Loose Lips saw this poster of Hizonner on the way to work today. First thoughts: Someone has way too much money to burn printing large color posters.
Second thoughts: Low blow. Everyone looks bad mid-blink.
Third thoughts, upon closer examination: Hilarious that the poster's anonymous designer bothered to write "© 2010, All RTS Res'd" on a poster [...]
LL's column this week—which drops in tomorrow's paper and will be available online later tonight—looks at what, if any, impact D.C. Council chairman candidate Kwame Brown's debt problems will have on the race. (There are also a few new details those of you who have been paying close attention to this story might find interesting—even you, [...]
Good morning, Washington. It’s that same old feeling outside today: hot and humid with a chance of showers and t-storms in the evening. Perhaps the weather is to blame for the District’s sluggish job growth.
The Examiner reports D.C. speed cameras are hauling in a record amount of money from careless drivers. And it just so [...]
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New DYRS chief and fire investigators
D.C. unemployment drops—a little
Some people shouldn't own pets
Good morning sweet readers! LL is on high alert today; his mother-in-law is coming to [...]
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Elites win the dawn
Pizza delay
The real reason LeBron went to Miami
Good morning sweet readers! Has anyone else seen the trailer for the new movie about Facebook "founder" [...]
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Tent city achievement
Mr. Gray, tear down that fence
Weaver's funky ad
Good morning sweet readers! Did anyone here what Prince had to say recently about our online age? "The [...]
Our long municipal nightmare is over: D.C. Council Chairman and mayoral candidate Vincent Gray is removing part of a yard fence he installed without a permit, in order to bring the fence into compliance with all the relevant city ordinances and regulations.
"He started removing the fence last week," Gray campaign spokeswoman Traci Hughes tells City [...]
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Kwame Brown vs. unpaid traffic tickets
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Ron Moten's news conference: the video
Good morning sweet readers! LL is pumped to have survived his first earthquake this [...]
For about 20 minutes today, Peaceaholics founder and Adrian Fenty pal Ron Moten held court on the steps of City Paper's building, blasting D.C Council Chairman Vincent Gray and venting about the mayoral campaign. Loose Lips columnist Alan Suderman captured the whole thing on video, and we've condensed it down to the highlights. (For more [...]
The Ron Moten show continues!
After Moten's confrontation fail with D.C. Council Chairman and mayoral hopeful Vincent Gray, Moten—whom Mayor Adrian Fenty wants more citizens to emulate—told a bunch of sweaty journalists that a) he's not a crook, and don't you dare call him a crony; B) Gray is a crook, and he will release the [...]
Peaceaholics founder Ron Moten will soon be waiting right outside City Paper's Adams Morgan office building to confront Vincent Gray. Gray and Mayor Adrian Fenty are both here for a radio interview on WPFW-FM (our downstairs neighbor). It seems Moten doesn't appreciate Gray calling him one of Fenty's "cronies." A close ally of Fenty's, Moten [...]
By a 5-4 vote, the D.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that the District's gay marriage law can stand. An opinion out this morning says the Board of Elections and Ethics was right to refuse a referendum on the law; the board had said the referendum would violate the city's Human Rights Act. "The question [...]
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Harry Thomas v. Student Loan Debt
Go-Go loses one more venue
Who speaks for the trees?
Good morning sweet readers! LL gave birth to his first column today. Thesis statement: [...]
Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. appears to be the latest member of D.C.'s legislative body with financial woes to come to light—court records show the U.S. government is claiming he owes than $16,000 in student loan-related debt.
UPDATE: Thomas disputes this, saying all his loans have been "satisfied," and the whole brouhaha originated from an [...]
Update: Pwned! The Reliable Source had the dress and the date news months ago. LL takes no responsibility for this and places the blame squarely on KCRA-TV reporter Lynsey Paulo. LL will now and forever leave fashion reporting to the experts.
The damned West Coast media has won lost the morning (even if it is afternoon already) [...]
