A fund has been started for Dorothy Brizill and Gary Imhoff, the two D.C. civic activists whose Columbia Heights home burned down last month.
Some critics are looking down on a proposal to loosen restrictions on how tall certain D.C. buildings can be.
Photo by gerdaindc As the battle over gay marriage in the District heats up — the Washington Blade reports today that D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At Large) may introduce a bill before the end of the month — a number of politics watchers have warned of political tension and conflict that may ensue. In the Examiner today, longtime local politics watcher Harry Jaffe argues that Catania’s move may provoke what he terms a…
Last week’s ruling by a U.S. Court of Appeals that the District’s restrictive gun law is unconstitutional has had the expected impact — battle lines have been drawn, and activists on either side defend the decision as a step forward for personal freedom and self defense or deride it as a reckless move that could increase violence in an already violent city. The Post jumped on the decision first, publishing an editorial condemning it the…
D.C. Watch’s twice-weekly online newsletter The Mail has long been a source of news, opinion, and analysis on District politics. Since 1995, founders and main contributors Dorothy Brizill and Gary Imhoff have used the newsletter to root out government waste and take on political shenanigans, both left and right. And while much of The Mail’s content spawns response after response, one recent non-political announcement has drawn some debate — should The Mail become a blog?…
Leave it to community activists Dorothy Brizill and Gary Imhoff to come up with ideas for D.C. while on vacation. After returning from a European vacation last week, Imhoff wrote in his introduction to DC Watch’s regular email newsletter about a surprising discovery the two had while on the Portuguese island of Madeira — the small island was totally covered by a public and free wireless internet system. A number of local municipalities have built…
In an interesting article highlighting the power of blogs and internet forums in promoting democratic discourse, the Examiner today reports on a heated debate that has developed on D.C. Watch’s bi-weekly online newsletter concerning a new $400 million, 250-bed hospital being planned for Southeast. Gary Imhoff, longtime city activist and the newsletter’s publisher, recognized the importance of new forums in allowing residents access to large audiences, stating, “There are few places where someone who…
Is that the sound of cats hissing and clawing? No, it’s merely D.C. Vote and D.C. Watch, two District-based non-profit political organizations, going at each other. The two, which have usually peacefully co-existed and even complimented each other’s work, recently engaged in an online volley of arguments and accusations. On the one side, D.C. Watch’s Gary Imhoff and Dorothy Brizill, on the other, D.C. Vote’s Ilir Zherka. So far four rounds have been fought, with…
Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 50s. Hunger Strike at Georgetown: A hunger strike by group of 22 students at Georgetown has entered its sixth day. The students are members of the Georgetown Living Wage Campaign, which has been pressuring the university to increase the wages of its lowest paid employees for a year. David Swanson has posted a column and photos about the strike on his website and Indymedia, and…
