The Examiner has a good piece on Ward 8 Councilman Marion Barry. Here is the hook:

A responsible, morally upright politician might level with his constituents and tell them their children would be better served by a modernized school with a full array of classes and extracurricular activities, rather than a half-empty school with a leaky roof and no music or art classes.

Not our Marion Barry.

The article was written by Harry Jaffe, author of Dream City: Race, Power and the Decline of Washington, D.C. (Simon & Schuster, 1994).

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