At this point in the whole Pershing Park court mess, AG Peter Nickles is supposed to just play nice and hope the two big cases settle. Nickles offered up his problematic mea culpa and promised that settlements would be forthcoming. It appears his sweet talk has an expiration date.
Last week, plaintiffs lawyers in the Chang [...]
With the possible exception of the fun-filled Michelle Rhee hearing that we're live-blogging, PostKiller.com remains the No. 1 local news story in the Washington market. Two days ago, TNR reported that Allbritton Communications Co., publisher of Politico and owner of WJLA-TV and News Channel 8, would be launching a Web site—complete with Politico sensibilities—on the [...]
This is a bad sign. The weather is still pretty decent. But homeless shelters are at capacity or over capacity, according to recent census figures. On October 27, there were no vacancies for homeless men, and shelters for homeless women were over capacity by two. There were zero vacancies listed for homeless families.
Yesterday, there were [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Jack Evans Saves the Black Rooster"; "D.C. Police Release General Orders In Response To FOIA Fight"; "Peter Nickles Sends Flowers to Mary Cheh"
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In case you missed it: Rocken Rollen Stewart, who showed up at televised sporting events carrying a "John 3:16" sign throughout the 1980s, had his sign removed from a Redskins game at RFK in 1984. So he sued.
And he won. But it took eight years before Stewart was told by the courts he could carry [...]
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Yes, that Benin. Bear with me on this one, folks. It's going to take a minute, but I'll get there.
1. WTOP reported this morning on the Census Bureau's research on travel patterns in the D.C. metro area. The findings: of the region's 2.2 million workers, about 1.5 million commute alone, and about 600,000 [...]
Vincent C. Gray and the remainder of the D.C. Council have just gaveled to order a hearing on the "causes, implementation, and impact" of the D.C. Public School layoffs earlier this month.
LL will be following along on Channel 13 and live blogging the proceedings. (Actually, LL will be livetweeting and pasting those over here at [...]
"I love how it's young but at the same time intellectual," he says. "You can walk down the street and you meet 10 different people and everyone has their own cause and purpose." —Mike Manning of The Real World: D.C., quoted in Dan Zak's piece on the show's house.
Isn't it amazing how someone can [...]
Want to know more about this colossal new local Web venture coming from the people who gave us Politico? Here are some questions and answers:
What's the name going to be?
As DCist has already noted, the Black Rooster has been revived, Lazarus-like, from the dead.
Playing Jesus in this scenario, says owner Jody Taylor, would be Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans.
"The Black Rooster will crow again," Taylor says. Asked what happened to prompt the reversal of fortune for what had been slated to become a General [...]
Yesterday, TNR broke the story of a new Washington-area news site that'll be challenging the Washington Post, among other outlets, for supremacy on local Web coverage.
Following the jump, see the memo from local media mogul Robert Allbritton on this matter. It includes one key detail: A staff of 50-plus!
This time with feeling
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When the Great Dan Steinberg ran photos of the fanimosity at FedExField during the Tampa Bay game on his blog a few weeks ago, Dan Snyder told the paper to take the shots down. And the Washington Post complied quietly, removing the photos without any explanation to readers for the disappearance.
Snyder's heavyhanded attempt at message [...]
In early 2009, the Partnership for Civil Justice filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court in the hopes that the D.C. Police Department would get its act together and comply with a very basic FOIA request. What did the civil rights lawyers want?
They wanted the D.C. Police to cough up their operational procedures and general [...]
The picture on the right documents the soft side of D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles. Late last week, he clashed yet again with Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, this time over the Fenty administration's use of some fancy contracting footwork that enabled it to sidestep mandatory D.C. Council review of contracts exceeding $1 million. The [...]
