A bill to permit gay marriages in the District of Columbia will be introduced to the D.C. Council on Tuesday, At-Large Councilmember David Catania announced tonight.
Catania made the announcement in front of more than 200 members of the GLBT community gathered at the True Reformer
"We are going to do it now," he said. Catania will [...]
All this week Councilmember Jim Graham has strayed from his usual m.o.: He's been press shy. He has stayed relatively quiet, refusing to answer questions about his indicted chief of staff Ted Loza and the various fallout issues that have come up.
Last night, Graham played hard to get with us over this story concerning his [...]
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LL will be on, along with WTOP's Mark Segraves, to talk Ted Loza and Jim Graham, and also about Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's poll numbers.
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If you're looking to find Trooper, the mangled pit bull ditched in a Southeast Dumpster by dog-fighting operatives last month, you may be disappointed. The dog is going to move soon from the Friendship Hospital for Animals to an undisclosed location.
Ever since his top aide was indicted on two counts of accepting bribes, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham has gone all out to defend his own honor, his own ethics. To that end, he gave this quote not long after chief of staff Ted Loza was arrested:
“I have 25 years of service in the District [...]
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One of my favorite spots on washingtonpost.com is the blog directory. There you'll find the cob webs of the paper's site—all kinds of niche blogs, stale blogs, and this blog: "Friday Follies: Totally random polls."
Well, the Post is now thinking that its 90-odd blogs are just too much for one newspaper Web site.
Good thinkin'!
Check [...]
In this week's column, LL, with the assistance of Jason Cherkis, examines Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham's close personal and political ties to Ted Loza—his top aide accused of taking $1,500 in bribes.
Loza occupied a privileged post in an office known for high turnover and heavyhanded management, organizing and accompanying Graham on overseas trips. Graham [...]
Earlier today, Cheap Seats Daily reported that J.P Szymkowicz, an expert on Dan Snyder's parking operations, had no problems getting to and from FedExField for the U2 show.
By reporting Szymkowicz's anecdotes, Cheap Seats Daily could have left the impression with readers that Snyder had, after 10 years of owning the stadium, come up with a [...]
Has Dan Snyder figured out how to hold events at FedExField?
Well, special correspondent J.P. Szymkowicz says that while he can't vouch for everybody, his U2 experience was uneventful, other than the show itself.
Szymkowicz says he left DC via Metro at 3 p.m. yesterday and arrived at the Morgan Boulevard station quickly and without any problems. [...]
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Morning all. Yesterday, the Pershing Park police misconduct case went back in front of U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who chewed out the District in August for failing to [...]
There was a quick-draw showdown on the dusty streets of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday, and Montana Senator Max Baucus came out swinging. Both Democratic proposals to create a government-run insurance plan were shot down by the committee, leaving saloon shutters flapping and the road wide open for Baucus to ride in with his plan [...]
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J.P. Szymkowicz has a prediction for tonight's U2 concert at FedExField:
"It's going to be a mess," he says. "By 6 p.m. they'll start turning people away from the parking lots. It's going to be another Radiohead."
In concert go-er parlance, "another Radiohead" means "way @#$%^&*'d up!" A lack of usable parking spaces for the precious British [...]
