D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is reviving legislation that would allow public housing tenants to follow state, not federal, marijuana law.
A new statue is heading to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol — but it’s not either of the long-requested two statues to represent the District of Columbia. Alabama has decided to replace one of its two statues, of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, a former congressman, Confederate general and professor who advocated for free universal education, with one of Helen Keller, the famed Socialist Party activist and the first deaf and blind…
Are you a resident of Washington, D.C. and looking for a new job? D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is hosting her 10th annual Norton Job Fair, at the Washington Convention Center’s Hall C on Tuesday, July 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. You need to show proof of D.C. residency to attend (either a valid D.C. driver’s license, or picture ID plus a utility bill with your address), the idea being to give D.C….
>> In case you missed this story in the Washington Post this morning, it seems another one of D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s favorite long-term projects, expanding the District’s Home Rule Charter to give the District budget and legislative autonomy, is actually getting some play up on the Hill. We can’t even count how many times she’s introduced bills like the two currently before the House, but it’s been at least 15 years since Congress…
Via Free Ride, which is running a photo we’re totally envious of depicting Mayor Adrian Fenty with a mile-wide grin and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton with what can only be described as a growl-like expression at Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the D.C. Voting Rights Act, it’s worth clarifying a change to the Senate version of bill for the sake of the ongoing conversation we’ve been having about its constitutionality. According to this morning’s Roll…
In a story perfectly designed to be a confluence of topics of interest perhaps only to the DCist staff, WTOP reported yesterday evening that HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, who we told you on Friday has been selected to be the commencement speaker at the University of the District of Columbia this weekend, has reportedly come out against the D.C. Voting Rights Act. Jackson is well known for speaking out about his Republican Party’s failure to…
Welcome back to work, Washington. It’s the Monday after a jam-packed weekend of fun for many of us, and we understand as well as you do that there’s nothing so disheartening as reporting to your desk knowing that good times won’t be in sight again for another five full days. It is therefore in the spirit of distraction that we present to you the weekend’s funniest, and yet saddest headline for you to mull over…
This week we’d like to congratulate the -ist network’s Mother Hen, Gothamist’s Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine’s Wired Rave Award. If that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that’s right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making…
With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay…
The nation is still transfixed on the latest coming out of Blacksburg, especially the startling images and words that have come out of the package Cho Seung-Hui apparently sent to NBC News between his two shooting sprees. It’s also of course talking about the day’s two biggest stories coming out of Washington: The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the so-called partial-birth abortion ban, and the start of Congressional testimony by embattled Attorney General Alberto…
