Some news stories from the past week involving Chairman Mendelson:

Surge in Deadly Violence is Dictating the Agenda for DC’s Mayor – “People want to know why there has not been a clear answer given, and that’s not to say that there is an easy answer,” DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) said. “But first we were told by the mayor that it might be synthetic drugs or domestic violence, then it was illegal guns. Homicides are up. Not just up, but up by 30 percent. Layer over that changing explanations and it gives people cause for real concern.”  [The Washington Post]

Phil Mendelson Gives in, Joins Twitter – “Yes, I have succumbed,” Mendelson writes in an email to LL.  [Washington City Paper]