The DC Voice Talks with WARD 5 Candidate Kathy Henderson at the Wilson Building
A program to get District residents working is not being fully enforced. With a 9.9 percent unemployment rate, there are now calls for the city government to be more vigilant about enforcing requirements for contractors to hire city workers. Northeast D.C. activist Kathy Henderson showed up at construction sites Tuesday questioning whether they were complying with the 51 percent rule.
Riders of ATVs and motorbikes are openly breaking the law on D.C. streets, but there’s not much police can do about it. “The guys do all kinds of tricks in the street,” D.C. resident Mark Rice said. “They got the quads and they’re doing the wheelies and stuff like that.” Dirt bikes, four-wheelers, and other ATVs are illegal in the District, but the drivers know police can’t chase them.
Community Activist Kathy Henderson said former Mayor Adrian Fenty has been gone less than two months and already her neighborhood is covered in trash. Years ago, Fenty came to Henderson's neighborhood and made a big show of clearing illegally dumped trash from an alley in the rear of the 1800 block of Maryland Avenue NE.