Grosso will advise the firm’s clients in the real estate, hospitality, education, health care, arts, and cannabis industries.

Under a bill introduced today, lobbyists would have to disclose actions taken to influence contracts, reprogramming, or the procurement of goods.

Yesterday afternoon, the D.C. Council was prepared to vote on an amendment that would have legislated how much Uber can charge. Eighteen hours and tens of thousands of emails later, the measure was shelved.

On top of the rain, it’s looking like an active day of Occupy D.C.-related protests will keep traffic tied up throughout parts of the District today.

Rick Perry, the Texas Governor who recently celebrated his decision to run for the Republican presidential nomination by “deep-throating” a vegetarian corn dog, has placed the responsibility of accounting for his campaign finances in the hands of the individual who had been doing the same job for Stephen Colbert.

No, really.

The New York Times reported yesterday that in December, AT&T delivered thousands of cupcakes from the Georgetown bakery to members of the FCC, journalists and others throughout the city as part of an annual lobbying blitz.

Those pesky Save Our Safety Net folks (the same ones who got several D.C. Council members to put on superhero capes last week) got up in D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray’s face with a camera during a lobbying push this morning. You’ve got to admire their moxie. These grassroots budget activists are pushing a proposal to increase income taxes on the wealthiest District residents (9.0 percent for those earning between $200,000 and $1 million, and…

It’s not everyday that The Sugarhill Gang, Sisqo, and Dru Hill are hanging around a party at a house in D.C.’s Chinatown. The artists were in town yesterday to lobby, not for thongs or hip hopping to hippie, but for the Performance Rights Act, which would give terrestrial broadcast royalties to performers of songs. Currently songwriters and composers get royalties. The party, held in an ultramodern house, was organized by SoundExchange, a music industry non-profit…