At the start of this week we asked whether D.C. Wire, the Post’s local politics blog, was slowly dying. Not so, fired back Metro reporter Lori Montgomery. In a post published yesterday, she explained that the frenetic pace of the mayoral race — particular the many forums that Post reporters attend — has left them tired and, we’re guessing, lacking in snark: Today’s topic: Mayoral forums — useful exercise in democracy or tedious electoral drudgery?…

There hasn’t been much activity on the Post’s local politics blog, D.C. Wire, this week, but today we’re getting some bad news for the hopes of many a voting rights activist. In a post titled “D.C. Statehood: Popular as Dirt,” Metro reporter Lori Montgomery writes that a recent Post poll of 1,011 adults nationwide found that 58 percent opposed statehood for the District, 22 percent supported it, and 20 percent were undecided. More than that,…

Today, the Wonkettes have answered reader requests to take on the struggling Post effort to chronicle local political news, blog-style. It seems that the Post’s D.C. Wire has been on an unintentional hiatus for over three days, and their commenters are letting them hear about it. Wonkette reposts this excerpt, from the comment stream of the Wire’s latest post (on February 17): 3+ days and counting. They manage to put out a paper every day,…

Williams Adds RSS to Blog: D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams seems to be taking the blogging business a little more seriously this time around. In a post dated February 2, Williams proudly announced that due to popular demand, an RSS feed had been added to his blog. But more than being a technical convenience, Williams spun it as a success story of responsive government: One of the things I like about being Mayor is the ability…