Mayor Vince Gray, two D.C. councilmembers and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley were among the officials that congratulated President Barack Obama for openly expressing his support for same-sex marriage yesterday. more ›

When the D.C. Council gathers today for its legislative session, there won't be much of substance on the agenda. But in response to the tendencies of some potty-mouthed legislators, D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown will be pushing a resolution that would explicitly ban the use of profanities during council meetings. more ›

Word from the Washington Convention Center today is that a D.C. Council retreat -- awkwardly timed to coincide with Valentine's Day -- featured yet another shouting match and expletives hurled between Councilmembers David Catania (I-At Large) and Marion Barry (D-Ward 8). more ›

Despite a day of testimony from District officials and D.C. voting rights activists, a New Hampshire House of Representatives committee declined Friday to support a resolution endorsing D.C. statehood. The bill can still be heard in the full state legislature, however. more ›

Once again, Old Man Winter says no to statehood, as a forecasted snowstorm in New Hampshire compels D.C. officials to cancel their trip there, where they were to lobby local officials on behalf of the cause. more ›

If you're wondering why the Wilson Building looks redder than usual this evening, it's because the District is joining in today's commemoration of World AIDS Day by hosting a number of events and shining red lights on the home of the city's government. more ›

When it comes to talking about D.C. government ethics, it's easy to beat up on one group -- the councilmembers with second jobs. Yesterday, they rose to defend themselves. more ›

As I type this, the D.C. Council has officially been back to work for about an hour and a half. And already, it appears as if the summer recess didn't do anything to cool the fiery relationships between many of the members. more ›

Contenders in the Republican presidential contest have been going after presumed front-runner Rick Perry for a number of reasons, but they've focused in on one issue that truly seems to resonate with conservatives -- the HPV vaccine. more ›

Cornell Jones, director of the nonprofit group which is being sued by the city for using city grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, certainly has some opinions on the matter -- some incredibly homophobic ones. more ›

Last week, the D.C. GOP filed a complaint with the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance claiming that 10 of the 13 members of the D.C. Council had broken city regulations by steering money from their Constituent Service Funds to partisan organizations. It looks like some of the accused may be off the hook, though. more ›

The flirtations were intense and the relationship rocky, but the District's affair with Sulaimon Brown and the wide-ranging investigation he provoked came to a quick and quiet end today. more ›

It should have been clear from the outset that it wasn't going to be any normal D.C. Council hearing. The star witness, after all, refused to take off the sunglasses he was wearing. more ›

Anytime something dramatic happens in the District, the D.C. Council tends to respond dramatically. But in response to the South Capitol Street shooting that left four teenagers dead one year ago, Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) opted to take his time to craft a legislative response. more ›

We've now passed the hour mark on Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh's oversight hearing on the hiring policies of Mayor Vince Gray and his administration. But so far, the most notable news is who isn't testifying at the hearing: Sulaimon Brown, former Gray Chief of Staff Gerri Mason Hall, Gray campaign chair Lorraine Green and campaign consultant and alleged bag man Howard Brooks, who weren't even on the hearing's witness list. more ›

Yesterday, we considered Mary Cheh's decision to bring back her proposal to force restaurants to publicly display grades of their hygiene, a piece of legislation the Ward 3 Councilmember had previously brought to the table in 2009. We wondered if Washington restaurants, especially food trucks, needed to start fretting about the potential for having to defend itself against the quick backlash which can happen under such regulations -- but it sounds like they might not have to worry too much about it. more ›

It's getting down to the wire at the D.C. Council, where Chair and Mayor-elect Vince Gray and his 12 colleagues have continued tweaking Mayor Adrian Fenty's plan to close a $188 million budget gap for the current fiscal year. more ›

The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of maintaining the District's existing same-sex marriage legislation this morning. A 5-4 decision was handed down in the city's favor; petitioners had argued that gay marriage should be put to a voter referendum. "We cannot have initiatives on things that would discriminate or violate our human rights," said Councilmember David Catania (Ind.-At-Large) on NewsChannel 8's NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt. "I would expect that the individuals who sued the city will file a suit and try to take this matter to the Supreme Court for an ultimate resolution," Catania added, while also noting that the city has has approved nearly 1,000 marriage licenses per month since same-sex applications started being accepted back in March. more ›

First Hello Cupcake, and now Ben & Jerry's joins the list of dessert purveyors helping D.C. gay couples celebrate their newly granted marriage freedoms. more ›

The D.C. Council is scheduled to hold a hearing early next week to discuss legislation that would legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal uses. more ›

D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At large) is officially running for re-election. D.C. Wire reports that the former Republican-turned-Independent filed his paperwork on Friday. Catania, who holds one of the two At-large seats reserved for non-Democrats, is facing a primary challenge from Rev. Anthony Motley. Motley is often seen by the side of his close friend D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), but he's running a Michael A. Brown-style "Independent-Democrat" campaign. more ›

At last, some movement from the D.C. Council on the medical marijuana front. David Catania (I-At-large), along with nine of his colleagues, has introduced a bill that would establish a total of five medical marijuana dispensaries inside the District, as the Post reports. The bill is designed to put a 1998 voter initiative that legalized medical marijuana in D.C. finally into place; the law was never allowed to be implemented thanks to intervention by Congress, but those restrictions were lifted late last year. more ›

The D.C. Council today passed historic legislation that legalizes same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia. The bill was approved 11-2 on a second vote, and now goes to D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's desk for his signature. The mayor has promised to sign the bill. more ›

At-Large D.C. Council member David Catania (I) will introduce legislation to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, Oct. 6. more ›

Good stuff from WaPo's Tim Craig on the ongoing bickering between At-large D.C. Council member David Catania and Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry. The two men have never been the best of friends, but they've been particularly at odds since the recent revelations that Barry may have improperly directed earmarks to several non-profits that appear to have been created by and under the control of the Ward 8 council member's office. Barry has attempted to blame the news stories about the earmark controversy on leaks coming from Catania, and the discord has been bubbling up continually during this week's revised budget negotiations. more ›

Make sure to tune in to Mike DeBonis and Tim Craig, who are both posting live updates from D.C. Council chambers as a bill that would allow the District to recognize same sex marriages performed legally in other jurisdictions is debated. Apparently the full Council actually initially voted unanimously, without debate, to pass the legislation, but then Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry (D), who last week pledged to vote against the bill, asked that the bill be reconsidered because he didn't realize what he had just voted on. DeBonis is reporting that since debate began, it's gotten pretty damned heated, with Barry and Catania trading barbs about which position is more moral. more ›

Interesting story from the Post's Nikita Stewart and Tim Craig on meetings between D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At large) and Vermont state senator Peter Shumlin (D) in advance of Tuesday's near simultaneous passage of gay marriage-related bills in D.C. and Vermont. Did they plan it that way? Kinda sorta maybe. "The two men have been talking about pushing gay marriage since they met seven years ago," Stewart and Craig write. Plus, wasn't the D.C. bill sponsored by Phil Mendelson? Indeed, but D.C. Wire explains that the plan was worked out behind closed doors between Mendelson, Council chair Vincent Gray, and Catania. more ›

D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At-Large) has announced that he has accepted a position as a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). more ›

D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At-large) reassured local gay and lesbian business owners over the weekend that despite the success of initiatives like Prop 8 in California and other states, he's confident that a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia will pass the D.C. Council next year. more ›

The 911 phone call placed by At-large Council member David Catania last week -- the one during which he claims he received "badgering treatment," but the 911 office said he was frantic and unintelligible -- has been released by WTOP. more ›