drez

Hmmm. I think Gray will raise taxes, and I further think most people already know/expect this. I view his emphasis on trimming government before raising taxes as a first step in constructing an argum...

Adding further anecdotal evidence to the contention that it's a small percentage of folks who are committing a large percentage of the crimes....

Probably not his constituent service fund, or at least not mostly. It was probably various non-government entities he managed to shake down, I mean convince to contribute....

+1...

The mixed use model is great. IMO that's a prime motivator for making the architecture so appealing. As noted above, no one wants to live in a box above a box....

We already tax every drink, every chicken wing, every donut at 9.5%. DC Gov is already a 10% stakeholder in every meal you eat and every drink you imbibe in every (legal) restaurant/tavern/nightclub i...

It's been raining since 2007 when the global financial crisis started, duh. If you haven't noticed that 'till today, thank Fenty. ...

Gray's council approved and allocated funding for every budget in the past four years. ...

Yeah. His use of DC in this was as a prop- A near-obligatory corollary to the twin Republican fantasy-lands known as "The Real America" and "the pro-America areas of this great nation". Mindless driv...

As a native Southerner, I think the term you are looking for is scallywag....

Condolences. The fact that traveling with six-figures worth of diamonds (rather than using more commercial means) is common, doesn't make it any less sktetchy. ...

Who gets the insurance money?...

A less baggy but similarly-toned face could pull it all together. Think Denzel in The Mighty Quinn....

Great. Now Ellwood Thompson is one of the living undead. Between our reverse vampire Mayor Elect, the baby-gobbling idiot savant in Ward 8, and the high wages, DC looks to be the next big hotspot for ...

I had in mind Jack Johnson, but same idea....