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Last updated December 02, 2013
Essential books, General Accounting Office reports, reference
articles, studies, magazine and newspaper
articles, and reports about politics, history, and local
government.
Abbott, Carl. Political Terrain: Washington, DC., from Tidewater Town to Global
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Johnston, Allan John. Surviving Freedom: The Black Community of Washington, D.C.,
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- AIMD-97-19,
District of Columbia: Status of the Sports Arena
- T-HEHS-97-76, Foster Care: State
Efforts to Expedite Permanency Hearings and Placement Decisions
- AIMD-97-148.
District of Columbia: Status of the Proposed New Convention Center Project
- GGD-97-159BR,
District of Columbia Government: Overtime Costs Exceed Those of Neighboring Governments.
- HEHS-97-161.
District of Columbia Public Schools: Student Enrollment Count Remains Vulnerable to
Errors.
- RCED-97-162, Federal-Aid Highway
Program: Impact of the District of Columbia Emergency Highway Relief Act
- AIMD-96-42.
District of Columbia: Information on Health Care Costs.
- AIMD-96-4. Financial
Management: Implementation of the Cash Management Improvement Act.
- AIMD-96-42. District
of Columbia: Information on Health Care Costs.
- GGD-96-95. District's
Workforce: Annual Report Required by the District of Columbia Retirement Reform Act.
- T-AIMD-96-126.
District Government: Information on Its Fiscal Condition and the Authority's First Year of
Operations.
- T-AIMD-96-133.
District Government: Information on Its Fiscal Condition.
- HEHS-96-136. DC Managed
Care System for Disabled Special Needs Children -- Medicaid Managed Care: Serving the
Disabled Challenges State Programs.
- T-HEHS-96-205. Fraud
and Abuse: Providers Excluded From Medicaid Continue to Participate in Federal Health
Programs.
District Court
- Adams v. Clinton and Alexander v. Daley, Civil Action Nos. 98-1665 and
98-2187, Memorandum Opinion of Circuit Judge Merrick B. Garland and US District Judge
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Opinion of Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer concurring in part and
dissenting in part, and Memorandum and Order of Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer in PDF and
WordPerfect format
House of Representatives
House of Representatives documents can be picked up from the House Document Room, Ford
Building (Annex II), 3rd and D Streets, S.W., Room B-18, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. They can also be ordered by telephone, 202-225-3456; by mail with a
self-addressed return mailing label; by fax, 202-226-4362; or by E-mail, hdocs@hr.house.gov Hearing and Committee Prints must
be obtained from the appropriate committee. Legislation and the Congressional Record is
also available on the web at http://thomas.loc.gov.
Anselmo, Joseph C. DC Rising: While Still Behind the Suburbs, the District and Its
Technology Community Are Emerging from the Shadows and Beginning to Take Off, Washington
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Jim. Notes on the Murders of Thirty of My Neighbors, Atlantic Monthly,
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Powell, Michael. "Poor Management, Federal Rule, Undermine Services," The
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Powell, Michael. "Federal Presence in D.C. Regarded as Both an Asset and an
Albatross," The Washington Post, July 20, 1997.
Powell, Michael. "Washington Time, Space, and Money: Business as Usual at Human
Services," The Washington Post, July 20, 1997.
Powell, Michael. "D.C.: Steep Expenses, Low Quality Are the Rule," The
Washington Post, July 21, 1997.
Powell, Michael. "D.C. Council Fails in Watchdog Role," The Washington Post,
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Powell, Michael. "Funds Dont Go for Books, Boilers," The Washington
Post, July 21, 1997.
Rowan, Carl, Jr. "D.C. Confidential: The lawless lawmen of our nation's
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"Trying to Fix a Capital Where Everything Is Broken"
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New York Times, July 25, 1996.
Terry, Don and Karen DeWitt, "The Washington That Tourists Dont See," The
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Clines, Francis X., "D.C.s Wealthy Other Half Is Feeling the Pinch,
Too," The New York Times, July 26, 1996.
Holmes, Stephen A. and Karen De Witt, "The Flight of the Black Middle Class," The
New York Times, July 27, 1996.
"Washingtons Two Faces: The Nations Capital, for Richer, for
Poorer," U.S. News and World Report, February 2, 1997.
"A Well Financed Failure"
Horowitz, Sari and Valerie Strauss. "System Protects Jobs While Shortchanging
Classrooms," The Washington Post, February 16, 1997.
Horowitz, Sari and Valerie Strauss. "View from the Classroom: We Couldnt Get
Anything We Ordered," The Washington Post, February 16, 1997.
Horowitz, Sari and Valerie Strauss. "As Students Fail, U.S. Aid Goes to Waste: Funds
Are Available for Needy Children, But Programs Have Not Been Developed," The
Washington Post, February 16, 1997.
Loeb, Vernon and William Casey. "Work Force a Family Affair for Many: New
Superintendent Pursues Cronyism, Nepotism as Factors of Unknown Proportions," The
Washington Post, February 17, 1997.
Loeb, Vernon. "A Need for Continued Employment: Disbarred Lawyer Got a Temporary Job
with Lasting Implications," Washington Post, February 17, 1997.
Horowitz, Sari. "A History of Transgressions and Transfers: Some Workers Who Have Run
into Controversy Have Not Run Out of Second Chances," The Washington Post,
February 17, 1997.
Powell, Michael, and Vernon Loeb. "In Lieu of Planning, Patchwork: Students Preparing
for the Future in Buildings Baring Scars of the Past," The Washington Post,
February 18, 1997.
Powell, Michael. "Md. Counties Provides a Study in Contrasts," The Washington
Post, February 18, 1997.
Powell, Michael and Vernon Loeb. "For Reformers, Fire Code Lawsuit Brought Dismaying
Side Effects," The Washington Post, February 18, 1997.
Struck, Doug. "Special Ed System Exacts a Price in Waste, Neglect: District Spends
Millions in Lawsuits, Private Schools," The Washington Post, February 19,
1997.
Struck, Doug. "For One Law Firm, Suits Against D.C. Schools Often a Case of Easy
Money," The Washington Post, February 19, 1997.
Horowitz, Sari and Valerie Strauss. "Students Caught in a Cycle of Classroom
Failures," The Washington Post, February 20, 1997.
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- 1998 District of Columbia Budget
- 1997 District of Columbia Financial Reports
- DC Appleseed Center, Charter
Schools in the District of Columbia: Improving Systems for
Accountability, Autonomy, and Competition, April 30, 2001.
- DC Kids Count Collaborative, Every Kid Counts in the District of Columbia: 7th Annual Fact
Book, 2000.
- District of Columbia Financial Assistance and Management Authority, "Children in Crisis: A Report on
the Failure of the DC Public Schools," 1996.
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- Fuller, Stephen. Washington, D.C., Technology Industry. Washington, DC: DC Agenda,
2001. [PDF format]
- Grier, George. Washington Area
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1999.
- Heritage Foundation, School Choice
Programs, 1997, fact sheet about DC education
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Americas Capital for the 21st Century, Washington, D.C., 1997.
- National Center for
Children in Poverty, fact sheet about the District of Columbia
- OCleireacain, Carol. Bolstering D.C.s Fragile Fiscal Recovery. Brookings Institution,
Policy Brief No. 36.
- O'Cleireacain, Carol. The Orphaned
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Policy Brief No. 11
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Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 1999.
- Rivlin, Alice, Revitalizing
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- Rubin, Mark and Margery Austin Turner. Current
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Urban Institute, Metropolitan Housing and Communities, May 1999.
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Poverty, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 9, 2000.
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