With just over a week before the D.C. Department of Health is scheduled to grant licenses for medical marijuana cultivation centers, the D.C. Council today passed legislation forcing a cultivator to move out of a location along Benning Road NE in Ward 7. more ›

There's less than a month to go before the April 3 primary, and incumbents and challengers alike are preparing to get voters to the polls. Yesterday they showed off their bank rolls, hinting as to whether they'll emerge victorious or not come election day. more ›

The balloon effect seems to apply to the District's efforts to crack down on prostitution, writes WAMU reporter David Schultz in a must-read piece today. Crack down in one place, and it'll simply appear elsewhere. more ›

The Post has got some intimate details on why a candidate for the Ward 7 seat on the D.C. Council was arrested in December, while the City Paper went ahead and Xtranormalized it. more ›

According to both the Post and City Paper, Ward 7 D.C. Council hopeful Kevin Chavous, Jr. was arrested late last week for allegedly soliciting a prostitute. more ›

Good morning, Washington. Perfect. That’s what the Washington Capitals remain. In a matchup with the Detroit Red Wings Saturday night -- only the second time in NHL history two teams with records of at least 5-0 faced off -- the Capitals popped seven goals on 25 shots, securing a 7-1 victory over the Red Wings and launching the team into the venerated spot of being only the fifth in league history to start a season 7-0-0. more ›

Ron Moten, the Peaceaholics co-founder who had made overtures about running for the D.C. Council seat currently held by Councilmember Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7), now tells the Washington Post that he is planning on running -- as a Republican. more ›

Many wars have been fought over contested borders and boundaries, and two small technical errors written into the District's recent redistricting could well have pitted four wards against each other in epic showdowns over territory and treasure. more ›

In recent weeks, a number of new candidates have jumped into local D.C. races, challenging just about every incumbent up for re-election. more ›

Bill Turque reports that on Wednesday, District officials will cut the ribbon on the new $102 million H.D. Woodson Senior High School in Ward 7 and bid adieu to the campus Turque writes had "the look and feel of a penal institution rather than a high school." more ›

This afternoon, the District's Office of Campaign Finance released the results of an investigation into allegedly improper campaign spending by D.C. Councilmember Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7). The report found that Alexander did use her constituent services fund to fund her reelection campaign, but cleared her of other charges. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, the D.C. Council gave preliminary approval to a revised redistricting plan after a pair of high-profile amendments to the plan failed to garner the votes needed to enact changes. more ›

According to several media reports, a revision of the D.C. Council's redistricting plan will make some rather large changes from the previous version. more ›

First Lady Michelle Obama had been planning on getting out into the Washington community this afternoon and doing some work on a habitat improvement project led by the Anacostia Watershed Society at Fort Dupont Park in Ward 7. more ›

The cavalcade of various financial issues plaguing D.C. Councilmembers continues unabated: the Washington Times reports that the phones at Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander's constituent services office on 2524 Pennsylvania Avenue SE were recently turned off because the office ran up $5,388.68 in unpaid phone bills to Verizon. more ›

Though last night's Ward 7 town hall was a homecoming of sorts for Vince Gray, the audience packed into the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church peppered the presumptive mayor-elect with the type of questions he could have expected when he represented the ward on the D.C. Council. Few were the questions on broad policy matters, replaced instead with personal appeals and retail politics. more ›

Jason Cherkis broke down the most recent set of crime data from MPD on Friday, and his findings were disturbing. While the number of hate crimes -- or, perhaps more accurately, the number of reported hate crimes -- have remained stagnant over the last three years, hate crimes involving sexual orientation have skyrocketed in Wards 7 and 8, compared to 2008. Wards 7 and 8, eh? Cherkis goes ahead and makes the negative connection which immediately springs to mind: Councilmembers Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) and Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) were the only two nay votes last Tuesday when same-sex marriage legislation passed the Council. On the flip side, the uptick might actually be a positive sign that police officers are actually beginning to rightfully report these types of crimes as hate crimes. Obviously, with such crimes, one must consider a veritable black hole of incredibly sensitive factors, so narrowing down one specific conclusion from such a small amount of data is always going to be a challenge. So what can we narrow down? He was talking about politics, but Bishop Harry Jackson's promise of "bloodletting" in retribution for the legislation's success certainly looks even worse than it did when it was printed next to his name. more ›

As anyone who has ever tried to get to H Street NE without a car knows, the area isn’t terribly accessible. Visitors to the area are often faced with a long walk from Union Station, trying to figure out the X2 bus schedule, or the often difficult task of finding a cab back at the end of the night. But all of that is has now changed. more ›