day. Today, though, the mayor turned the tables at an appearance at DC USA, the new mall in Columbia Heights, where...
By David A Nakamura | March 27, 2008; 02:00 PM ET | Comments (1)
The Vacant School Wish List
Recreation center? Art gallery? Charter school? Dozens turned out Monday night at Harriet Tubman Elementary school in Columbia Heights to give their ideas for what should happen with two school buildings in Ward 1 that are slated to close. Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham (D), ever eager to stay on...
By Theola Labbé | March 26, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
More On School Fundraising
We told you yesterday about the new D.C. Public Education Fund, which has been established to raise money from the private sector for Chancellor Michelle Rhee's school reform efforts. Today we caught up with the fund's executive director Sara Lasner, who explained that the fund has applied for 501c3 status...
By David A Nakamura | March 25, 2008; 02:31 PM ET | Email a Comment
When Should the Public Testify on the School Budget?
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty released his proposed 2009 budget last Thursday, and D.C. Wire has already read and analyzed every page, from the executive summary to parts 1 and 2 of the agency spending plans to the appendices. Okay, maybe not. But as D.C. Wire continues to pore over this...
By Theola Labbé | March 25, 2008; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (2)
Before He Was Mayor
At a news conference today to announce the release of the city's 2008 Summer Fun Activity Guide, Mayor Adrian Fenty, addressing a group of about 100 youth on spring break at the Fort Davis Recreation Center in Southeast, revealed that he spent a summer as a lifeguard at the public...
By David A Nakamura | March 24, 2008; 02:30 PM ET | Email a Comment
The Four Rs: Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, Raising Money
When Mayor Adrian M. Fenty took over the D.C. schools last summer, he announced plans to raise private money to help supplement the system's operating budget--much as Fenty's mentor, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I), did when he took over the schools in New York. Bloomberg, a billionaire...
By David A Nakamura | March 24, 2008; 07:05 AM ET | Comments (1)
