With LL weaving deep into Page 6 territory this week, he figured he might as well keep up the shtick:
Seen in the D.C. Council box at Verizon Center Tuesday night for the George Michael show: At-Large Councilmember David A. Catania, with many friends.
Seen in the front rows at Wolf Trap for "Hippiefest" on Wednesday night: [...]
LL has been informed that the D.C. Chamber of Commerce has made their endorsements in several of the major D.C. Council primary races. In each of those, incumbents unsurprisingly pulled in the chamber's nod:
Ward 2 Democrat: Jack Evans
Ward 4 Democrat: Muriel Bowser
Ward 7 Democrat: Yvette M. Alexander
At-Large Democrat: Kwame R. Brown
The endorsements, made by the [...]
That's the actual subhead in a press release from Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans' office. Luckily, the statement redeems itself by presenting some real news (as opposed to the recent "[Kwame] BROWN BAGS IT FOR PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS".)
Residents in Shaw have been begging for ShotSpotter since the dawn of the police listervs, or at least [...]
On Saturday afternoon, LL was watching the weather report with bated breath, as a line of thunderstorms threatened to put the kibosh on this year's Capital Pride Parade, the centerpiece of the yearly gay-community celebration and the first chance for the players in this year's campaign season to truly come out. (Yes, pun intended.)
Luckily, the [...]
This morning, about 300 members of the area's hotel employees union gathered in the halls of the John A. Wilson Building to lobby councilmembers on the long-percolating noise bill.
The bill, which aims to put a decibel ceiling on noncommercial speech, has caught labor ire due to concerns that it would curb union protests. (Not all [...]
OK, like everyone else in town, LL's been trying to figure out what the hell's going on with the soccer stadium proposal. Here's what LL has been able to determine:
No deal is in place yet. According to Wilson Building sources, the sticking points include, yes, the amount of the District's commitment—the Fenty administration is holding [...]
LL's on the scene at the Kennedy Rec Center in Shaw, where Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans is holding his re-election kickoff party.
In the company of council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Evans announced minutes ago he's throwing his support behind Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Evans had been [...]
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club's endorsements are usually noteworthy for no other reason than the fact they happen so damn early in the election cycle. This time though, there was plenty of drama on offer at the club's meeting tonight at the John A. Wilson Building aside from the timing.
The big scoop: Eugene Dewitt Kinlow [...]
One of the District's hardiest political addresses is once again occupied: Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans will be locating his campaign headquarters at 1005 7th St. NW, on the highly visible northeast corner of 7th and New York Avenue.
Evans, who is being challenged thus far by Mount Vernon Square lawyer and community activist Cary Silverman, [...]
High Drama on Noise Bill! Evans amendment fails, 7-6. Voting to water down the bill/cave to unions: Bowser, Evans, Graham, Gray, Mendelson, Thomas. —Mike DeBonis
The battle over the noise bill, recently brought back from the dead, comes to a head today at the D.C. Council's legislative meeting.
Actually, the battle is well underway: At this morning's council breakfast meeting, councilmembers got pretty huffy over the bill's prospects. Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans described an amendment he plans to introduce that [...]
"Healthy DC," the plan put forth in March by At-Large Councilmember David A. Catania that aimed to insure every District resident, looks to be dead.
In its place, Catania announced at the D.C. Council's pre-legislative meeting press conference this morning, the D.C. Healthcare Alliance—which covers the District's poorest residents—will be expanded so that uninsured folks who [...]
In the culmination of a nearly four-month, sometimes controversial, and always confusing process, the D.C. Democratic State Committee last night selected the last three members of the District's delegation to the Democratic National Convention in August. Councilmembers Muriel Bowser of Ward 4 and Jack Evans of Ward 2 both earned voting slots, as did Ward [...]
In a town where Barack Obama got better than 75 percent of the vote, this wasn't supposed to happen. But it did anyway: Hillary Clinton picked up an extra District delegate to the Democratic National Convention last night. For that, Obama supporters have only their own to blame.
The D.C. Democratic State Committee met in the [...]
Four years ago, Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans narrowly missed getting a trip to the Democratic National Convention as a delegate for Howard Dean. This time around, the rules changed and, since the primary, everyone thought Evans was in like Flynn.
Well, not so fast.
Two delegate spots are reserved for what are called PLEOs—party leaders and [...]
