A D.C. resident is not able to get a driver’s license or renew an existing one if they owe more than $100 to the local government. The D.C. Council voted to end the practice entirely, after weighing whether to continue to apply it to people who have multiple fines for select moving violations.

Mr. Herculano de Carvalho Montalvao Machado doesn’t carry a commercial driver’s license and he isn’t a stock model, but he’s definitely a D.C. resident.

Soon, court debt, as well as traffic violation fines, won’t lead to any license suspensions in the District.

Mayor Vince Gray formally introduced a bill this afternoon that would offer driver’s licenses to all D.C. residents, regardless of immigration status.

Mayor Vince Gray plans to introduce legislation tomorrow that would make it possible for all District residents to obtain driver’s licenses, including undocumented immigrants.

The Maryland Senate approved a plan to offer driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.

John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in 1981, has been granted the right to obtain a D.C. driver’s license in order to drive to visit his mother in Williamsburg. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman issued the ruling Tuesday that gives Hinckley more freedom and permission to spend more time away from St. Elizabeths Hospital, the Southeast D.C. mental hospital where he lives. Fingers crossed that Hinckley’s upcoming…

Buried at the bottom of this story by the Examiner’s Michael Neibauer (which is about whether the DMV should change under-21 driver’s licenses from having the photo be in profile to having the ID itself be printed vertically instead of horizontally — both seem fine) is this little nugget: “The proposed DMV rules would also increase the number of years, from six to 17, before a person is required to get a new driver’s license…