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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.

Dec 19, 2012

ESPN Commentator Suspended Over RGIII Comments Offers Apology

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.

May 23, 2012

Is He Sorry? Barry to Join Asian American Groups at Press Conference Tomorrow

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.

Jun 16, 2011

Safeway Employee Who Used Gay Slur Fired, Grocer Apologizes

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.

Aug 16, 2010

I Was A Baseball Anarchist, But The Politics Were Too Convenient

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.”…

 
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