- Mike DeBonis
- Reporter
Mike DeBonis covers local politics and government for The Washington Post. He also writes a blog and a political analysis column that runs on Fridays. DeBonis joined in Post in 2010 after spending six years at Washington City Paper as a reporter and editor, including three years writing a column on District politics. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and a native of Northwest Indiana.
- DeEvening Links: Hoodless
- Eatonville encounter figures big in determining Gray’s knowledge of payoff scheme
- DeMorning Links: Jim Vance to the rescue
- Mayoral ambitions surfacing early in D.C.
- DeLongWeekend Links: Whither the urban playground?
- Uber moves closer to being street legal
- More ugly D.C. street signs
- DeMorning Links: A farewell to Chuck
- DeEvening Links: Polish notation
- Howard Brooks pleads guilty in probe of Mayor Gray’s 2010 campaign
- Can green development cut your D.C. Water bill?
- DeMorning Links: Bikeshare bandit
- DeEvening Links: The burn thickens
- Marion Barry prepares to complete cycle of redemption yet again
- Squeaky wheels get classy notes from Gray
- What’s in a D.C. Council earmark?
- Chuck Brown funeral arrangements start to come together
- DeMorning Links: City of parks
- DeEvening Links: Burning questions
- Where does the Gray campaign probe go from here?
- Vincent Gray urged to look beyond Natwar Gandhi in CFO search
- DeMorning Links: Bloomingdale battleground
- DeEvening Links: Speed bleed
- What the Thomas Gore charges mean for Vincent Gray
- Marion Barry released from Las Vegas hospital after blood clot scare
- Marion Barry hospitalized in Las Vegas, report says
- DeMorning Links: Harry Thomas speaks
- DeEvening Links: More jobs!
- Two top D.C. officials add millions in assistance to their home ward
- DeEvening Links: Children are our future
- Chuck Brown farewell planning could take a while
- Lawyers try to save Harry Thomas Jr. $92,500
- DeMorning Links: ‘D.C. lost its president’
- DeEvening Links: RIP Chuck Brown
- For Chuck Brown, a grand public goodbye?
- DeMorning Links: Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5)
- Gray, Graham order to give depositions in lottery lawsuit
- Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat on D.C. Council in race to replace Thomas
- DeEvening Links: Hearing deficiency
- Vincent Gray, Jim Graham ordered to give depositions in lottery lawsuit
- DeMorning Links: Power of the purse
- DeEvening Links: Too much trimming?
- Ward 5 to pick replacement for Thomas on Tuesday
- A last look at the Ward 5 electorate
- Tax change means more D.C. residents are buying D.C. bonds
- Mary Cheh lampoons Ken Cuccinelli in joke memo
- DeMorning Links: When we were kings
- DeEvening Links: Months for medical marijuana
- Corporate tax breaks can pay off for D.C.
- D.C. voters have to finish ethics reform in November
- DeMorning Links: Smooth operator
- DeEvening Links: Disparate treatment
- How D.C. Ward 5 is voting so far
- Rogue contractor hangs nonstandard street signs!
- DeMorning Links: Family matters
- DeEvening Links: Theory of evolution
- No, you can’t have a magic citywide parking permit
- D.C. employees angered over vacation change
- Parade season starts this weekend
- DeMorning Links: Mind the amorous teens
- DeEvening Links: Cheers and Giros
- D.C. budget surprises likely to persist
- Don’t sleep on Frank Wilds in Ward 5
- Harry Thomas Jr.’s prison request gets judge’s nod
- DeMorning Links: Bad breath
- Sale of D.C. health-care firm in works
- DeEvening Links: Justice on South Capitol Street
- Shake-ups for D.C.’s summer parade calendar
- DeMorning Links: The rent is too damn high
- DeEvening Links: Who’s next?
- Activists’ home is ‘total loss’ after fire
- Robert Bobb to chair Youth Trust involved in Harry Thomas, Jr. case
- Why Harry Thomas wants to do his time in Alabama or Florida
- DeMorning Links: A good guy
- DeEvening Links: Thirty-eight months
- Ex-D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. gets 3-year sentence
- Harry Thomas sentenced to three years (Live Updates)
- DeMorning Links: Serendipity
- DeEvening Links: Tommy at the bat
- Accused of not monitoring group home care, D.C. now seeks money from man’s estate
- Ward 5 hopeful Delano Hunter explains his debts
- D.C. bills dead man’s family $600,000 for care it failed to properly monitor
- DeMorning Links: Now with less ‘grit’
- Prosecutors’ sentencing claims ‘unjustified,’ Thomas lawyers argue
- Jury awards $2.9 million verdict against D.C.over negligent care of mentally disabled man
- DeEvening Links: Ask before you tell?
- DeMorning Links: Deadly day in D.C.
- Censure Marion Barry, says former AG Peter Nickles
- D.C. ethics board nominees have been identified, Gray aide says
- Graham no longer keen on Sunday liquor store sales
- DeMorning Links: Peace in Petworth
- Council candidates try to reassure Ward 5 voters
- D.C. councilor Harry Thomas should get 4-year sentence, prosecutors say
- Harry Thomas letter to judge: ‘I am truly sorry for what I did’
- William Shelton gets 30 days for theft of ANC funds
- DeMorning Links: Breach of trust
- DeEvening Links: Welcome RGIII
- Marion Barry blames media for Asian uproar
- DeMorning Links: Fewer D.C. babies are dying
- DeEvening Links: Camera vigilante
- Higher D.C. cab fares might take a while
- Ahead of sentencing, D.C. attorney general decries Harry Thomas’s crimes
- DeMorning Links: The neighborhood charter school?
- DeEvening Links: Far up farming
- Want a giant D.C. government health care contract?
- Wilson Building approved for political meetings
- DeMorning Links: Let’s get sustainable
- DeEvening Links: Now it’s nurses
- Sunday liquor sales in D.C. at last?
- Youth nonprofit executives endure tough questioning
- DeMorning Links: A killing on H Street
- Why D.C. budget autonomy remains doomed
- Norton isn’t gung ho on Height Act changes
- DeMorning Links: D.C. mayors and the Republicans they love
- If Thompson doesn’t sell Chartered, it will likely lose D.C. health-care contract
- DeEvening Links: Tony’s back
- Former D.C. mayor Williams to lead Federal City Council
- Jeffrey Thompson ‘unlikely’ to keep health-care contract, D.C. official says
- DeMorning Links: Shrink to improve?
- 2 computers stolen from D.C. Auditor’s office
- DeEvening Links: Fill those potholes
- Jeffrey Thompson’s Chartered Health Plan had a very bad 2011
- DeMorning Links: Social incentives
- DeEvening Links: Final flight
- Some facts about D.C.’s federal taxpayers
- Carol Schwartz puts her tax protest on hold
- DeMorning Links: Justice denied
- DeEvening Links: Suite Jesus
- D.C. Emancipation Day in pictures
- Figure at center of D.C. campaign finance probe resigns from health-care company
- Jeffrey Thompson steps down from Chartered Health Plan
- DeMorning Links: Happy Emancipation Day
- DeEvening Links: Lumen8 yourself
- D.C. Emancipation Day’s 150th anniversary is Monday
- Metro escalator woes: The libertarian diagnosis
- DeMorning Links: Pass it on
- DeEvening Links: Easy as hopscotch
- Four medical marijuana shops move toward approval
- Where tall D.C. buildings might be tolerable
- Taxi sting hero goes to the ballgame
- DeMorning Links: The height of innovation
- DeEvening Links: Making amends in Chinatown
- D.C. taxi commission approves fare increase
- Is Kaya Henderson shunning the national media?
- D.C. taxi hike coming within weeks; further upgrades await
- DeMorning Links: Parade of bills
- Former D.C. administrator Robert Bobb to reenter government service
- DeEvening Links: Occupy D.C. United
- Robert Bobb to join board of embattled youth nonprofit
- D.C. elections officials condemn O’Keefe voting ploy
- DeMorning Links: No joy on Georgia Avenue
- DeEvening Links: Can you hear us now?
- James O’Keefe tries to defend voter ID laws by filming D.C. election workers
- Asian groups want a more meaningful Barry apology
- DeMorning Links: Waiting for Wal-Mart
- DeEvening Links: King of Ward 8
- Does Ron Moten have a chance in Ward 7?
- Lessons from Marion Barry’s anti-Asian comments
- DeMorning Links: Diploma dip
- D.C.’s Marion Barry widely rebuked for comments about Asian business owners
- DeEvening Links: Watergate Exxon gas prices
- UPDATE: Marion Barry apologizes for anti-Asian remarks
- DeMorning Links: Death and rebirth
- Nonprofit linked to ex-D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. fires president
- DeEvening Links: Marion’s mouth
- Thomas scam leads youth nonprofit to fire CEO
- The mathematics of Vincent Orange vs. Sekou Biddle
- DeMorning Links: 543 votes
- 5 D.C. Council members appear to win Democratic primary
- DeEvening Links: Polls close at 8 p.m.
- Initiative backers look to amass support outside D.C. polls
- DeMorning Links: Election Day
- DeEvening Links: A mindreader, a clown and a comedian walk into a conference ...
- Voters in D.C., Md. head to polls Tuesday
- Where D.C.’s Republicans are
- Newcomer’s campaign vexes D.C. GOP honchos
- Where D.C.’s early voters are
- DeMorning Links: Where the Nats fans are from
- D.C. Council candidates scramble for primary votes
- Jeffrey Thompson’s fortunes tied to marriage of business, D.C. politics
- DeEvening Links: Dashed dreams at St. E’s?
- Pete Ross’s riches aren’t just from furniture
- DeMorning Links: 5:12
- DeEvening Links: The diversification mayor
- D.C. Council can’t escape politics of pay raises
- DeMorning Links: Migratory herds
- DeEvening Links: Peep this
- Mayor’s son Carlos Gray once worked for Thompson firm
- DeMorning Links: Camera candor
- DeEvening Links: What a spectacle
- The rise and fall of Jeffrey Thompson’s health care profits
- A nuclear blast of any size would end D.C. as we know it
- DeMorning Links: Let the pushback begin
- D.C. ethics law overhaul hampered by hiring difficulties, enforcement duties
- DeEvening Links: More good public schools
- DeMorning Links: A hundred years in bloom
- DeEvening Links: Drinking and driving
- Thompson firm loses chance for major D.C. contract
- Redskins talk gets cold reception in Hill East
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