Jan 31, 2013
Ted Leonsis Apologizes for the Wizards Sucking
The Wizards’ owner wants to let fans know he’s sorry the team is so rotten this season.
Jan 31, 2013
Metro Apologizes for Green Line Calamity
After some 2,000 customers aboard Green Line trains were stranded during yesterday evening’s rush hour commute, Metro General Manager Richard Sarles offered an apology for the nightmarish trip home.
Rob Parker, the ESPN commentator who was suspended last week over comments he made questioning the “blackness” of ‘Skins quarterback Robert Griffin III offered an apology today.
May 25, 2012
Barry Apologizes for Offending Polish Americans During Meeting Where He Apologized to Offended Asian Americans
After apologizing yesterday to Asian Americans for offending them, Marion Barry went ahead and offended Polish Americans. Today, he apologized to them.
Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) is set to join a coalition of Asian American groups for a press conference tomorrow at a church in Anacostia, where the mayor-for-life is expected to address derogatory comments about Asian American businesses and Filipino nurses he made in April.
Apr 26, 2012
Asian American Groups Ask Barry to Apologize
Twenty-eight local and national Asian American advocacy groups launched a campaign yesterday asking Councilmember Marion Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) to apologize for comments he made earlier this week about Filipino nurses at local hospitals.
An update to our earlier post about a Safeway employee who called a gay couple “faggots” while they were shopping at the chain’s Waterfront store last weekend, then was videotaped offering a half-hearted apology — the employee has been fired, and the grocer has apologized.
Jun 16, 2011
Safeway Cashier Apologizes For Using Gay Slur
In yesterday’s Go Home Already, we noted a story in the Metro Weekly about a gay D.C. couple who were called “faggots” by a cashier at the Waterfront Safeway last weekend. The magazine has since followed up by publishing this video, in which the cashier apologizes for using the slur.
A cauldron of political activity and protest, a venue for gender politics discourse and a theater for civil disobedience. Obviously, I could only be talking about our baseball stadium.
Feb 23, 2010
Marion Barry Says He’s Sorry
He doesn’t think he did anything illegal, but Marion Barry has apologized for failing to use what he termed “good judgment” when he hired girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighthaupt under a personal services contract with his office, WRC/NBC4 reports. At a press conference this afternoon at the Union Temple Baptist Church, Barry insisted that there was “no violation of conflict of interest, there was a violation of law of good sense and law of sound judgment.”…