Candidates in next Tuesday's special election to fill two open D.C. Council seats have collectively raised over $1 million in the course of the campaign. Voters will chose council members for Wards 4 and 7, after those positions were left empty by Mayor Adrian Fenty and at-large Council Chairman Vincent Gray. Voters in D.C. Public Schools' Second District will also elect a school board representative. In Ward 4, ANC Commissioner Muriel Bowser leads the pack... more ›

For Nationals fans among the 1.6 million Comcast subscribers in the area, the wait is over. After an acrimonious 15 months of squabbling, Comcast and MASN have settled their differences. This weekend, Comcast agreed to broadcast MASN-produced Nationals games for its area subscribers. more ›

After 22 straight scoreless innings, things looked bleak for the Nationals. With their highly-anticipated Battle of the Beltway on tap, the Nats had to beat the Cubs and Kerry Wood making his first start of the season. Well, a little bit of lineup shake up did the trick as four players, including Damian Jackson and Marlon Anderson, homered in a 5-3 victory over the Cubs. Firmly in fourth place, the Nats can now look ahead to their three-game showdown against their natural regional rivals, the Orioles. more ›

Ask and ye shall receive, right? Some Chevy Chase residents are wishing it weren't so. Residents of the Northwest neighborhood are a little angry that increased police patrols -- caused by a rash of thefts -- have led to a higer number of parking tickets, or so writes the Washington Times. And what does the police have to say about that? Writes the Times: An official in the police department's 2nd District, which includes... more ›

Continuing in what has been a rough few months for baseball, Rafael Palmeiro of the Baltimore Orioles -- the team many District residents called their own prior to the arrival of the Nationals -- was given a 10-day suspension today for steroid use, reports the Post. The O's first baseman, who only two weeks ago celebrated his milestone 3,000 hits and 500+ home-runs, is the tenth player suspended so far this season for failing steroid tests mandated by Major League Baseball, and his suspension brings local relevance to a growing scandal over the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports. more ›

It was just over two weeks ago that the Washington Nationals, to great fanfare, took the field at RFK Stadium for the first Major League Baseball game in Washington in over three decades. Years of political bickering, backroom negotiating, and hoping were finally put to rest as the team defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks in front of a capacity crowd. more ›

Stadium Re-Naming Moves Forward: DCist reported last week that local pro-democracy activists are pushing to have RFK Stadium, currently searching for a $1.5-$2 million a year corporate sponsor, named the "Taxation Without Representation Field at RFK Stadium." The initiative's initial goal was $10,000 by April 3, but overwhelming support for the idea pushed them to up the ante to $20,000 and now $51,000 by April 14, the date of the Nationals home opener against the... more ›

The 2005-2006 baseball season is but a week away, yet a simmering conflict between Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos and Major League Baseball officials has left the Washington Nationals without a television broadcasting deal. But the Post's creative online design put the whole dispute into perspective: relatively speaking, better no TV deal for the hometown team than no functioning government, as Iraq must well know. more ›

Final Baseball Vote Set for Today: How many final votes on the baseball deal are there? For baseball owners, their final vote on whether to send the Montreal Expos (to become the Washington Nationals) to Washington is today. While the real deal making has happened over many months and this vote is more of a formality, the cloud of unsettled District Council squabbles over the contentious stadium deal have put a cloud over today's vote, the Post reports. more ›

Now Official, Nationals: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a baseball team name: the Washington Nationals. While we've already heard that the former Montral Expos were going to be renamed the Nationals, the name and logos are going to be officially unveiled at a Union Station ceremony today. And the logos aren't going to be like this old Senators logo at right. more ›

On the heels of the latest controversy, DCist notes that there's been more baseball confusion surrounding our "team to be named later." First, the Post reported that a plan for purchasing season tickets in 2005 will be unveiled today. We're nearing the close of the business day and DCist has been hitting refresh on a number of baseball websites -- with no plan in sight. Though the Expos president, Tony Tavares, states that past delays "had nothing to do with the council's postponement of the stadium vote," DCist wonders what effect the ongoing stadium fued between Williams and Cropp is going to have on our tentative plans to see baseball in D.C. in the near future. more ›

Lots of stadium news as the day of the D.C. City Council vote on the baseball stadium proposal is here. The Post reports that Mayor Anthony Williams has lined up enough votes to get his proposal for a South Capitol Street stadium passed by the council. The two crucial votes, Ward 1's Jim Graham (left) and Ward 8's Sandy Allen, have been secured. In exchange for their support, Williams will fund library improvements (Graham's request) and build a recreation center (Allen's request). more ›

A jubilent Mayor Anthony Williams announced today at the City Museum that the Montreal Expos would indeed move to Washington D.C. next year. The Post has the story, as well as the Associated Press and Reuters.(Meanwhile, bitter Virginians are blaming their governor.) more ›

Mayor Anthony Williams is confident that the District will land the Expos and is anxiously awaiting a "positive" call from Major League Baseball officials, a call that could come today. But the mayor tells WTOP that he doesn't want to "jinx" the city's prospects by being too confident. more ›

Today in Milwaukee, Peter Angelos, the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, will face down a number of Major League Baseball officials who think moving the Montreal Expos to Washington is the best thing for the ailing team. The Post, which titled its article "The Showdown Begins," said that "informal overtures" between the MLB's relocation committee and Angelos have gone nowhere. The Post's baseball sources say that despite offers to compensate the Orioles franchise, Angelos has... more ›

The Post reports the city is about to disclose plans for a $400 million publicly financed stadium off of South Capitol Street. Additionally, this is "amid" signs that Major League Baseball is strongly considering Washington as the destination for the lackluster Montreal Expos. The Post has two highly placed baseball sources that say the following two things are going to happen: First, the baseball owners relocation committee is "leaning toward recommending" to the executive council... more ›

While DCist was expecting the Post's editorial board to support bringing baseball into the District, their staff editorial brings up a few logical points that dispells Baltimore Orioles owner Bud Selig's concerns about the impact a potential move by the Montreal Expos to the Washington region. From the Post:THE BEST ARGUMENT for bringing major league baseball back to the nation's capital lies on the other side of the continent, in the San Francisco Bay area.... more ›