Good morning, Washington. The first weekend in December debuts, and it’s going to be sunny and mild with temperatures rising to about 50 by the afternoon. Sans the October snowstorm, the start of the winter season hasn’t been too bad. more ›

The second piece of big Walmart-related news to be revealed in the last few days, courtesy of Michael Neibauer: the retailer and the District have come to terms on a citywide community benefits agreement which outlines several conditions regarding Walmart's six proposed D.C. stores. more ›

As debate over Walmart's plans to construct six total stores in the District heats up, we figured it would be worth noting some of the raw figures involved in the discussion. more ›

As we noted yesterday, Walmart will add two more stores to its existing plans to construct four in the District in the coming years. Not surprisingly, that has some people very happy, and others very concerned. more ›

Big retail and development news tonight from the Washington Post's Nikita Stewart, who reports that tomorrow, Walmart and Mayor Vince Gray will announce the retailer's plans to build two more stores in upcoming years, in addition to four already-planned outlets. more ›

Good morning, Washington. Physical discomfort is part of the Halloween ritual. A masked night out involves harsh fabric, pore-suffocating makeup and limited mobility. It does not usually involve the raw ache of near freezing temperatures. But on Saturday, the Washington area was cold and white, met with an early season storm that covered the region in a mix of sleet and snow. more ›

Two of the four Walmarts planned inside the District's borders have cleared a major hurdle, clearing a review from the city's Office of Planning enabling them to move forward with construction as soon as permits from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs can be obtained. more ›

This morning, the District is expected to announce the donation of $3 million from the charitable arm of Walmart to establish job training programs around the city -- another in a series of donations which will serve to market the store as a stakeholder in the District. more ›

A word to the wise for those who might be considering knocking off work a little bit early today and taking a trip to the Kogod Courtyard or to a matinee at Gallery Place: a pro-labor organization has planned a protest of Walmart at the company's lobbying office on 8th Street NW this afternoon. more ›

One lucky Walmart manager now has his or her Dante Hicks moment. more ›

Sure, there's an anti-Walmart crowd inside the District of Columbia. But those people are only thinking about important things like fair labor rates, land use and the destruction of small businesses! Good thing the Wall Street Journal is here to remind us that a Walmart is the premier venue to showcase any region's unique brand of insanity. more ›

Ever since the District's sole licensed gun dealer went out of business earlier this year, residents have been unable to purchase handguns. Two different proposals offered today seek to remedy that. more ›

Kids looking for summer work in the District find they’re the latest victims of the city’s ongoing budget crisis. more ›

Remember when we wondered how Walmart would react to Mayor Vince Gray's "build at Skyland or don't build at all" ultimatum? Today, the Big Blue Box announced that it's planning on opening up a location near National Harbor in Prince George’s County, reports Jonathan O'Connell. more ›

The District government's trip to Vegas for this year's International Council of Shopping Centers annual conference is in the books -- but the city's leaders aren't holding to the overplayed maxim regarding what happens there. The Post's Jonathan O'Connell has the big scoop this morning: Mayor Vince Gray informed representatives from Walmart during the conference that if they won't build an anchor store at the long-vacant Skyland Town Center, they can forget about building the other four stores they've planned inside the District. more ›

During today's legislative meeting of the D.C. Council, a protester interrupted proceedings with a tirade against Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser regarding the construction of a Walmart in that ward. (A community activism group called Ward Four Thrives had been demonstrating outside the chambers this morning -- check out some video of the tail end of the incident after the jump.) The incident was rather quickly forgotten -- after all, protesters have interrupted the Council before, and with testy budget hearings looming, they will most certainly interrupt them again in the future. more ›

This morning, Mayor Vince Gray spent an hour on the set of NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt -- but he wasn't offering up a whole lot of news. more ›

During an appearance on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt this morning, Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. addressed a number of different topics: education, taxicab medallions, the ethics of the Council and the Vince Gray administration. But the bulk of the conversation centered around Walmart's inroads into the District. Thomas has been a reliable supporter of the Big Blue Box, but it turns out that he's got much grander plans than simply lobbying for the store to open several locations inside D.C.'s borders. more ›

Good morning, D.C. Hope you're recovering from yesterday's high winds. Today seems to be pretty calm on the weather front, mild temperatures and some sun. Tomorrow looks even better with a high around 60. Am I the only one ready for Spring weather already? more ›

There's enough pushback against Walmart entering the Washington market as it is -- but one can only imagine what the response would be like if the retailer wanted to sell guns at four locations inside the District. Since Walmart announced its plans to open up shop in Washington last November, some have wondered how the gun-friendly retailer would cope with the District's strict gun regulations. After all, if Walmart was interested in selling firearms in the District like it does in Maryland and Virginia, it'd involve a whole lot more than simply filling a space with some shotguns, rifles and ammo and slapping on some price tags. more ›

While D.C. is busy protesting the arrival of four Wal-Marts within the District lines by showing up at a developer's home, Virginia residents are taking it a step further by challenging a proposed store in court. The proposed store, near the Wilderness Battlefield, is drawing ire from local residents and area preservationists who believe the store will undercut the historic value of battlefield. more ›

On the same day that Walmart's PR efforts got a huge boost from First Lady Michelle Obama's endorsement of the company's plan to sell healthier foods, 25 people affiliated with the group Walmart-Free D.C. peacefully gathered to protest the arrival of four -- possibly even five -- outlets of the retail behemoth in the District. But instead of demonstrating at one of the possible Walmart locations or making their opinions known to members of the D.C. Council, the protesters descended on the Woodley Park home of Dick Knapp, an executive at Foulger-Pratt, the company that is set to develop the Georgia Avenue Walmart. more ›

Via The Consumerist, we're informed that the world's smallest Walmart has opened on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. With so many people in this town biting their nails and fretting over what kind of physical footprint the behemoth retailer will leave inside the District, we thought we'd note that the four planned Walmarts in the District -- all of which will be approximately half the size of a typical Walmart at between 80,000 and 120,000 square feet -- will still be over 22 times the size of that new Fayetteville Walmart (only about 3,500 square feet). more ›

Sure, there are other anti-Walmart groups popping up around town, but this is the only one we know of which features a smiley face feasting on the District flag. I mean, just look at that logo! And wait...is the flag supposed to be bleeding? I'm going to go ahead and guess that was intentional. more ›

Brace yourself: the first Walmart rendering is out, and it actually looks...good. In addition to reporting on the retail behemoth's concession "to consider an array of layouts, designs and parking arrangements," the Post's Jonathan O'Connell did the internets a favor yesterday and shared three high-quality renderings of the proposed Walmart which would be constructed at 801 New Jersey Avenue NW. more ›

There sure are a lot of opinions floating around concerning Walmart in the District. But with the company asking that residents of the District pledge allegiance to its mission to sprout up in the city, I thought we'd do everyone a favor and annotate the company's corporate-speak so that we can all really understand what it means. more ›

The hot topics of the week in local politics have been, without a doubt, welfare and Walmart -- and while Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry has been on the warpath regarding the former, his views on the latter hadn't really surfaced. Until this morning, that is, when Barry made an appearance on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt. more ›

UPDATE (6:35 p.m.): As reported minutes ago in the Washington Post, Walmart has announced that they plan to open four locations in the District. The four sites will be located at the former Curtis Chevrolet along Georgia Avenue NW, the intersection of New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road NE; inside a new mixed-use development on New Jersey Avenue NW and at the intersection of East Capitol Street and 58th Street SE. The company says that they hope to open the stores, which would employ 1,200 people, by 2012. more ›

Will us Washingtonians finally get the chance to submit our hilariously crazy images to People of Walmart? Maybe! more ›