After four months, Emily Miller finally got her gun. But the Washington Times scribe and D.C. resident isn't content just basking in her newfound status as a gun owner -- she wants to make the process easier for everyone else. more ›

Emily Miller is finally going to get her gun, and she wants to tell the D.C. Council how difficult the whole process was. more ›

Washington Times opinion editor Emily Miller is back with another installment of her quest to own a handgun while living in the District. This time, there's paperwork to be done! more ›

Alright, I'll admit it. I wasn't maniacally refreshing the Washington Times website early this morning. Fortunately, the folks over at SocialStudiesDC were, as they were able to catch this headline gaffe of massive proportions. more ›

In yesterday's Morning Roundup, DCist noted that Washington Times Senior Editor Emily Miller was reporting on the process of getting a gun in D.C. by going through it herself. Later that afternoon, TBD's Ryan Kearney parodied Miller's first-hand account, prefacing his spoof by calling Miller's attempt to buy a gun "willfully ignorant." more ›

* And of course, by a "large majority of people," I mean "a large majority of Washington Times readers -- a sizable number of which are people who were encouraged to stuff the ballot by people who don't live in the District of Columbia, but really like playing online poker -- approve of legalizing online poker." more ›

The great media redesign movement of 2010 continues unabated -- but unlike their competitors at the Washington Post and City Paper, the Washington Times isn't satisfied with a mere redesign; no, they're marking the season by actually getting back to being an legitimate newspaper, with sports, arts, and local news sections and home delivery. more ›

Now, I didn't attend Medill or anything, but I'd like to think that I have enough common sense to know that publishing an editorial which suggests killing a controversial public figure is a poor decision. But the Washington Times apparently doesn't have any problem with it. 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 ›

Yesterday, we noted that the Washington Times was on its death bed, having only been saved by a last-minute offer to purchase the paper. This morning, the City Paper's Dave McKenna postulated that perhaps the shadowy figure behind the bid was none other than Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder. more ›

With all the hubbub about the launch of TBD, the barely-floating wreckage that is the Washington Times has been widely ignored over the past couple of months. But DCRTV reports today that the paper's last rites have all but been delivered -- according to the blog's sources, the Times was lucky to even make it past last Friday, as a "press release [regarding the last edition of the paper] was reportedly ready for distribution when an apparent last minute and revised offer to buy the paper was submitted." more ›

To say that the President-less, sports section-less, layoff-happy Washington Times is in trouble would be akin to saying that Wile E. Coyote is just an underachiever -- that is, an understatement of Biblical proportions. more ›

Politico's Patrick Gavin had it right all along -- Washington Times President and Publisher Jonathan Slevin is leaving the troubled newspaper after only six months on the job. In a letter to friends and colleagues Sunday, Slevin confirmed that his contract will not be renewed after it expires on April 30. more ›

It's been a tough week for sports media in Washington, D.C. -- first, the loss of one of the region's pioneering newsmen, and now, the rumored demise of the Washington Times sports desk appears to be at hand at last, possibly as early as Friday. News of the closing really began to spread over the last 48 hours, and this morning, the Post reports that the Times' beat writers for the Capitals and Redskins did not travel to away games this week, a sure sign that reporters and editors are assuming they won't be employed through the weekend. more ›

• Now that main roads are cleared, residential neighborhoods are the focus for clean-up — the D.C. snow team will be out until 8 p.m. tonight. more ›

To: "twteveryone@washingtontimes.com" more ›

Tom already told you about Tim Craig's story in today's Washington Post, which outlines how D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray used council stationery to solicit a $20,000 contribution from Comcast to help pay for Democratic Party activities at last year's national convention. But potentially even worse news for Gray also came today in the form of this story by Washington Times reporter Jeffrey Anderson, which alleges that some questionable work was performed on Gray's Hillcrest home by developer William C. Smith & Co. – a huge company that has a long list of contracts with the District government, and doesn't usually offer basic home repair services. more ›

Meet Walter Carl Abbott, Jr. He's the kind of Lou Dobbs-loving, manly-man Maryland construction worker who blames everything that's wrong in this country on illegal immigrants. In fact, he feels so strongly about illegal immigration that last year, he decided to send an email to Gov. Martin O'Malley about it. Unfortunately for Abbott, the email included this phrase: "If I ever get close enough to you I will [w]rap my hands around your throat and strangle the life from you." Whoops! more ›

Looks like there's been a major change in leadership over the weekend at the Washington Times. This morning, the paper put out a news release announcing that President and publisher Thomas McDevitt, CFO Keith Cooperrider and Chairman Dong Moon Joo have all been fired, while former VP Jonathan Slevin has been named Acting President and Publisher. The news comes less than a month after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon handed over day-to-day control of the Unification Church, which owns the Times, to his three sons. more ›

You gotta love the Washington Times for splashing this story across the top of their local coverage today: "EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police probe officers' Facebook pages" reads the headline, with the subhead, "Complaint cites degradation of women, hedonism." Apparently a couple of officers are "members" of a public group on Facebook called the "Make-it-Rain Foundation for Underprivileged Hoes," which we gather means these guys want it to be known that they are fans of going to strip clubs. Talk about a snoozefest. But wait, there's more!

One of the three men also listed himself as a member of the "He-Man Woman Hater's Club" and founded a Facebook group called "Passed Out in Trashcans" - a three-member group geared toward "anyone else that has woken up from a long night of drinking to find themselves in the trashcan."

At the beginning of June, the Washington Times launched a fancy redesign of their web site to incorporate a lot of overdue Web 2.0 features, like 400,000 specialized news feeds by topic (neat) and a bunch of new video and audio features (sure, OK). They also moved their nearly nonexistent local coverage into the A section, which we hoped might mean a new emphasis on local news, but so far that hasn't been the case. more ›

Earlier this year, newly minted Washington Times EIC John Solomon began making changes at his new place of employ. His first move was to bring an end to some of the Times' most sacred traditions: like deploying scare-quotes around the word "marriage" when preceded by the word "gay," and belittling a major national political figure and presidential nominee by referring to her constantly with her first name. Also, they resolved to be slightly less douchey to immigrants and stuff. And, as we learned earlier this week, Solomon is poised to undertake a staff realignment -- old talent trimmed, new talent brought in -- that he promises to be "expeditious and fair, even-handed and humane," especially to the people being hired. more ›

City Desk apparently has a fantastic set of sources inside the newsrooms of the District's two main competing newspapers, and today they bring us updates on the layoffs that have been hitting the industry at almost every level. more ›

The AP via Baltimore's WJZ-TV reports the issue of same-sex marriage rights in Maryland will pop up again next week. This time around, it's the state legislature and not the courts who get to rule on the matter. more ›

Good morning, Washington. The week surrounding the holidays is almost always a certifiably slow news period, so you can bet good money every local media outlet in the country is shamefacedly relieved to be able to find their own angle on the terrifying fatal San Francisco Zoo tiger attack. Sister site SFist has the roundup of Bay Area coverage, and the Examiner steps up to the plate with the D.C. version of the story -- the National Zoo is "prepared to finetune safety protocols." Phew! More scintillating post-Christmas reporting below. more ›

With point guard Antonio Daniels out for 2-4 weeks with a sprained knee, the Washington Wizards were more than shorthanded going into Saturday night's game against the visiting Sacramento Kings. Rookie Nick Young started in Daniels' spot in the back court and scored five of the team's first seven points, but it was the hot hand of DeShawn Stevenson that led the Wizards to a 92-79 win. more ›

The Washington Times is reporting that the number of tickets issued by the MPD to drivers using cell phones without a hands free device has increased for the third straight year. In the first year after the law was enacted in mid-2004, the city dished out 7523 tickets. The following year the number rose to 8,358. This year, it's 9,484. The numbers raise a host of questions about the efficacy and enforcement of this law.... more ›

As we are still recovering from the gluttony that was Thanksgiving, and since it was pretty slow news week in, well, everything, we are light on the transit news, too. But first, which D.C. Council Member likes to ignore laws? You get one guess and the answer is after the jump. Photo by AlbinoFlea... more ›