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Park Police Chief Returns, Real Story Overlooked 2 Feb 2011 | 03:58 am
After a seven-year legal battle, Teresa Chambers has been reinstated as Chief of the U.S. Park Police. She returned to her job yesterday after an administrative panel, with new members appointed by t...
Moved to the Countryside 1 Feb 2011 | 07:07 am
I was shocked to learn this morning from The Georgetown Dish that I've moved to Rockville. Truth be told, as of yesterday evening, I've moved near Darnestown, Maryland, a place that this city boy did...
D.C. Same-Sex Marriage Law Survives Supreme Court Challenge 19 Jan 2011 | 11:19 am
Speaking of Home Rule, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning denied review of a challenge to D.C.'s same-sex marriage law. The petition in the case of Jackson v. D.C. Board of Elections was aimed at re...
Token Voting Power Gone 19 Jan 2011 | 06:59 am
A New York Times editorial today draws attention to the District's lack of voting representation. The long suffering, and underrepresented, taxpayers of the District of Columbia are properly worried ...
For Rent: Penn Quarter Condo 7 Jan 2011 | 11:12 am
Now that Attorney General Peter Nickles is out of office, how quickly will he ditch the secret Penn Quarter condo and D.C. driver's license that he was forced to rent in order to establish residency i...
Evans Emerges Unscathed, More Powerful 4 Jan 2011 | 09:45 am
DC Wire reports today that the new Council Chairman, Kwame Brown, has replaced Jack Evans (Ward 2) as Chair Pro Tem with Councilmember Mary Cheh (Ward 3), a largely ceremonial position that Evans, as ...
Will Gray Administration Address City Nuisance Properties? 4 Jan 2011 | 06:21 am
There’s the crumbling façade of a historic house on N Street that, aside from a chain link fence securing it, has remained frozen in time while all of the adjacent properties were renovated, rented, o...
Washington Post Makes Me Laugh 4 Nov 2010 | 12:14 am
I pulled out the special Election section of the Washington Post this morning to read this teaser in the bottom right corner: The District: Vincent Gray was elected mayor in a landslide, while Kwame ...
Why is the DC Board of Elections Incompetent? 3 Nov 2010 | 12:46 pm
It's 9:46pm and I can find out election results at the click of a mouse from as far away as the Dakotas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas. But in DC, nearly 3 hours after the polls closed and with what...
For an Elected Attorney General 3 Nov 2010 | 02:06 am
In most states, I'd probably say that there are enough knucklehead politicians running around. But in the District, I believe it is best to elect our attorney general. There are good reasons in favo...
