That silver Jaguar with the jack under it outside the Wilson Building belongs to none other than our mayor-for-life. It's hardly the first of Marion Barry's auto woes. more ›

Who knew that city politics could be such a game? more ›

On Wednesday evening, Occupy D.C. protesters marched down to the Wilson Building, where they replaced a D.C. flag with an Occupy banner. Now they've apologized. more ›

Last night, demonstrators with Occupy DC took a march down to the District's city hall, set up shop in front and removed the D.C. flag, replacing it with an Occupy banner in a show of national solidarity. more ›

With reminders like this, who needs ethics reform? more ›

What was that "suspicious device" which shut down several blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue and placed the District's city hall under lockdown this morning? more ›

This morning, the U.S. Capitol Police shut down several roads around the Capitol, including three blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue, after discovering a suspicious package. more ›

As I type this, the D.C. Council has officially been back to work for about an hour and a half. And already, it appears as if the summer recess didn't do anything to cool the fiery relationships between many of the members. more ›

The city's local political Twitterati are all aflutter this morning about this column by Harry Jaffe in the Examiner, which proclaims Kwame Brown, but six-plus months into his tenure as Chair, as the "most powerful" leader in the Council's history. more ›

A pair of important votes went down inside the chambers of the John A. Wilson Building this afternoon. more ›

No, really: have you seen Sulaimon Brown? If so, Mary Cheh would really appreciate it if you would let her know. more ›

Earlier this month, we wondered whether Capital Bikeshare would have the capacity to handle a thousands of riders who took advantage of a deal offering a year-long membership for half-price. District Department of Transportation spokesperson John Lisle wasn't too worried about it at the time, though, telling DCist that DDOT had "a plan to expand the system to help meet that demand" which included new stations in Arlington and D.C., some of which would "be installed before the end of the month." He wasn't kidding -- during a press conference this morning, Mayor Vince Gray and transportation officials announced plans to install for several new stations around the District, including one located right in front of city hall. more ›

Sulaimon Brown apparently made an appearance inside the Wilson Building this afternoon, told reporters that he wasn't going to testify, then left as staffers for Councilmember Mary Cheh scattered to try and serve him with a subpoena. So, yeah, that happened. 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 ›

It appears as if there's a developing scene at the John A. Wilson building between reporters who are demanding to speak with Mayor Vince Gray about the Sulaimon Brown situation and the Mayor's security and police. Both WTOP's Mark Segraves and NBC4's Tom Sherwood report that a stand off has developed inside the sixth floor of the building, outside of the Mayor's office. "Wilson bldg security throwing press out of the hallway in from of mayors office," Segraves tweeted. "Press refusing to leave. Stand off." Sherwood added, "We aren't moving. Police deciding next step. Arrests?" WAMU's Patrick Madden adds that the situation was "getting tense" as "officers trying to kick all out reporter[s]." If you had money on "less than two months" in your "how long will it take for Vince Gray to lose the press?" office pool, well, you're looking pretty good to collect at the moment. Gray has scheduled a press conference at 3:15 to address the Brown scenario -- that should be very interesting, indeed. more ›

With the nation's attention squarely focused on Washington in the coming days, the D.C. Council couldn't have found a better time to make a visible statement about the city's lack of voting rights. more ›

First Union Station, now the John A. Wilson Building. The home of D.C.'s city government is celebrating its centennial tomorrow, and a new exhibit inside the building will open to the public starting at 9:45 a.m. more ›

In 2006, local artist Sondra N. Arkin was given an enviable but extremely difficult job: acquire the defining volume of works that captured the breadth and scope of D.C. art to display in HeART of DC, the City Hall Art Collection at the John A. Wilson Building. She was given funds through the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities, access to their temporary art bank, six floors of empty hallways, and mere months to make it all happen. By that October, she'd purchased 155 pieces of art and borrowed 18 from the art bank to round out the collection of D.C.'s greatest artists. more ›

Over at Huffington Post, Andrea Batista Schlesinger of the Drum Major Institute has a nice roundup of what she thinks are the best public policy initiatives of 2007. Number six on her list is the D.C. Voting Rights Act, and she has a solid grasp on why congressional representation for the District is so important:

Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C's indomitable delegate, can debate with the best of them, but without the D.C. Voting Rights Act, neither she nor anyone else D.C. residents elect to Congress can cast a binding vote. No matter that the District's population is greater than, say, Wyoming's (two senators and a representative, thank you very much) or that its residents pay taxes and serve on juries, or even that the U.S. is a signatory to international treaties guaranteeing full voting rights.

When in the closing days of 2006 we looked back on the year in D.C. voting rights, we optimistically hoped that 2007 would finally be the year that saw some movement on enfranchising the District's residents. Movement, yes; resolution, not so much. So as we wind down 2007, we're again left hoping that maybe the coming year will be the one. more ›

Christmas seems to have come early for the District. more ›

Remember those billboards that popped up in the 1980s that counted up the national debt, dollar by dollar? Pretty scary, huh? Well, District voting rights activists want something similar for their cause. Today the D.C. Council held a hearing on legislation that would allow the city to place two large LED billboards -- one outside the John A. Wilson Building and the other outside the new Washington Nationals stadium -- that would display the amount... more ›

DC for Marriage, an eight-month-old group advocating same-sex marriage rights in the District, will hold a "Marriage Equality Community Forum" tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in room 412 of the Wilson Building. This is the group's first public event, which is co-sponsored by several local LGBT organizations including the DC Center, DC Black Pride, AQUA DC, and the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, among others. Yesterday, DC for Marriage announced Sabrina Sojourner, the first open... more ›

If the powers that be think we're going to go easily or quietly, they're wrong. The Post today exposed a devious little plan to chip away at the District's identity, starting with phasing out the city's postmark and replacing it instead with one bearing the name of our northern neighbor, Maryland. According to a Post study, of 235 letters mailed from every quadrant and zip code within city limits, only 24 -- 10 percent --... more ›

Sure, it's December and we're all preoccupied with holiday cheer and making plans for that one New Year's party that will finally be worth the all the hype. But even though they've suffered some setbacks this year, D.C. voting rights activists are pushing the cause through the holiday season. On Thursday, December 6, the D.C. Council will hold a hearing to consider legislation that would place large electronic billboards outside the John A. Wilson Building... more ›

The overwhelming consensus so far at today's D.C. Council hearing on the recent theft of what looks to be $30 million-plus from the District's tax coffers? The scandal has damaged the reputation of the city government, and the council members are pissed. While most statements have clung to the nasty tidbits of information we already know (the enormity of the crime, that an auditor's warnings may have been ignored) and palliative cliches, council members provided... more ›

Given his position as chairman of the committee that oversees transportation and the D.C. Taxicab Commission, we knew headline-loving Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham wouldn't pass up an opportunity to create his own spectacle in the wake of Mayor Adrian Fenty's announcement about the transition to taxi meters. But it seems as though Graham was only able to muster up the resources to put together a 2 p.m. public roundtable at the Wilson... more ›

Perhaps Mayor Adrian Fenty has already made up his mind on the great zone vs. meter debate, and he's just waiting until tomorrow to announce his decision for dramatic effect. But we think the odds are pretty good that he's still mulling it over as we type. Wednesday, October 17 is the deadline imposed by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who inserted the provision in legislation last fall that forces Fenty to either switch to time... more ›

>> There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that Jenna Welch Bush, daughter of President and Mrs. George W. Bush, plans to honeymoon with fiancé Henry C. Hager at historic Guantanamo, Cuba. [NotionsCapital] >> When are we going to get our library? [Bloomingdale (for now)] >> Prozac needed at Wilson Building. [City Desk] >> Driving to work at NIH: teh suck. [WTOP] >> Are our iPods killing us? [RawFisher] Photo by krisetya... more ›