Fifty-one percent of District residents polled in recent days disapprove of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's job performance, according to WJLA-TV, and get this—"even more believe he cares more about advancing his career than about the city's needs."
The poll, echoing another poll done earlier this summer, shows an emerging racial split on Hizzoner. Where 23 percent [...]
Yesterday a story with "Fucking" in its headline rocketed to the top of the Google News front page. This earned Google four complaints.
Two months ago City Paper ran the words "Suck Your Dick" on the front cover. The image went up online the day before and elicited nary a peep, but when the issue [...]
Some folks might be satisfied with the "innocent explanation" presented in this morning's Washington Post editorial on the enrollment of Mayor Adrian Fenty's twin sons at Lafayette Elementary:
Mr. Fenty's neighborhood school, West Elementary, has only one fourth-grade class. Most studies show that twins, particularly if they are of the same gender, should be in separate [...]
Great lunch read for everyone: Matt Labash's lengthy profile of Marion Barry in this week's Weekly Standard. (Yes, the Weekly Standard).
Barry admitted Labash into his inner life, a courtesy not extended to Washington City Paper, including a tour of the mayor-for-life's home, featuring a look at his bedroom urinal. Oh, and Barry shows Labash his [...]
Note that semicolon up there in the title. You see how beautifully I deployed that? I learned punctuation as a copy editor, a job that I took at Spin 14 years ago. There, I first changed like to such as and made bands its rather than theys. I mastered the en dash and the difference [...]
Key line: "In those instances where you call it 'trouble,' it’s been other people who have done that."
So the Washington Post appeared to want to make you pay big bucks for meet-ups with their reporters and editors. Politico had the scoop on the Post scheme in which Publisher Katharine Weymouth would host "salons" in which lobbyists and association muckety mucks would pay large sums of money to hobnob with Posties, Obama administration [...]
So how did the Red Line metro crash death toll jump to nine last night then fall back to seven this morning and then back up to nine? Last night, City Desk reported that three news outlets—WUSA9, WTOP, and WJLA—had confirmed that nine had died in the crash. WTOP cited the D.C. Fire Department as [...]
Bishop Harry Jackson, leading opponent of gay marriage in the District, entered the No-Spin Zone this evening.
Jackson was featured in a five-minute segment midway through the O'Reilly Factor, as proof, according to host Bill O'Reilly, of "the staggering hypocrisy of the left and media that enables the far left to do these things."
Some backstory: On [...]
A couple weeks old, but new to LL: Men's Fitness, noted authority on men's fitness, has included Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in its yearly tally of high-profile specimens of masculinity.
Here's what the mag has to say about Hizzoner, he of the early-morning interval runs and mid-day bike rides around Hains Point:
"I'm training as much as [...]
Tune in!
LL will be talking with host Bruce DePuyt about Mayor Adrian Fenty's recent mea culpa streak, the move to have a gay marriage referendum, and more.
And now to get to Rosslyn without getting soaked....
Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. has been walking a mighty fine line the past couple of weeks.
When you're representing a ward that contains both quickly gentrifying (and gayifying) areas like Bloomingdale, Eckington, and Brookland, in addition to the generally conservative Bungalow Belt and many of the city's most politically active churches, same-sex marriage would [...]
LL just got off the phone with a nearly manic Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham. Manic, because he says that he's being unfairly deemed a pizza-banning legislator by a local TV station.
"I have been in media for 30 years, and there's never been a more preposterous story than this one," he says.
When WJLA-TV trained his [...]
Watch out, Plotkin. Watch out, Kojo.
Your days of local-politics hegemony on the radio airwaves is over: Jonetta Rose Barras is returning next week with a new hourlong politics show. "D.C. Politics With Jonetta" will air Tuesdays at noon 11 a.m. on WPFW-FM, 89.3 on your radio dial.
The new show comes almost a year after WAMU-FM [...]
Tune in to NewsChannel 8 at 4 p.m. today to watch LL run down the happenings at Marion Barry's court appearance today and help NewsTalk host Bruce DePuyt understand why Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's being such a jerk about baseball tickets.
Bruce shouldn't expect a lot of help with that one—LL hasn't the foggiest!
