Howard County officials have moved to ban the sale of sugary drinks in parks, libraries and other county properties and at county-sponsored events.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban the sale of large sodas and sugary drinks. Could that ever come to pass in D.C.?

Protesters from Occupy protests from around the country are rallying outside the Capitol Hilton this week while a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors brings together civic leaders from across the nation.

Not only will he be enjoying a cordial breakfast with members of the D.C. Council — well, unless two councilmembers let the swear words fly again — but Mayor Vince Gray will be hamming it up with both New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama today.

A report, published today by the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns, finds that 98.2 percent of all guns used for crime in the District come from other states, with Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia topping the list of gun exporters to our city. The finding is part of a broader report (PDF) assessing gun trafficking in the U.S. and its effect on various cities and states.

The big news out of New York yesterday was that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plea to extend the city’s two-term limit so he could run again was approved by the City Council. Sound familiar? It should. In 1994, District voters approved a two-term limit on the mayor, members of the D.C. Council and members of the Board of Education. Seven years later, the D.C. Council voted to repeal the term limits, effectively saving the jobs of…

Good Morning, Washington. In an apparent attempt to rule the D.C. media landscape through terror and intimidation, the Washington Post has published the scariest local news story we’ve ever read this morning: apparently, these disgusting-looking creatures called camel crickets are infesting area basements due to the lack of moisture in the ground thanks to the region’s rather serious drought. Described as “a mix between a spider and a cricket” and accompanied by disturbing photographic…

When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent undercover agents into Virginia gun shops to sniff out illegal sales earlier this year, he had one point to make — Virginia’s guns are ending up plenty of other places, where they have contributed to a number of killings. Predictably, Virginia officials were incensed at Bloomberg’s interstate investigation, issuing the equivalent of a cease-and-desist letter and pushing a local gun rights group to organize a “Bloomberg Gun…

In a town where motorcades are less a spectacle and more an annoyance, Mayor Adrian Fenty’s modest security detail has never raised many eyebrows. But now Fenty has done away with it altogether — and no one really knows why. According to a Post report, Fenty has decided to ditch the police security detail and drive himself around during the month of August instead. And beyond simply shedding daily armed protection, Fenty has also been…

Good morning, Washington. We’ve just been catching up on the rather scary looking but thankfully not terror-related explosion in Manhattan yesterday. Naturally, our parent site Gothamist has complete coverage of the steam explosion that occurred on East 41st and Lexington Avenue (41st between Lex and Third) just before 6 p.m. yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the explosion, which killed one person and injured 30, had New Yorkers worried for a while, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said…