Archive for the ‘All Politics is Local’ Category
Does the Referendum Rejection Even Mean Anything?
‘Activists Grandmothers’
courtesy of ‘Poldavo (Alex)’
Did the Board of Elections and Ethics kill the gay marriage debate in DC by ruling against “The Referendum Concerning the Jury and Marriage Amendment Act?” Hardly. It codified DC’s position on defining marriage and headed off the marriage-opponents’ major strategy, but it didn’t come near to ending the debate. After unpacking the [...]
Is Adrian Fenty the Next Obama?
‘well-dressed mayor’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
The Daily Beast seems to think that it’s possible. In today’s “Big Fat Story,” Fenty was proffered amongst six rising, African-American political stars that the publication feels are following in the President’s foot steps. The Daily Beast cites the Mayor’s landslide victory and his work with the DC school system as being Obama-like qualities. While there is little doubt [...]
Referendum Hearing Set
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
As a follow-up to Tom’s Daily Feed and my Feature: WaPo reports that the DC Board of Elections has set a June 10 date for a hearing on the proposed marriage referendum that was filed earlier this week. The Board is said to be expediting the application process in order to give pro-referendum groups enough time [...]
Prop 8 and You: How California’s Marriage Debate Affects DC
‘DC “No on 8″ March’
courtesy of ‘ann gav’
Proposition 8 is not a strictly Californian issue. It is an initiative of national consequence and its underlying strategic principles are redefining the same-sex marriage debate in DC. To restate the obvious, the results of the Prop 8 vote flew in the face of political convention. The population of a relatively [...]
Obama Extending & Eliminating DC Vouchers
via alexashrugged and twitpic
In a day that saw a crowd of over 1,000 kids and another few hundred adults opposite the Wilson Building, including a number of students who are directly part of DC’s current voucher experiment, the White House announced that they will seek to continue the voucher program for those already in it, [...]
A Very Very DC Party: 100 Days
There are some parties that pretty much scream “DEEEEEE CEEEEEE” and this is one. There’s a big party tomorrow night over at Brown Rudnick that will be both job fair and 100-Days celebration, complete with audience-compiled report card.
$20 gets you in, and there’s an open bar, which is pretty much the holy [...]
Tea Party at Lafayette Park
‘Tea Party in DC’ (courtesy ’skye820′)
In addition to Tax Day, today is the official Fox News/Freedom Works “Tea Party” Day, when thousands, nay, millions of outraged conservatives who do not know what teabagging really means will descend on DC to protest taxes, because a Keynesian stimulus package and a ~3% increase in the marginal tax [...]
Finally–welcome, Bo!
I’m actually really pleased at the way the White House has handled the arrival of the new pup–the post on their blog was understated (”In case anybody was wondering…”) but they must have known that Puppywatch 2009 had been going on since Nov. 2 and people are understandably excited. There was even a minor controversy [...]
More »Capitol Visitors Center Evacuated Briefly
Upwards to the CapitolOriginally uploaded by tbridge
Details are a bit sketchy at this point, but Gawker is reporting that the Capitol Visitors Center has been evacuated:
Premiere: Inside Guantanamo
‘Obama: Shut Down Guantanamo’
courtesy of ‘mike.benedetti’
Mentioning Guantanamo Bay incites different reactions in different people, but almost everyone has a passionate take on the issue. One of President Obama’s first actions when he took office was to sign a bill to close Guantanamo within a year, so this couldn’t have been a better time for National [...]
Kite Festival In Pictures
‘Flying a Kite’
courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’
It may have been a gray and drizzly Saturday, but that didn’t stop Inspiration DC’s Rebecca and I from heading out to take pictures of the Smithsonian Kite Festival on the Mall.
Packed with kids of all ages, flying kites of every variety, the turn out was more than I expected. Even [...]
Econopocalypse - WaPo’s Help for the Employment Forlorn
‘Fannie Mae Stole My Job!’
courtesy of ’sinksanctity’
The Washington Post’s employment website just launched a new feature to help those recently displaced from gainful employment with a feature “How to Survive a Layoff“. I’ve personally been reading this feature due to my recent separation from my employer. It’s a handy To-Do style list of things folks [...]
McPherson Square station closed
Update: Metro reports that the blue and orange lines are back to normal. Just in time for the best part of rush hour. Perhaps today isn’t so unlucky after all!
Dr. Gridlock, from the Washington Post, reported a few minutes ago that McPherson Square Metro Station is closed. It is reported that a Blue Line train [...]
VDOT YouTube - Your Tax Dollars At Work
Okay, I know it’s apocryphal for us to be linking to another blog <cough>BoingBoing</cough>, but while the video is cool and somewhat local (we had a shot of our own Wilson Bridge), I wonder if our tax dollars, besides going to the banks, insurance companies, and other misanthropes in another metro area <cough>New York</cough>, are now funding [...]
More »DC Voting Rights Act Passes the Senate!
This just in, S.160, the DC Voting Rights Act, has passed the Senate 61-37! It’s onward to the House, at this point.
There were a couple of amendments attached today, including:
The Ensign Amendment, which relates to Gun Control
The DeMint Amendment, which relates to the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine
The Durbin Amendment, which also [...]
Cloture!
Never has such a weird word been so loudly acclaimed. Today, the Senate voted 62-37 to close debate on S.160, the bill that grants the District a Representative in the House, and tomorrow will vote on its passage. Several senators crossed the aisle (at least one in the opposite direction…) to make this [...]
More »D.C.’s Big Beer Ban
Participation Lager… Originally uploaded by dharmabumx
Well folks, it seems, much like the application of parking rates, D.C.’s leadership have painted with a large brush in order to solve a detailed problem. On February 9th, the D.C. Council enacted, at the behest of of several ANC members, a ban on the sale of single bottles of [...]
