Last Friday was the second of five dates (January 31, March 10, June 10, July 31 and August 10) on which declared candidates for public office in the District have to detail their fundraising efforts and campaign expenditures. Last we checked, Adrian Fenty and Linda Cropp were fundraising like champions, helping make the race the most expensive in District history, with more than $2.3 million raised by the five mayoral candidates as of mid-February. The…

Baseball Deal Reached: Dust off those would-be Washington Nationals relics: Anthony Williams and Linda Cropp are friends again! The mayor and District Council chairman reached a deal last night that is putting the dream of returning Major League Baseball to the District of Columbia back on track. Cropp, who is pushing for a privately financed stadium, will yield on her demands somewhat. The Post reports: Under the new proposal, which the 13-member council is to…

Didn’t we say there were going to be more sparks on the horizon? D.C. Council Chairman Linda Cropp used her power as chairman to postpone consideration of the proposal to publicly finance a new baseball stadium for two weeks, meaning that at all the drama in the run-up to today’s vote will be dragged out for the better part of the remainder of November. Cropp says she is cooking up an alternative to Mayor Anthony…

Lots of stadium news as the day of the D.C. City Council vote on the baseball stadium proposal is here. The Post reports that Mayor Anthony Williams has lined up enough votes to get his proposal for a South Capitol Street stadium passed by the council. The two crucial votes, Ward 1’s Jim Graham (left) and Ward 8’s Sandy Allen, have been secured. In exchange for their support, Williams will fund library improvements (Graham’s request)…

Just a few days after the chairman of the D.C. City Council, Linda Cropp, introduced a new plan to build a new baseball stadium adjacent to RFK Stadium, it appears that her plan is dead in the water as she doesn’t have the votes to push the measure through, the Post reports. But she says that Mayor Anthony William’s plan to build a new stadium on South Capitol Street lacks critical votes as well. With…