Remember those billboards that popped up in the 1980s that counted up the national debt, dollar by dollar? Pretty scary, huh? Well, District voting rights activists want something similar for their cause. Today the D.C. Council held a hearing on legislation that would allow the city to place two large LED billboards — one outside the John A. Wilson Building and the other outside the new Washington Nationals stadium — that would display the amount…

Last week’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives seemed to go swimmingly. Mayor-to-be Adrian Fenty and outgoing mayor Anthony Williams played nice among the 200-person crowd, no one on the committee chimed in to argue against the legislation — all seemed to be moving forward. Almost. Committee chairman Rep. James Sensenbrenner has apparently expressed displeasure with a provision of the…

It was mid-May when we found out that a bill that would grant the District a voting seat in the U.S. House of Representatives was finally moving forward, having met with the approval of the House Government Reform Committee. Yesterday news came through that the legislation — known as the D.C. Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act — may soon overcome another obstacle, putting the District one step closer to voting representation in the…

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…