News & Politics From the Archives: The Charmed Life of Marion Barry DC’s mayor has the town locked up politically. But he continues to be shadowed by rumor and controversy, and the US Attorney’s Office has him in its sights. Can he dodge this bullet? Feature Archive | Feb 19, 2014
News & Politics From the Archives: Boss Barry The ambitions of Marion Barry have taken him from SNCC to Pride to the DC School Board to the DC City Council to the Mayor’s Office, and now he wants to make DC a city that works, like Boss Daley’s Chicago. But first he has to fix the potholes and get the support of middle-class blacks and dodge the Pride scandal and talk Congress into bailing DC out of its financial mess, without taking Home Rule away, which Congress did a century ago to Boss Shepherd. Feature Archive | Feb 19, 2014