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Rep. Norton Praises Nobel Award
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courtesy of ‘Ghost_Bear’
DC’s sole member of Congress, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, issued a press release today remarking on the President’s surprise Nobel Peace Prize award this morning, saying “Obama Redeems Diplomatic Leadership and Re-Establishes America on World Stage” as a result of the award.
The world is abuzz right now over this award and whether it [...]
Barry Stops Short of Screaming “You lie!”
‘Marion Barry’
courtesy of ‘cliff1066â�¢’
Everyone is rightfully outraged over the recent mass firings of DCPS teachers due to a $44m budget shortfall; over 200 were let go on Friday. Students, teachers and their allies came together yesterday to protest the cuts and a lot of their attention focused on the Chancellor of DCPS, Michelle Rhee. They [...]
DC is MIA From CNN Money Calculator
‘Can’t Do That’
courtesy of ‘cogdogblog’
WTF CNN!
CNN Money’s “How far will my salary go in another city” calculator doesn’t include DC!
How am I supposed to figure out how much farther my hard earned DC bucks could go in Sheboygan, WI or Carlsbad, NM?!!!
Epic FAIL!
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Wisconsin Avenue Circulator Route Is No More
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
As reported earlier this month, the in peril Wisconsin Avenue section of the Georgetown-Union Station Circulator route has officially been cut. According to the DDOT, the new Georgetown routing will be Washington Circle to K Street (under the Whitehurst Freeway), right on Wisconsin Avenue, right on M Street, right [...]
Cabbie Strike
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courtesy of ‘NCinDC’
As of yesterday, 1000 DC cabbies, about 1/8th of the city’s drivers, are on strike. They are protesting the Council’s proposal to instate a medallion system, similar to that of New York City, on taxi drivers in the district. Medallions are essentially a system of licensing for cab drivers. The city will offer a [...]
Rep. Norton, Residents Discuss Health Care Despite Lack of Vote
Photo courtesy of Karl Johnson
DC residents: You have no vote in the House of Representatives. You have no vote in the Senate. You have no official say on how the health care insurance system will be reformed. You are second class citizens, according to Congress, because you live in the home of the federal government. [...]
Save The Georgetown Circulator
‘Driving, Not Reading!!! :)’
courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
The Georgetown Monitor reported yesterday that the DDOT is seriously considering a significant cut to the Circulator’s Georgetown service based on budgetary concerns and ridership totals. Despite Ward 2 DC Councilman Jack Evans’ protests, City Administrator Neil Albert has apparently already signed off on the plan.
The [...]
9/12 Rally Crowd Estimates: Two Million?
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The Glenn Beck/FreedomWorks 9/12 DC Taxpayer Rally was on Saturday, with conservative Tea Party activists congregating in Washington to protest various things like healthcare reform, federal taxation, government deficit spending, and the President being a Stalinist Nazi Fascist Kenyan Hitler. They drew a healthy-sized crowd, by many accounts much larger than [...]
VA Gov Candidate McDonnell’s Disgusting Thesis
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WaPo broke the story over the weekend about the 90 page thesis that the Republican Gubernatorial candidate wrote when he was 34 years old. It’s a paper he wrote about his overall political philosophy and was written in 1989, about a year before he announced he was running for public office in VA. [...]
Health Care Town Hall Fun Comes to Our Backyard
Photos courtesy of Karl Johnson
Congressman James Moran (D-VA), who represents Virginia’s 8th congressional district which covers a large chunk of northern Virginia including Arlington and Alexandria, held a health care town hall meeting tonight at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA. He didn’t go at it alone, however, as he was joined by Gov. [...]
Arlington Republicans Becoming Gay Friendly?
‘virginia 11.2.08 – 57′
courtesy of ‘laura padgett’
Arlington is a very progressive and heavily democratic county where Democratic Party candidates have nothing to worry about going into a general election. While that is most likely still the case for the VA House of Delegates race in the 47th district (which includes parts of Court House, Clarendon, [...]
Conservative “Activists” at Metro Stations
Some activity around Union Station and Foggy Bottom Metro stations today; protestors with signs and petition clipboards calling for an end to “Rxationed Health Care” and protecting “Worker’s Rights.” Not your typical Greenpeace minimum wage clipboarders or LaRouchie card table shriners, though; the attire was a bit too far over this side of smart casual, [...]
More »New Theme Song Alert
Sen. Al Franken (R) and singer Gloria Gaynor on August 4, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/WireImage for NARAS)
A little birdie sent me this picture, and it makes me laugh really hard, because, as she pointed out, “if anyone knows the meaning of I Will Survive, it’s Al.”
Franken and Gaynor were [...]
Meet Jack Kingston of Georgia
Folks, this is Jack Kingston. He’s a Republican representative from the 1st District of Georgia, and he’s the latest in a long line of politicians to interfere in DC’s Home Rule. He has submitted an amendment to a House bill that would prevent needle exchange within 1,000 feet of any gathering place for [...]
More »Kwame Brown Live-tweets Budget Gap Hearing
Usually we get the best DC Council livetweets from Mike “Loose Lips” DeBonis, but today, we’re getting them right from Councilman Kwame Brown, who tweeted during today’s budget meeting as the council worked through the last of the $50M imbalance:
Sales tax increase rejected
Parking tax increase still barely hanging on
If you smoke. Your (sic) paying more. [...]
