It still has a website–but it seems that D.C. Council's Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination is no longer.
Doxie McCoy, communications director for Council Chairman Vincent Gray, emailed this week in response to City Paper's cover story, "How the Gun Lobby Shot Down D.C.'s Congressional Vote," to point out that Councilmember Michael A. Brown no [...]
A D.C. Council committee has voted to disapprove Peter J. Nickles' nomination as the District's attorney general.
At a meeting this morning of the committee on public safety and the judiciary, chair Phil Mendelson, along with colleagues Yvette Alexander and Mary Cheh, voted against the confirmation. Councilmembers Jack Evans and Muriel Bowser voted to confirm.
Under council [...]
Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander kisses cutout of At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown at Precinct 110.
On Tuesday, Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander told LL that despite the lobbying of colleagues Marion Barry and Harry Thomas Jr., she wouldn't cross Carol Schwartz by supporting prime challenger Michael A. Brown.
She apparently gave in. Alexander says she plans to join Barry and Thomas tomorrow for a 10:30 a.m. press conference endorsing Brown.
LL heard [...]
We're headed into the final weekend. So who will have the biggest war chest to blow in the next five days?
According to reports filed earlier this week, Ward 2 incumbent Jack Evans has better than $184,000 in the bank; challenger Cary Silverman has but $3,440. Unopposed at-larger Kwame Brown has $144,000 in the bank. Republican [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When running for political office, incumbency certainly has its benefits. You get your name in the paper all the time. You can send out newsletters on the public dime. You inevitably make deep-pocketed friends who donate to your campaign fund.
And, in Ward 7, you get to hold a "State of the Ward" speech.
Last night, that [...]
This afternoon, the D.C. Council's public works and environment committee voted to strip $2 million meant to reconstruct Klingle Road NW from Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget proposal. Furthermore, the committee voted to add language to budget legislation requiring the road to remain closed, effectively overturning a 2003 council vote to reopen the road.
For LL's [...]
By now, you may have heard of the legal troubles of one James L. Walls Jr., the mayor of District Heights, Md., who was arrested for soliciting a male undercover cop for prostitution early Thursday morning.
Fun fact: Mere hours before Walls was arrested near Verizon Center, he had been hanging out with Ward 7 Councilmember [...]
Typically, the only time LL's Thursday-afternoon strolls through the John A. Wilson Building even get a whiff of celebrity are the occasional Dan Tangherlini sighting in the mayoral bullpen. (Governance rock star, that guy!) But not this week.
Yesterday afternoon, distinguished Spanish tenor and Washington National Opera general director Plácido Domingo spent more than an hour [...]
Washington Post this morning reports that the Fenty administration has been a bit selective in dishing out coveted tickets to the Washington Nationals. Some D.C. councilmembers get 'em, but Fenty leaves others off the list.
Those left on deck include At-Largers Phil Mendelson ,Carol Schwartz, and Kwame Brown. Not hard to figure out why those [...]
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 [...]
At-Large Councilmember Kwame R. Brown's gotten a fair amount of attention for his campaign conveyance, a huge blue conversion van plastered with Kwame Brown-in-’08 decals.
Sorry, Kwame, you no longer are king of campaign transpo. Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander has you beat.
This monster was parked outside the Washington Senior Wellness Center this afternoon in advance [...]
Joe Fengler is pissed. The member of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6A, which serves Stanton Park, Lincoln Park, H Street NE, and other "East Hill" neighborhoods, is a strong proponent of the enhanced noise regulations that failed to proceed at a Tuesday D.C. Council meeting.
Perhaps the biggest reasons he's pissed: Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander and [...]
