Pissed About Klingle Road Vote? Following through on his comments earlier today, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham will hold a public roundtable on the matter on Thursday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the John A. Wilson Building. Room TBD. —Mike DeBonis
WaPo's Juliet Eilperin clocks in today with an update on the court case over giving the polar bear a little bureaucratic love under the Endangered Species Act. Like many such cases, this one is gummed up in federal court, with environmental groups pushing the Bush administration to make a decision on the Endangered designation. The [...]
Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen; things read cannot be unread. Look, I like books too, but if you're ever, ever thinking that celebrating that love in the form of a Sir Mix-a-Lot parody is a good idea, please, stop it. It was all I could do after reading this to convince myself that [...]
This afternoon, the D.C. Council's public works and environment committee voted to strip $2 million meant to reconstruct Klingle Road NW from Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget proposal. Furthermore, the committee voted to add language to budget legislation requiring the road to remain closed, effectively overturning a 2003 council vote to reopen the road.
For LL's [...]
The University of the District of Columbia’s law school is surging in the U.S. News & World Report specialty ranking for the “clinical training” category. The UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, which won full accreditation from the American Bar Association only three years ago, has tied Stanford for 13th place (and clobbered 19th-ranked [...]
Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, who kept her job after botching descriptions of the Jack Abramoff scandal two years ago, devoted much of her latest column to somebody else whose ability to stay employed mystifies the locals: Redskins personnel guru Vinny Cerrato.
Seems Cerrato's feelings were wounded by Skins blogger Jason La Canfora's contest to come up with a [...]
For the second year in a row, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has proved himself faster than the city's premier alt-weekly local-politics columnist.
This morning, congressional/bureaucratic/judicial/media types gathered at Anacostia Park for the yearly Capital Challenge three-mile race, a fundraiser benefiting the D.C. Special Olympics. Fenty, a special guest participant, finished the race in approximately 18 minutes [...]
Communism. Pay phones. Roger Clemens' reputation. The dustbin of history's getting mighty full.
It's gonna have to make room for the Rock Creek Park Parcourse, though. The remnants of the '70s fitness icon were piled in a flatbed trailer this morning, with nothing but fresh holes in the ground to remind one of exercises like the [...]
Today, Don Juan’s restaurant in Mount Pleasant will make its case before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board that it deserves to have live music and dancing reinstated, just as Don Jaime’s and Haydee’s did last week.
Don Juan’s is a different animal than the other two, and so its case will be harder to make. Over [...]
My boyfriend and I packed up a carload of art and pots and pans this weekend and hauled it over to our new apartment building near Fort Myer in Arlington. We started stacking our stuff in the hall when we noticed the flier posted by the elevator door. Out of service. The flier had been [...]
DCist marks the one year anniversary of the fire that gutted much of Eastern Market. Apparently, the renovation project will be finished months and months behind the promised deadline of January 2009. So what's stalling this project? The blogger notes several important issues and does a good job illuminating them. One biggie: Interest has [...]
Filmfest DC has added a couple of screenings to its schedule "due to popular demand"—Ballerina, a documentary on five Russian dancers, and AmericanEast, which our Jule Banville praised in our guide to the fest, writing, "who needs subtle when you've got a message–and a cast talented enough to get it across?" Both films screen Saturday [...]
Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier have been busy this week defending a new initiative aimed at the recent spike in crime. Perhaps that’s because the crime wave and the plan to fight it are neither real nor new.
With 50 homicides as of April 28, this year has been no more deadly than [...]
To be "interim" or not to be "interim"? That is the question surrounding Peter Nickles, who has served Mayor Adrian M. Fenty as acting attorney general over the past three months.
Yesterday, Nickles taped an interview on NewsChannel 8's NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt. DePuyt asked the controversial consigliere whether he planned to lose the interim tag [...]
* The Post has the update about yesterday's shooting at the Excel Institute. The shooter, identified as 27-year-old Wesley Johnson, shot two people and injured another with a car (he stole two). All are expected to survive. The motivation behind the shootings is unclear.
* Check out local writer Holly Jones' March update in her Dispatches [...]
