D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is reportedly announcing a mayoral run tomorrow, and if you think that R. Donahue Peebles—his main company in the will-he-run-or-won't-he-run derby—will be standing beside him offering an endorsement, think again.
Continuing a pattern that's played out several times in recent months, just when it seems Peebles might fade into a [...]
If Vince Gray runs for mayor as reports indicate, he forfeits an almost certain re-election as council chairman. So who runs?
Jack Evans: Back in September, the Ward 2 councilmember told LL he'd "be interested" in running for chair if Gray ran for mayor. But Evans, in his past, has pledged mayoral runs only to think [...]
UPDATED, 5:40 P.M.
Ahead of an imminent mayoral run, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is moving to quell concerns about an unpermitted fence surrounding his Hillcrest home.
Jeffrey Anderson reported in the Washington Times earlier this month that the District Department of Transportation threatened to fine Gray $300 for the six-foot-high fence, which exceeds the 48-inch [...]
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray will enter the mayoral race tomorrow, close sources tell LL, ending months of deliberations.
Gray will file papers with the city campaign finance office shortly before 2 p.m.; he will address a small group of supporters outside the Frank D. Reeves Center afterward, the sources say. A larger campaign kickoff will [...]
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UPDATED 6:12 P.M.
Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas will not serve jail time for felony gun possession but will serve 30 days in a halfway house and two years probation, Superior Court Judge Robert Morin has ruled.
"I'd like to say, I'm really sorry this happened, and I wake up every day wishing it didn't," Arenas said [...]
UPDATED 5:22 P.M.
Gun restrictions passed by District lawmakers in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller v. District of Columbia decision are constitutional, a federal trial judge has ruled.
The plaintiffs—which include Dick Heller, the retired security guard whose name tops the landmark case—challenged the constitutionality of city laws implementing a registration process and restricting [...]
Earlier this month, as LL reported, the city gave a $150,000 grant to D.C. Vote to promote voting rights and statehood, only to take it back when it was discovered that several grant-seekers were excluded from the judging due to a technical error.
The re-do is complete, and surprise: The Office of the Secretary announced today [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Vincent Gray: I Will Decide on Mayoral Run Next Week'; 'Barry Drug Supplier Now Supplying D.C. Campaigns With Donations'; 'District to Fire D.C. General Shelter's [...]
With new statistics showing alarming levels of HIV infection among the estimated 36,500 District men who have gay sex, the city is recommending that they be tested for the virus twice yearly.
A new report [PDF] indicates that 14 percent of men who have sex with men (aka MSMs) test positive for HIV—"a rate five times [...]
In the annals of D.C. political history, the name Hassan H. Mohammadi has been all but forgotten—relegated to the depths of LexisNexis and a couple of mentions in Dream City, that indispensible chronicle of '80s Washington.
But 20 years ago, Mohammadi was the talk of the town—a friend of Marion Barry's throughout the mayor-for-life's '80s party [...]
UPDATED 12:25 P.M.
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray, appearing on WPFW-FM this morning, says he'll decide on a mayoral run next week, bringing to an end prolonged deliberations that have kept city political observers on edge.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—' Ex-Chief Ramsey Sought Judicial Chaperone For Upcoming Deposition'; 'Arenas’ ‘Character’ Witness Is a Cartoon Character: Gazo the Pranksta'; and tweets galore!
Morning all. Washington City [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Prosecutors: Arenas Should Be Put Behind Bars'; 'Gilbert Arenas' Cover-Up Text Messages'; 'Pictures: Gilbert Arenas' Guns'; and tweets galore!
Greetings all. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and [...]
Here are some low-res photographs of the four guns Gilbert Arenas brought to the Verizon Center on Dec. 21, as contained in a prosecution sentencing memorandum.
"One 500 magnum, silver Smith and Wesson revolver":
