Waxman to Rep. Fred Upton: “In the case of the Washington football team, the offensive conduct is public, not private…but is being condoned and defended by the National Football League.”

It was just about a year ago when word first emerged about a plan to expand cell phone service in Metro tunnels to include Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile and Cingular. Reaction was decidedly mixed. On the one hand, Verizon customers have had it too good for too long, smugly lording their coverage superiority over non-Verizon subscribers like that annoying kid from elementary school who always got everything he wanted for Christmas. On the other, the potential for…

With the District’s smoking ban now in force throughout the city’s bars and restaurants, pretty much the only option for smokers set on enjoying a quick cigarette without heading outside was getting elected to Congress. Today, that changed. The Hill reports that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi officially banned smoking in the Speaker’s Lobby, an ornate room beside the House chamber that for decades has been the refuge of smokers in Congress. The Post…

Pretty much everything has been proposed to get the District its long desired voting rights, but not much progress has been made since the city’s residents were disenfranchised in 1801. Will today be the day that changes? We can only hope so. At 9:15 a.m. today, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton formally introduced new legislation that would grant the District one full voting seat in the U.S. House of Representatives….