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• Colbert I. King -- Sleeping Rough in a D.C. Juvenile Center

  Dogs in animal shelters have it better. At least they sleep alone at night. Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 7:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Tommy Wells, D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, --, Juvenile, Council of the District of Columbia, D.C., Oak Hill Youth Center, A, Charles Allen, In, King, Northeast (Washington, DC), Colbert, I., Alan Pemberton, Grace Lopes, Sleeping, Center, Youth Services Center, Rough

• Back to Basics in Banking

  Before becoming a journalist in 1990, I spent nearly a decade in commercial banking. Read More... Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: The White House, In, to, Sean Hannity, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, Banking, Basics, Sarah Palin, Back

• More Deaths -- and a Promised Review in D.C.

  From the Aug. 15 Post: "Police yesterday captured a District man who escaped from Cheltenham Youth Center in Prince George's County on Sunday along with two other detainees. Maryland state troopers and D.C. police said they arrested 18-year-old Demarco Read More... Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Tommy Wells, D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, --, Council of the District of Columbia, Vincent Schiraldi, D.C., Adrian Fenty, Prince George's County, A, Oxon Hill, In, Peter Nickles, and, More, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Review, Maryland, Gerald Long, Demarco E. Smith, Promised, Cheltenham Youth Center, Deaths

• In the Wrong Hands

  In May, three teenagers placed in secure detention at Oak Hill Youth Center by D.C. Superior Court judges were taken to a cookout at the Northwest Washington home of Vincent Schiraldi, director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services. Read More... Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Tommy Wells, Council of the District of Columbia, Vincent Schiraldi, Adrian Fenty, District of Columbia Court System, Oak Hill Youth Center, District of Columbia Department of Corrections, Phil Mendelson, the, DYRS, In, Hands, Devon Brown, Jesse James, Wrong

• Checks and Imbalances in D.C. Finances

  Is there something in the water in the D.C. chief financial officer's office that makes some employees fool around with what's not theirs? Read More... Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, D.C., Natwar M. Gandhi, Deborah K. Nichols, In, and, Checks, Michael Clark, Lasana K. Mack, Imbalances, Jacqueline C. Wright, Finances, Harriette Walters

• The History in Our Town

  Today the missus, my mother-in-law and I will get gussied up and return to my old neighborhood in the District's West End for an annual black-tie gathering of close friends and our special guests. It also will be a time for some of us to marvel at -- Read More... Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, the, Our, In, Louis Jordan, Town, Winifred Thompson, Southwest (Washington, DC), American University Park, West End, Durango, History, Ruth Brown, Johnny Ace, National Training School, Jack Benny, Johnny Mack Brown, Sam Browne, Dunbar Hotel, Rochester, Howdy Doody

• Billary's Adventures in Primaryland

  "Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared Read More... Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 5:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Arkansas, The White House, In, Bill Clinton, Billary's, Primaryland, Jonathan Alter, Lyndon Johnson, Adventures, John Edwards (Politician), Newsweek Inc., Vincent Foster, Corey Booker, Stuart Taylor, Steve Chapman, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr.

• Outfoxed In the District

  Excerpts from the transcript of a videotaped deposition of a former Howard University Hospital emergency room physician, conducted Aug. 3, 2007: Read More... Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 5:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Council of the District of Columbia, the, In, Dennis Rubin, Outfoxed, U.S. Government Accountability Office, David E. Rosenbaum, Howard University Hospital, Northwest (Washington, DC), District, The New York Times Company