Muriel Bowser

Yeah, and, and I, I share your, your skepticism.

I think I went into this being like, "Eh, you know, uh, is this a story? Is it just a dog and pony show sort of thing?" But I, I did come away pretty interested by how direct she was being about projects such as the one on Georgia Avenue, which, to be clear, began under, uh, Mayor Muriel Bowser, and, um, e- even Maryland has been doing some on their side of the line of trying to have these dedicated lanes because leaders recognize this is one of, if not the busiest bus corridor in the entire city.

It moves more people than, you know, some Metro lines.

Um, but because of, you know, how popular some of these, these spots are, a lot of people are commuting from northwest to their jobs downtown, for instance.

But I think the biggest reason is, is simply that there is this, you know, sort of fear that does make its way into the halls of, of city government, that they are gonna be really, you know, pissing a lot of people off by doing a project like that, and crucially, pissing the sort of people off that are important political constituencies that, you know, the, the mayor and the current administration really wants to listen to, and maybe less so, you know, your average worker who rides the bus, who is, uh, maybe a little less influential downtown.

So what she told you is, "I'm gonna get stuck projects unstuck." How does she do that?

Yeah, I found it a bit ironic, because that is a phrase that I've mostly heard, uh, the mayor, Mayor Bowser, um, who is quite different [laughs] um, ideologically from Janeese Lewis George use.

She mainly used that to talk about development, but Lewis George was using it to talk about these transit projects, pointing to the Georgia Avenue one as a perfect example.

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I don't e- Wes Moore, Muriel Bowser, Abigail Spanberger, um, s- take Diane off your list.

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Take Tyler off your list.

That's, that's-

Muriel Bowser's a smart woman

... 20-ish years ago, right?

She's the current mayor.

22 years ago.

Wow.

Um, Muriel Bowser, who's been mayor for a decade probably-

A bit, yeah.

As you remember, we talked about the lawsuit that I had back in, I think, 22, where we defeated the establishment, Dr.

It was Booth versus Bowser.

And my 13-year-old son had to draw a picture, because you like art, he loves art.

He loves art.

If that's, you know, what if this continues, what Janice Lewis George wants to do.

I mean, Bowser, this has kind of been her M.O. I'm thinking about when I was reporting on the parks and the fountains.

I reported that, you know, in Bowser's very first meetings with, you know, Trump 2.0 people, she brought people.

a list of things that they could work together on and fountains were on that list.

I wonder if I wonder if mosquitoes were.

I mean, I think that this is one of the few things that there could be an opportunity for collaboration between the term administration and the D.C. government.

And thus far, it's been Bowser's MO to really try to jump on those things and seize those opportunities for collaboration.

I've mentioned a couple of times this episode, but because she chairs the Committee on Health for the council, Council Member Christina Henderson has been vocal about this on social media, calling it timely.

So, you know, unclear exactly what strategies the government is going to turn to here, but it looks like they're trying to explore some, some non-chemical options that maybe Maha will be a little bit more okay with.

And then the other thing that really jumped out to me, Adam, is, you know, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn't publicly weighed in on the proposal, but one of DC's council members, Kristina Henderson, in a post on X, called it, quote, "Random and yet timely news," saying that she's had multiple meetings over the past few weeks about mosquitoes, standing water, the need for treatment strategies in public spaces.

And to me, this just sort of fits in with the sort of overall approach that DC and Mayor Bowser have taken with Trump, which is, you know, find areas of mutual interest and cooperate where possible, and it feels like, you know, hatred and removal of mosquitoes may be one of those areas.

Yeah.

District of Columbia, Washington.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined community leaders to celebrate the opening of the newly renovated $91 million Harriet Tubman Elementary School, a modernized campus that expands capacity to more than 600 students.

DC News Now reported.

Florida, Tallahassee.