Good morning, Washington. Usually, we get pretty excited about coming in to work only to discover that the big, unwieldy and potentially troublesome meeting that was scheduled has been canceled. That’s often a gold star kind of day that deserves a special trip out for a fancy coffee, and maybe doing a little jig behind the closed door of your office, right? But we have to express some serious disappointment that this meeting appears to…

What a night, eh Washington? If you’re like us, you were up late listening to Kojo and Jonetta break down the election results as they came in on WAMU. Our favorite moment of the evening came just before 10 p.m., when Mayor Williams told co-host Jonetta Rose Barras she was crazy to suggest that anyone believed he had waited too long to decide if he would seek a third term. For the record Jonetta —…

We’ve followed the candidates for the last 16 months, and today is the day everything will be decided. We opted not to endorse any candidates, but we are going to put our betting skills to work and pick the winners for the D.C. races. Mayor: Love him or hate him, Adrian Fenty is taking this contest. Not only has he led competitor Linda Cropp in the polls since late July, his recent endorsement by the…

It was on April 27, 2005, that we took our first of many stabs at the District mayoral race. And it’s tomorrow, some sixteen months after we first tried to guess who would throw their hats in the ring, that voters will finally have their say. Voters in the District and Maryland go to the polls tomorrow to vote in primaries for everything from senators to council-members to ANC representatives, with more than 800 candidates…

Everyone else has taken their shot, so why not the City Paper? Today the weekly’s local politics column, Loose Lips, threw its support behind a number of candidates for next week’s D.C. primaries. But more surprising than the picks was the biting tone in which they were delivered — this is no Post endorsement, they seemed to remind us. Columnist James Jones sided solidly with candidates that bucked the establishment and railed against those beholden…

Brown Not Out: Well, we’re a little red-faced today. Yesterday we guessed that mayoral longshot Michael Brown was bowing out of the race. He did, after all, send us an email in which he announced that a press conference held yesterday would include “major announcement regarding his plans for the future.” Coupled with his fast-shrinking campaign finance account, we thought, “This guy is toast.” How wrong we were. Brown didn’t duck out of the race….

The Examiner has a story today that kind of boggles our noggins. It seems A. Scott Bolden, candidate for the At-Large seat on the D.C. Council, is upset with his opponent, current councilmember Phil Mendelson, for emailing a newsletter to about 1,000 consituents last week. Bolden argued that the emails constitute a violation of D.C. election laws, which prohibit councilmembers from mailing more than 99 newsletters or press releases at a time within 90 days…

Today the City Paper’s Loose Lips column draws our attention to something we have suffered for far too long — comment spam. And no, it’s not the Jonathan Rees and his inane ramblings (or those of his curious aliases). It’s the real stuff. According to LL, At Large D.C. Council candidate A. Scott Bolden’s blog has been quite popular with comment spammers, so much so that the comment sections of some entries feature little else…

The City Paper’s City Desk blog noted yesterday that a Wednesday Superior Court hearing revealed that Christopher Barry, son of Marion, had tested positive for traces of marijuana. Barry was in court for an April arrest after driving his father’s car without a valid license. The positive drug test also violates a pre-sentencing agreement from a 2005 arrest for assaulting a police officer. City Desk spoke to A. Scott Bolden, who is representing the younger…

Reviewing the week in DCist can’t go without mentioning what is now the news of the week — George Mason today toppled the nation’s best basketball team, UConn, 86-84 in a nail-biting overtime upset. The victory caps what has been a surprising rise through the NCAA ranks for George Mason, and with Georgetown out of the picture, gives the Washington region someone to cheer for. This week we saw the Post’s newest conservative blogger…