“Would you use the term in referring to Native Americans in anything other than a derogatory way?” the Daily News argues.
In the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech earlier this year, it’s been reported all over the world today that two 17-year-old students were shot in an incident at Delaware State University last night. Both students, a male and a female whose names have not been released, were originally from the Washington, D.C. area. The male student is in stable condition, but the female’s injuries are listed as serious. The campus remained locked-down today…
Last week we reported that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams takes in $152,000 in compensation, a salary some viewed as excessive and others as not excessive enough. But if this is how much we currently judge the city’s chief executive to be worth, what would we pay, let’s say, the chief librarian? A lot more, as news has it. The Common Denominator reported on Friday that the D.C. Board of Library Trustees decided to hire Ginnie…
A job opening posted on both JournalismJobs.com and Media Bistro, a “Washington, D.C.-based publishing company” is looking for freelance gossip columnists who can”do for the nations capital what the New York Posts ”Page Six” and Lloyd Grove, Joanna Molloy and George Rush of the New York Daily News do for the Big Apple: Publish insider gossip that no one can afford to miss! Are you plugged in to the D.C. social and political scene? Do…
