The District would join a small number of jurisdictions — including neighboring Hyattsville and Takoma Park — that lets non-citizens vote.

John Oliver takes on D.C. voting rights.

Norton says she expects “the strongest attack ever on the District of Columbia and its local laws during this appropriations process.”

Raleigh, North Carolina’s Heads on Sticks came about as a side project of Birds of Avalon’s bassist David Mueller. An established musician and producer in his own right, Mueller sought to explore the psychedelic sounds that have influenced him. “I wouldn’t know where to start,” said Mueller when asked to ascribe a genre to this project. Kindred spirits are hard to nail down, but upon listening it’s difficult to not draw comparisons to fellow Raleigh natives Future Islands. Maybe it’s something in the water?

Good morning, Washington. It’s a somber Sunday. A cultural celebration in the District turned violent yesterday when one man was fatally shot and three other people were wounded at the Caribbean Carnival near Gresham Place and Georgia Avenue NW. NBC Washington reports that there were at least two shooters.

A Saturday afternoon rally for D.C. voting rights at the White House was capped off by the arrest of 12 people, bringing to 73 the number of residents and advocates that have been arrested since April.

Nice message, terrible timing.

Today, the D.C. Republican Party sent a letter to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in which it encouraged her “to work with the new Republican Congress, build a working relationship with the new leadership and reach out to freshmen House Republicans toward a goal of obtaining DC Voting Rights.”

Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.) Anyone who is involved in the fight for D.C. voting rights is likely often frustrated. Now some activists are now taking those frustrations directly to their source. At noon today, residents and D.C. voting rights advocates organized by DC Vote will walk into the office of Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.) and forcefully tell his staff that they want him to stay out of the city’s business. Childers is one of…

Photo by cmoaknd Looking back on my end-of-the-year reviews of the D.C. voting rights movement from 2006 and 2007, there was a trend in my thinking on the issue and the progress it was making — I always assumed the coming year would be the one. That held for 2009. With a Democratic president who had pledged his support for D.C. statehood during the campaign and Democratic majorities in both the House and the…