In an email to its membership, MoveOn.org accidentally insinuated that the District of Columbia is a fully-fledged state with its very own bicameral legislature with the power to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution. more ›

As of recent there's been plenty of debate over whether D.C. bars should be able to stay open later or if the alcohol excise tax should be raised, but broader changes in the city's liquor laws are coming down the pike. more ›

D.C. restaurant owners are doubly angered with the D.C. Council after a committee voted yesterday to reject Mayor Vince Gray's proposal to allow bars to stay open later and but endorse an increase in the alcohol excise tax. more ›

A proposal for D.C. bars to stay open for an extra hour on weekdays and weekends was voted down by a D.C. Council committee this afternoon, though extended hours for liquor stores were approved. more ›

The national liquor lobby came out yesterday against a proposal to raise D.C.'s alcohol excise tax as a means to raise $20 million for city coffers. more ›

Want bars to stay open later? Want to buy liquor on Sundays? Neither of those ideas look like they're going to happen, but you could get stuck paying more for each drink. more ›

Former Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. could spend nearly four years in prison when he is sentenced Thursday for stealing more than $353,000 from a District program earmarked for youth sports. more ›

Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) doesn't like Mayor Vince Gray's proposal to allow bars to stay open for an extra hour, but he may replace it with an initiative that would allow liquor stores to open on Sundays. more ›

The fight over extending hours for D.C. bars and liquor stores heated up yesterday as civic activists complained at a D.C. Council hearing of the potential of increased noise, crime and drunken driving. Still, a compromise might be possible. more ›

Ahead of a hearing next week on a proposal to extend bar hours to 3 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends, D.C.'s restaurant lobby has come to a not-so-surprising conclusion: they really like the idea. more ›

At a D.C. Council hearing this morning, Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) further laid out his opposition to a proposal in Mayor Vince Gray's budget that would allow bars to stay open for an extra hour on weekdays and weekends. more ›

A proposal by Mayor Vince Gray to extend bar and liquor store hours is facing some skepticism from members of the D.C. Council, threatening the $5.3 million in revenue it has promised to pour into city coffers next year. more ›

Police arrested a suspect in a March 11 shooting at the IHOP in Columbia Heights neighborhood in which the victim was the subject of anti-gay harassment, Mayor Gray and D.C. Police Chief Lanier announced Monday. more ›

Nearly 700 people marched through the streets last night in response to recent violent crimes targeting gay and transgender victims. The march garnered the attention of D.C. Council members and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. more ›

Galvanized by recent anti-gay hate crimes, several hundred activists are planning to a rally and march tonight in support of the victims. About 600 people so far have signed up on the event's Facebook page. more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Thursday evening it is making headway in investigations of three recent violent crimes in which two victims were gay men and another was a transgender woman. more ›

A group of activists milled about outside the Wilson Building this morning urging elected officials to raise funding for the District's social safety-net programs in the coming budget for fiscal year 2013. more ›

Ten journalists-turned-comedians took to the stage and tested their wit at last night's fourth annual Commedia dell Media. The verdict? Many of them could in fact quit their day jobs. (If stand-up were any more stable and lucrative than their chosen professions.) Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) and actual professional comedian Dennis Regan were on hand to deliver American Idol-style instant feedback and crown the best in show. more ›

Given how badly 2011 went, Mayor Vince Gray better believe in symbolic new beginnings. But no number of attempts to reset his administration can mollify his most fervent opponents, who will seek to recall him from office this year. more ›

Despite the fact that the U.S. Postal Service will likely lose another $5 billion in 2012, any plans to shut down post offices will be met with a fight -- especially by members of Congress. Locally, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is claiming some wins. more ›

Would eliminating the need to monitor people over the age of 18 improve the performance of the city's chronically troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services? Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) thinks so. more ›

In an email sent to constituents last night, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham reported that the U.S. Post Office located at 1915 14th Street NW will be closing on December 31. more ›

During a press conference held earlier today outside the Lincoln Theatre, the financially-strapped venue's board of directors unleashed several criticisms. Perhaps the loudest were about Mayor Vince Gray, who they claimed was refusing to take a meeting with them regarding the theater's funding situation. more ›

Representatives from the Lincoln Theatre's board of directors made their case in front of the historic theater this afternoon: without a $500,000 boost in operational funds from the city at the beginning of the 2012 fiscal year, they would likely be forced to close at the end of the year. more ›

UPDATE: It appears there will be an emergency board meeting at the Lincoln tonight at 6 p.m. Graham adds that the situation "looks bleak," though he now tells Tom Sherwood that he didn't specify when the theater would close due to its financial difficulties. more ›

The Examiner's Kytja Weir reports today that six of Metro's top executives and 116 Metro employees have access to a pool of take-home vehicles, some of whom use them to get to and from work, others not. 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 ›

Ted Loza, a former aide to D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham who pled guilty to a federal charge of accepting an illegal gratuity in February, was sentenced to eight months in prison this afternoon. more ›

UPDATE (7:00 p.m.): According to Patrick Madden, WAMU reporter, Councilman Jim Graham is saying the intended target is the same target of a shooting in February that killed 18-year-old Lucki Pannell as she was sitting on her porch in Columbia Heights. more ›

Some pretty damning video here: Ted Loza, the former Jim Graham chief of staff who pled guilty to felony bribery charges in February, is clearly seen on tape accepting money from an FBI informant outside the District's city hall. more ›