In the final day of the lengthy session, Virginia lawmakers approved guidelines for a new bipartisan redistricting commission and set aside funding for an investigation into systemic racism at the Virginia Military Institute.
The large pool of contenders for Virginia’s second-highest office is diverse — and skews towards the commonwealth’s northern counties.
Last year, moving a Confederate Monument from the Loudoun County Courthouse lawn was impossible. This year it’s inevitable. What changed?
Martín Miguel Fernandez says he was disappointed about the D.C. primary results and has changed political parties to run in the November election.
A newspaper in Fauquier County, Va. is dropped the “Democrat” from its title this week after more than a century because the modern political climate can’t deal with that word in the name of an objective publication.
Talk about crossing the aisle. This photograph, captured last August during the Columbia Heights Day festival at Harriet Tubman Elementary School, features recently announced At-Large Council candidates Patrick Mara, a Republican, and Bryan Weaver, a Democrat, posing after competing in the event’s cupcake eating contest.
Good morning, Washington. Well, this is it: the holidays are finally, tragically over. You’re once again sitting at your desk. And now we begin the slow, terrible death march toward spring, with only brief, inadequate celebrations of Presidents’ and MLK Day to sustain us. Stay strong, D.C. — we’ll get through this. Can You Hear Me Now? Hello? Hello?: The ball dropped, the phones came out and… nothing. “Y2K8 Bug” doesn’t sound very catchy,…
The Associated Press is reporting that former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore has officially announced he is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. John Warner. Gilmore announced his candidacy by posting a video to YouTube. The formal announcement sets up Gilmore as the presumed Republican nominee for the seat, as the other leading candidate, Rep. Tom Davis (Va.-R), announced last month that he would not seek the seat. Gilmore will…
Today the Post’s Mary Beth Sheridan writes that the effort to grant District residents even a modicum of voting representation isn’t waiting for better talking points — it’s waiting for better politicians. According to the article, the fight for District voting rights may get its biggest boost in 2009 if a Democrat is elected president and if the Democratic Party can increase its numbers in the U.S. Senate.Despite the Senate setback, the latest effort is…
New Hampshire Looks to Smack Down Senators: After the U.S. Senate failed to overcome a filibuster on legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives, voting rights activists swore they would have their revenge. On the top of their list are Republican senators John McCain (Ariz.), Gordon Smith (Ore.), and Thad Cochran (Miss.), not to mention the lone Democrat to vote against the bill, Max Baucus (Mont.). But one…
