The House Oversight Committee's D.C. subcommittee held a hearing today on the legality of Occupy D.C.'s presence in McPherson Square. Let's set aside, for a moment, the absurdity of spending significant time on a protest that isn't impacting the lives of most D.C. residents in any measurable way—despite the assertion that Occupy has brought the [...]
DCist's Benjamin R. Freed pulls out the details of D.C.'s Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's personal wealth:
The Post tabulated her personal wealth as $1,697,521 in 2009, good for 176th highest on the list of 518 current and former House members.
Norton's 2009 financial disclosure, obtained from Legistorm.com, shows that in addition to her $174,000 salary, she drew income from [...]
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton released a statement last week pointing out that her fight to keep 19 District post offices open has been partially successful:
“As we predicted, the published list of post offices for study was preliminary, and now nearly half have been effectively removed from the list,” said Norton, a senior member of the [...]
This isn't exactly news, but D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton kicked off her re-election campaign over the weekend. And according to the Hoya, she's sticking to her mission, telling a crowd at Busboys & Poets: "Regardless of who controls [the country], this morning I am here to let them know they will not control the [...]
Yesterday, the D.C. War Memorial re-opened after a year-long restoration, and there's already controversy over the monument that honors 26,000 District residents who served in World War I and the 499 who died.
Congressional meddling continues apace, as one Texas Republican introduced a bill that would change the memorial—currently the only local memorial on the National [...]
Reagan Airport, District of Reagan, Reagan States of Reagan: The fourth (and final) privately-funded Ronald Reagan statue to mark the 100th anniversary of the president's birth has been placed—this one at Reagan National Airport, where, at nine feet tall, it towers menacingly over passers-by. To commemorate the commemoration, WTOP checked in with travelers at the [...]
The Post reports today that a federal appeals court has backed several of the District's gun laws which came into question after the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision. This is the second time the District's gun laws have been deemed appropriate under the Supreme Court decision.
A three-judge panel ruled in a 2-to-1 decision that gun [...]
It looks like D.C. may actually be moving toward an idea proposed by an insurance commissioner from the Mayor Anthony Williams administration, and picked up by Mayor Vince Gray earlier this year: The District can serve as a tax shelter for catastrophe insurance companies that currently keep their dollars ($60 billion of them!) offshore in countries like [...]
"Raise your hand if you knew how that trial was gonna end," quipped Ilir Zherka, executive director of DC Vote, a voter rights organization.
Zherka, who was speaking at an issue forum on District statehood at the Congressional Black Caucus's Annual Legislative Conference, was referring to the case of Bart Turner. Turner, a statehood activist who was [...]
One of D.C.'s most beloved politicians has become one of an increasing number of Martin Luther King Jr. memorial faultfinders. On Friday, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tweeted that she wants to see the memorial changed. "Heed outcry on redo of King's words on Memorial. Distorts man, not just words," Norton typed. The [...]
Many a District resident is willing, on petitions and in online comment boxes, to voice support for D.C. voting rights. But does your passion run deep enough to ink it on your skin?
Several score of people gathered in Dupont Circle earlier this evening to prove they would go so far in demonstrating pride for their [...]
"I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance": Success breeds imitation. The recent dance-protest at the Jefferson Memorial was such a hit—mostly because no one was arrested—that Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton wants to sponsor her very own dance-off. Norton has a permit for a dance on the Mall on July 30 as part [...]
Who Needs a Vote?: The Tea Party's rallying cry all of last year was, "No taxation without representation!" So it's somewhat mysterious that among the first moves the Tea Party-powered Republican House did today was to strip D.C. of the mostly symbolic representation we get for our tax dollars, voting down a resolution by Del. [...]
