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 [...]
City Paper’s Unsolicited Political Advice of the Week
The candidate: Vincent Gray, mayoral hopeful
The challenge: Your opponent is trying to tie you to the early 1990s, one of the most ignominious periods in modern D.C. history, when you served in the failed administration of Mayor Sharon Pratt. Expect this to be a recurring theme [...]
I get a tip from a colleague that Traci Hughes might be out as the D.C. Police Department's spokesperson. This morning, I call her office to get confirmation.
I'm put on hold. After two minutes, I decide to hang up and try again.
I'm put on hold again.
Finally, a pleasant voice gets on the line at the [...]
The other day Carl Kerstetter sent me the above picture of his son David with his medals from his military service which included a tour of duty during the first Gulf War. The picture shows what David was before his mental-illness reared up and took over much of his life. On November 6, he was [...]
