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2013/05/24 22:19
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For 29 years, I have defended clients facing marijuana charges in the District. At every initial appearance, without fail, the judge admonishes the defendant either to stay in school or to hold down a...
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2013/05/24 15:37
2013/05/24 15:37
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Young people love their iPhones, Keller reasons, so they must love Uber as well. If only these Democrats would get out of the way: Enter the D.C. City Council, that hotbed of liberalism. Last week...
2013/05/22 22:38
2013/05/22 22:38
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Visiting D.C. inmates became harder after the closing of the Lorton Correctional Complex. Early in the morning on Dec. 4, 2012, Andre used a long-nosed revolver to rob a classmate with whom he’d had...
2013/05/22 21:19
2013/05/22 21:19
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The budget was largely crafted by Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), who is benefiting from a surge in city revenues including back-to-back surpluses of more than $500 million. But D.C. Council Chairman Phil...
2013/05/22 10:46
2013/05/22 10:46
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Memorial Day, coming up this weekend, is for remembering those who have died fighting for our country. Veterans Day in November honors all who have served. Your Notebook was a reluctant Naval...
2013/05/22 10:46
2013/05/22 10:46
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D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson wants to do away with the city's gas tax. According to The Washington Post, Mendelson wants to replace the 23.5 cent tax with an 8.3 percent tax on wholesale gas...
2013/05/22 01:19
2013/05/22 01:19
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ONE OF THE FIRST things D.C. Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) did after taking over the newly constituted education committee was host a dinner aimed at establishing a new tone of...
2013/05/21 02:20
2013/05/21 02:20
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The District’s Office of Tax and Revenue failed to collect $6.5 million over a five-year period because it did not charge penalty fees to businesses that owed money — a punitive system now under...
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2013/05/20 16:20
2013/05/20 16:20
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D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), by virtue of strong support in his home ward and the city’s changing demographics, is the most viable mayoral candidate in two decades. (Marvin Joseph/The...
2013/05/18 20:38
2013/05/18 20:38
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Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells announced his campaign for mayor today, promising a crowd of drenched but cheering supporters that he would create a "livable, walkable city" and help end the "crisis...
2013/05/18 18:47
2013/05/18 18:47
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The race to be elected Mayor of the District of Columbia in 2014 now has two official participants after Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells officially announced his candidacy Saturday afternoon in...
2013/05/18 08:39
2013/05/18 08:39
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Reporters from both the gossip website and The Toronto Star claim to have seen the video and allege it shows the controversial mayor inhaling from a pipe. The video, which has caused uproar in...
2013/05/17 20:19
2013/05/17 20:19
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Uber says its “cheap, classy rides” are again under regulatory assault. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) Six months after city officials and Uber settled conflicts over regulation of the app-based...
2013/05/17 12:48
2013/05/17 12:48
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The public will have the chance to sound off about D.C.'s slow ambulance response times Friday. The issue is at the center of a D.C. Council public hearing, which kicks off at 11:30 a.m. You can also...
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2013/05/17 02:20
2013/05/17 02:20
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Prospects that the District will become the first jurisdiction in the nation to require gun owners to purchase liability insurance were dampened Thursday when Mayor Vincent C. Gray made known that he...
2013/05/16 19:34
2013/05/16 19:34
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District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray's administration does not support a bill that would require gun owners in the nation's capital to carry liability insurance. The city's deputy insurance...
2013/05/16 12:20
2013/05/16 12:20
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Just one year after the District of Columbia passed a law making it slightly less expensive to register a handgun, the liberal city council is trying again to discourage gun ownership by making it...
2013/05/16 01:46
2013/05/16 01:46
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A seven-year, billion-dollar plan by the District and Pepco to protect homeowners from power outages by burying major power lines underground would add a few dollars to monthly bills. Hundreds of...
2013/05/15 20:34
2013/05/15 20:34
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District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray wants to move up to 60 major power lines underground at a cost of $1 billion to prevent extended outages in the future. The mayor on Wednesday accepted a task...
2013/05/15 16:20
2013/05/15 16:20
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The group’s full report will not be released for several weeks, but City Administrator Allen Y. Lew said the task force has agreed on its main recommendation: Put the lines most vulnerable to storm...