Get ready for a lot more orange in your life, D.C. Former Ward 5 councilman Vincent Orange is set to kickoff his formal campaign for D.C. Council Chair on Wednesday morning. But really, the campaign started this afternoon, when Orange appeared on NewsChannel 8’s NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt — sporting, naturally, a bright orange tie. Orange steps into the campaign to challenge current At-large Council member Kwame Brown. Ward 2’s Jack Evans had previously…
During a live interview yesterday afternoon on NewsChannel 8’s Let’s Talk Live, co-host Doug McKelway lost all sense of professionalism while interviewing gay blogger Michael Rogers about the upcoming documentary film, Outrage. Rogers appears in the film, directed by Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated), which targets politicians who are known (or rumored) closet cases but who also fight against policies that would be beneficial to the LGBT population. The exchange between…