🥳 Dream City is now one year old.

To mark the anniversary, Cuneyt and Tom look back at a remarkable year in D.C. politics. And they revisit their first newsmaker interview: their sit-down with Janeese Lewis George during the mayoral primary.

During the interview (originally aired 2/23/26), JLG lays out how she would fund expanded child care, search D.C. government for waste, tackle truancy, deal with President Trump and ICE, rebuild downtown and respond to concerns about democratic socialism. She also weighs in on AI, Waymo and accelerating housing development at RFK.

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00:00 Dream City Turns One 🎂

05:21 Janeese Lewis George’s D.C. Roots

09:09 How JLG Would Pay for Child Care for All

14:30 Can JLG Cut Waste Before Raising Taxes?

17:09 Truancy and D.C.’s Education Problem

19:23 JLG’s Management Style

21:27 How JLG Would Deal With Trump and ICE

23:55 Rebuilding Downtown and Union Station

26:52 Democratic Socialism and Business Anxiety

29:39 AI, Waymo, and the Future of D.C.

31:34 Can JLG Speed Up Housing at RFK?

33:41 The Mark Segraves Experience

The Dream City Podcast is supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism.

The Dream City Podcast will hold the powerful accountable and take you inside D.C.’s business and political worlds. Along the way: Revelatory conversations with city officials, business leaders, and the best-sourced journalists in town.

Music credit: Highway 430 by Blue Dot Sessions

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