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 ›

More details are coming to light in the violent escape of a teenager from New Beginnings Youth Correctional Facility in Laurel on Sunday night -- and, as expected, the incident is causing many to question the overall efficacy of the facility and the capability of the District's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to manage it. more ›

UPDATE: Here's the official statement from MPD regarding the incident, which confirms Graham's version of events and confirms that the 17-year-old was taken into custody. more ›

Sure, let's get totally crazy! Sinclair Skinner, the Adrian Fenty confidant who was a key figure in the D.C. Council's special investigation into the city's recreation construction contracts, sent out a long and winding press release this afternoon, calling for an investigation into Jim Graham's role in the Ted Loza bribery scandal. more ›

Because D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham's got two -- and they can be all yours, if the price is right. Graham, who has been complaining about the way that the Council's tickets to events at the Verizon Center were being doled out by Council Chairman Kwame Brown, put his Council tickets for tonight's Gaga concert up for auction on eBay. more ›

Former Jim Graham chief of staff Ted Loza pled guilty this afternoon to two charges of accepting gratuities and one charge of filing a false statement. more ›

Ted Loza, former chief of staff to Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, is reportedly scheduled to appear in court for a plea hearing this afternoon. The hearing will be held at 3 p.m. more ›

In July 2009, Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham introduced a resolution to rename the then-recently renovated community space at 14th and Girard Streets NW as "Barack Hussein Obama Park." DCist commenters immediately took umbrage, dubbing such a dedication as a "smidge too soon" and suggesting, as y'all are wont to do, your own suggestions about what the little park should be called. more ›

A crowd of approximately 100 people were hungry this morning. Hungry for pancakes. A line snaked around the entrance to the new IHOP restaurant in Columbia Heights this morning, the promise of free pancakes for those with the patience to wait out the ribbon-cutting ceremony. more ›

Morning D.C. Yeah, it's chilly out there right now, but don't you worry - it will warm up into another nice autumn day. Go out there and enjoy the weather and foliage while you can. And maybe you can burn off some calories before you indulge in turkey, stuffing, and pie next week. more ›

Well, this is certainly interesting: Ellwood Thompson's owner Richard Hood told TBD this afternoon that the grocer's plans to expand into Columbia Heights are not dead, as previously reported. "We are not in default. We continue to work with the landlord to make this happen," Hood told TBD, admitting to some confusion about why Councilmember Jim Graham said that the grocery wasn't coming to the DCUSA complex. Graham had told the Washington City Paper earlier today that not only had the grocer pulled out of its plans, but that Ellwood Thompson's would "pay for this very bad decision." To be honest, based on the way that this story has unfolded over the last three years, this is probably the least surprising thing that could have happened. more ›

In an interview with Jim Graham after presumptive Mayor-elect Vince Gray's Ward 1 town hall, the councilmember expanded upon his statements at yesterday's vigil for Ali Ahmed Mohammed, indicating that not only had witnesses backed the claim that the five suspects had beaten Mohammed after he threw a brick through the club's front window, but that some of the suspects were saying as much themselves. more ›

We have obtained a transcript of a second robocall received by some Ward 1 residents. We'll spare you the gory details, but again this call contains no identifying information. The content is much more incendiary than the first. The caller accuses Jim Graham of having "a lover on the city's payroll" and tells voters "do not vote for Jim Graham." The second call also includes a reference to the taxicab bribery scandal. The Graham campaign is aware of this newest call and believes the two calls are likely from the same source. more ›

Yesterday afternoon reports came in about a robocall attacking Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham. The call was anonymous, with no message indicating who was behind it or who financed it. Last night TBD posted the audio of the call, which features a woman's voice telling the listener that Jim Graham paid for an abortion for his chief of staff's girlfriend. The narrator then goes on to describe Graham as "immoral" and "wretched." more ›

Who cares if he borrowed the script from former Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone -- this campaign video from Bryan Weaver, who's gunning for Jim Graham's Ward 1 Council seat, is pretty damn fantastic. We can't really call it positive politics, since one of the numerous highlights of the video is Weaver standing in front of Jim Graham's iconic convertible and knocking the bow-tied one -- though he never names him -- for never riding the system. But Weaver's three-point stroke on the playground and his too-adorable-for-words daughter almost makes us forget this video is about a Council campaign. more ›

Did you ever see the Tom Hanks movie, ? Of course not -- it was abysmal. Today the Washington Post reports on Yahya Wehelie, a 26-year-old Fairfax County resident and U.S. citizen who is living through something like that cinematic nightmare. Wehelie, who traveled abroad to visit Yemen to pick up a bride, now finds himself stuck in Cairo, unable to fly home because his name is now on the U.S. no-fly list. more ›

A wide range of District political candidates gathered at One Judiciary Square last night to make their case to members of D.C. for Democracy why the organization should support their candidacies in the September Democratic primary. Everyone from the mayor to would-be shadow representatives showed up to make their case. Endorsements should be handed down in the coming weeks. more ›

Because a more Grahamstanding-ready story, we could not have made up. ABC7 has the dirt on a go-go concert held last Saturday at Georgetown Day School -- school administrators did not inform MPD about the show, and so two dozen cops ended up being pulled off patrols to control a well over-capacity crowd of youths and take several reports of young people fighting and robbing other young people for tickets and other possessions. So let's see here: juvenile crime? Check. Go-go music, which Graham has certainly had his share of spats with in the past? Check. Loitering violations? Check. Geez, one hopes that none of these kids ate any Jumbo Slice before heading out to the show. more ›

Looks like ANC 1C chair Bryan Weaver's previously tentative campaign for the Ward 1 D.C. Council seat is set to become official. Weaver will join the Democratic primary race alongside former school board member Jeff Smith, both of whom are vying to unseat incumbent Jim Graham. An email went out to supporters today announcing a formal campaign kickoff event set for Saturday: more ›