After legislation granting the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives passed two weeks ago, the question that remained was how the Senate would look upon the proposal. Well, today we’ll find out. Today at 2:30 p.m. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Ut.) will introduce legislation that follows up on the House’s recent action. And while Lieberman’s leadership was all but assured during the April 16 March for Voting Rights,…

Washington, it’s time to round up your interns and send them on a lunch run for the office. Give them a metro map (or if they’re good interns, cab fare), show them the Potomac Avenue stop, and point them to D.C.’s greatest sandwich shop: Mangialardo & Sons. Forget the overwhelming yeasty aroma of Subway or the turkey sandwich with two paper-thin slices of meat at your local food-by-the-pound, Mangialardos will scratch your itch for a…

>> There’s no doubt that we’re relieved that the Metro passenger who was struck by the outbound Blue train at Rosslyn this morning did not sustain serious injury. But, we can’t stress this enough, people —don’t crowd the edge of theplatform! We’d like to keep all of you around. [Washington Post] >> That said, let’s be glad we seem to be made of sterner stuff than New York State Senator Carl Kruger, who’d like to…

Happy Fourth of July, Washington! We hope you’ve got a good spot staked out for watching the fireworks. And we hope you’ve been having a good time not working — your morning roundup writers certainly have. That’s because there’s practically nothing to round up. With the local media mostly off for the holiday, the news is slooow. But that’s not such a bad thing; we should all be manning grills, not computers. Here’s to…

David Bowie reference aside, perhaps you too, as a way of sticking it to the man for subjecting you to the indoors on a gorgeous day, start coming up with inane ideas, looking for good Family Guy quotes online, and doing other pointless things. Essentially, anything to make the time go faster and to avoid the work you really need to be doing. I’ve been staring at this pile of pennies that has managed to…

District political types and local journalists long waited for today — the day the D.C. City Council would finally vote on the contentious stadium lease, the day on which D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams was to prove once and for all if he could round up key votes at key moments. Alas, it was not to be. As we reported late yesterday afternoon, Williams asked Council-chair Linda Cropp to postpone the vote on the stadium lease…

The Post, Examiner, and Washington Times are all reporting on yesterday’s hearing before the City Council on a lease for a new stadium for the Washington Nationals. Beyond the substance of the hearing, which featured the regular cast of characters playing their expected roles, DCist has these observations to make: MLB: Hasn’t yet learned its lesson. Every time the league has threatened or spoken down to the council (which, at this point is many times),…

>> Wins on Friday against the free falling Cleveland Cavaliers and on Sunday against the Charlotte Bobcats coupled with an Indiana Pacers loss at Miami have moved the Wizards into 5th place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with just two games to go. The Wizards overall record now stands at 45-35 and the team has won four in a row since their five game losing streak. With the Pacers two games back with only…

On its front page today, the Post writes about the increase of iPod thefts from apartments and cars and how it can be a real bummer for one’s playlist to be instantly gone. We can surely understand this trauma. But nowhere in the article was there word of what happens when an iPod is forcibly taken from one’s person. Unless we’re missing something (Update, we did miss something, see comments), the Post seemed to…

The first presidential debate is over and now the fun really begins. It’s time for all the analysis, fact checking, second guessing, and partisan spin that this town is famous for. The Posts’ Howard Kurtz offers up a national round up in this morning’s Media Notes column, saying that “[i]t was, in fact, a relentlessly serious debate — Iraq, Iran, Sudan, North Korea — in which both Bush and Kerry, both wearing American flag lapel…