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Dear Consumer,
"With District ratepayers and consumers seeing distribution service rates increase by over $47 million in the last two years, there is a reasonable expectation for receiving safe and reliable electric service. Even with these rate increases, District consumers continue to experience poor electric service with no assurance the problem will be specifically addressed." - Excerpt from Office of the People's Counsel Petition.
The petition can be viewed in its entirety online - Petition of the People's Counsel's for an Investigation in the Electric Distribution System Reliability of the Potomac Electric Power Company in the District of Columbia
The Office of the People's Counsel is the public advocate for natural gas, electric, and telecommunications ratepayers in the District of Columbia.
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Dear Friends:

More than 100 ARAMARK employees from the region and City Year Washington DC volunteers participated in a day of service Wednesday to transform the Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care.

After 20 years, a great deal of work by the attorneys of Crowell & Moring, UDC Professor Louise Howells and her students and most important the resiliency of the residents, 1372 Kenyon Street is now a tenant owned property. They closed on June 18 and let me say this was quite the journey.
An absolutely unscrupulous landlord, who through some subterfuge and shenanigans took over a building that he truly should never have owned. Then he mistreated the residents, refusing to fix code violations before attempting to sell the building right out from under them. Although the landlord was offered $2.5 million for the building he refused, and instead was forced the sell the tenants the building for $586,000 and had to pony up his own money to pay off the remainder of the mortgage.
Last night the tenants gave me this great award plaque, but it is really they who are the heroes.