As you, faithful DCist reader, should know, today is the day that you can take action for District voting rights. And if you haven’t already, why not take your lunch break to call the toll-free number the folks at D.C. Vote have set-up (1-866-346-3008) and lobby a senator? If you’re a District resident, you’ll get patched through to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). If not, you’ll get your home senator. On top of the handy…

It sounded just like the political intrigue that makes for a good scandal. While running for office, a candidate for the D.C. Council accepted reduced rent for her campaign office from a local developer and allowed an unregistered political action committee to funnel money from developers to her campaign’s coffers — up to and beyond $100,000, in fact. The only problem? None of it seems to be true. The Post is reporting today that D.C….

Most everyone who has ever commented on a messageboard or blog has used some sort of alias. There’s not really anything wrong with that. Well, unless you’re the mayor’s press secretary and you get caught using multiple aliases to defend your boss on a popular city blog. No, it didn’t happen here, but it did happen in San Francisco. According to an ABC 7 report on the matter, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s press secretary,…

In recent years, various neighborhood listservs have popped up across the District, serving as hyper-local sounding boards and electronic community forums. There’s NewHillEast, WoodleyFriends, cleveland-park, HillcrestDC, AdamsMorgan, columbia heights, FriendsOfSligoCreek, gloverpark, MPD-1D — you get the idea. So much commentary is exchanged on these many listservs that the City Paper’s blog, City Desk, has taken to publishing twice-weekly excerpts of the best and weirdest that gets exchanged. But one new listserv is looking to fight…

Dear readers: Just like Mike, Rob, and Ryan before me, today I’m stepping down as DCist’s Editor-in-Chief. Sommer is going to continue to shepard the site for the months to come, and given the work she’s done so far, I know she’ll do an excellent job. I’m not going away altogether, though — I’m hoping to start writing longer pieces on issues that escape from the immediacy of day-to-day news blogging. Writing and editing for…

We’re barely getting over the September 12 Democratic primary and already we’re hearing whispers of the 2010 election. Jonathan Rees, the Ward 3 candidate known for his, let’s say, “creative” use of online resources to run his campaign, may be smarting from his trouncing on Tuesday (he mustered 29 votes for the council seat, or 0.21 percent of the total votes cast), but he’s not out. Not at all. In a posting on a DCPages.com…

It was on April 27, 2005, that we took our first of many stabs at the District mayoral race. And it’s tomorrow, some sixteen months after we first tried to guess who would throw their hats in the ring, that voters will finally have their say. Voters in the District and Maryland go to the polls tomorrow to vote in primaries for everything from senators to council-members to ANC representatives, with more than 800 candidates…

Even blogs take vacations, you know? Well, that’ll have to do to explain why D.C. Wire, the Post’s local politics blog, took an extended leave of absence from July 13 until yesterday. But now they’re back, and they’re promising that they’ll blog all the way through next Tuesday, the big day of D.C. primaries. That’s about enough time for Jonathan Rees to set up shop in the comments section again and have long, long discussions…

While a number of states continue to debate or enact bans on gay marriage, the District, long a progressive-minded town with an active gay population, has steered clear of the debate. Until now, it seems. A ballot initiative to define marriage as a union between a man and woman is set to be introduced before the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, DCist has been told. Lisa Greene, a 40-year-old Republican activist and founder of…

It’s been a year since Jonathan Rees launched his quixotic campaign for the Ward 3 seat on the D.C. Council. And what a year it has been. For those of you new to the Rees saga, here’s a brief recap — Rees has existed primarily online, running his campaign by using numerous online aliases (28 on DCist alone; upwards of 80 on other blogs, listservs, and messageboards) to promote his qualifications and attack those of…