As we all have figured out by now, BOEE is not the most reliable. But according to their latest updates on election returns, notorious ANC Commissioner and Ping Pong Hater Frank Winstead has lost his re-election bid. He got thumped:
Tom Whitley: 460 votes.
Frank Winstead: 161 votes.
Write-In: 11 votes.
This may be a huge victory for [...]
With incumbent Republican Carol Schwartz running a write-in campaign to keep her at-large council seat, and with less than a week to Election Day, it's a fine time for LL to run down how write-in votes are counted in the District of Columbia.
Yesterday, representatives from four of the seven council campaigns, including Schwartz's, met with [...]
I remember when thumb wrestling was taken seriously. It was something you played on long car rides, as you waited for a movie to start, etc. It was something you did when you were bored. It was something the slight, the skinny, the uncoordinated could do and still have a legit shot at winning. As [...]
Gabe Klein, co-founder of On the Fly, says his company ain't waitin' around to see if the D.C. Council loosens the vise-like regulations that have been choking street vendors. He's waited long enough to see if the city's climate will change for the better for mobile food vendors, so he's moving ahead with plans to [...]
Sequoia Voting Systems may have sent as many as 126 misprinted ballots out to District voters, LL has learned.
The ballots, as LL posted yesterday, were printed for one Ward 2 ANC single-member district (2F03) yet included the Ward 6 school board seat while omitting the Ward 2 council and school board seats. In a press [...]
One of the oldest and most frustrating murder cases in recent District history may finally come to a sad end. In June 1996, Shaquita Bell disappeared two weeks before she was scheduled to testify against her boyfriend, Michael Dickerson, in an assault case. Detectives had spent tons of time and resources attempting to find her [...]
The following is an absentee ballot mailed to a Ward 2 voter recently, provided to LL by the D.C. Republican Committee:
Here's your three things wrong. When you're in single-member district 2F03, you...
Shouldn't be voting for the Ward 6 school board slot
Should be voting for the Ward 2 school board slot
And should definitely be voting for [...]
The dog standing about eye-level to an elementary school-age child appeared to be leashed as it sipped water on a sidewalk in Dupont Circle. Corrine Johnson quickly learned the dog was only next to the leash, not attached to it.
In one second she saw the dog in the corner of her eye and in the [...]
Earlier this month, LL was contacted by a new neighbor, Maria Fernandez. She had moved to D.C. over the summer and had registered to vote here in mid-August, she explained. Six weeks later, she still had not received a voter-registration card in the mail or any other acknowledgment that she had registered.
On Oct. 3, Fernandez [...]
For a project 10 years in the making and still not even close to breaking ground, the new mixed-use Giant grocery project on Wisconsin Avenue can really pack 'em in. About 70 people showed up last night to a standing-room-only meeting inside a hot and airless room at the Police 2D headquarters on Idaho Avenue [...]
Yesterday a Superior Court judge denied a request by the D.C. Attorney General's office to seal exhibits entered into public record by two UDC professors as part of a FOIA lawsuit. The professors sued for the Department of Corrections' emergency plans at D.C. Jail, the city said releasing them would cause a terrorist attack, and [...]
D.C. is a crap town for public records. Especially police reports. I moved here from Seattle, where I could go down to the station and peruse stacks of reports. The Stranger, where I worked, based a weekly column off the documents, which were all written out with long, descriptive narratives. In D.C., there ain't no [...]
District resident Charles Scott Elliott has come across some fairly strange items in the alley behind his two-story brick row house in Capitol Hill: car parts, furniture, beds, bed frames, a couple of couches, and "some unrecognizable stuff that smelled bizarre and I didn't want to go near.…You name it, it's been dumped there," he [...]
Last week, I wrote about the extra steps taken by Judge Erik P. Christian to keep his private life private. He had his own domestic relations case sealed. Christian isn't the most popular judge on the D.C. Superior Court, and he has a reputation among many of the attorneys I spoke with for making unreasonable [...]
The D.C. Jail is on lockdown. A Sept. 24 release announces that the Department of Corrections (DOC) has instituted a "non-emergency security procedure" at the D.C. Jail until October 6. Inmate movement is restricted. A sign on the visitor's door says the lockdown started on Sept. 22 and that no visitors are allowed.
DOC spokesman [...]
