A good friend passed on a New York Times article about the new mayor of Washington, Adrian Fenty, one of the new breed of young civic politicians in US cities:
The son of a black father and a white mother, Mr. Fenty attended Oberlin as an undergraduate and got his law degree from Howard University. In Adams Morgan, an ethnically mixed area of young professionals, Mr. Fenty’s parents enjoy a near cultish following. For decades, they have owned a running shoe store there, Fleet Feet, and Mr. Fenty’s father, Phil, has coached hundreds of marathoners. “All the people who voted for me are just a subset of Fleet Feet customers,” Mr. Fenty jokes.
