Residents have sought for years to remove the name of Francis G. Newlands from the Chevy Chase park.
Yesterday, news broke that Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) had introduced an amendment to a defense bill that would have forced the move of the District’s New Beginnings Youth Development Center — our 60-bed youth detention facility — from its current location in Laurel to a plot of land on the existing Walter Reed Army Medical Center which will be turned over to the city for re-development next year. Without the move, Cardin warned, he’d stop the city from getting a 62.5-acre parcel that will be re-developed into retail space, residences, offices, and even two charter schools.
Yesterday afternoon the Senate unanimously approved Mayor Adrian Fenty’s school takeover legislation. The vote finally came after three separate holds were placed, and then quickly lifted, by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and at the very final hour, Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) placed the third Senate hold on the bill. Levin removed the hold after speaking with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. Now the bill only awaits approval from President Bush, who…
It’s a drizzly Thursday morning out there, D.C., and it seems like every … single … local news headline … we’ve run across has to do with this Tuesday’s election. Rest assured, we’ll have DCist’s own election guide for you later this afternoon, but we’ll also have plenty of our regular music, food and other odd goodies. Because lord knows we could all stand a break from the Midterm Midtacular (hat tip to The Daily…
Happy Halloween, Washington! We love this holiday. It’s an excellent excuse to gorge on candy, dress up like an idiot and generally have a spookily good time. Besides, it’s the last celebration before the holidays begin to feel like thinly-veiled attempts to pretend that it isn’t actually cold and awful outside. Steele Gets Some Democrats’ Endorsement: It appears that some African-American Democrats in Maryland are unhappy with their party’s nominee for Senate — and have…
