Good morning, D.C. If you live in Wards 1 or 2, don’t forget to turn out to vote today in the special election for District I member of the State Board of Education. There’s only one name on the ballot, that of veteran education reporter Mary Lord, but as we mentioned before, there’s also a write-in candidate, first-year teacher in DCPS Jason Crawford. Check out each candidate’s web site and decide for yourself. If…

Registered voters in Wards 1 and 2 received a postcard in the mail a few weeks back announcing the special election scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 21 — but in the off chance you quickly tossed in the garbage, allow us to fill you in: In April, D.C. Board of Education member Jeff Smith resigned his seat in protest immediately after the D.C. Council gave preliminary approval to Mayor Adrian Fenty’s school takeover plan, so now…

Jim Webb and George Allen might be stuck in a tight battle for the Virginia Senate seat, but no such contest existed for a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriage or civil unions. As the Post is reporting, the amendment — one of eight across the country — was approved by an overwhelming 57 percent of Virginia voters, somewhat proving the power of the commonwealth’s social conservative tendencies. And even though Northern Virginia has tended towards…

What’s with teens these days? Leave it to WJLA to do some undercover reporting to find out. In a story posted on the website, the station’s probing news team embedded itself with teens in Maryland to find out exactly what makes them tick, what secrets they posses, and what they do on their free time. Not to say that the results are somewhat alarmist, but, oh hell, that’s exactly what they are. Read for yourself:…

A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that Ralph Nader was likely going to be on the Virginia presidential ballot, after Attorney General Jerry Kilgore ordered that Nader’s petitions be accepted. In a move sure to warm the cockles of a Kerry-lover’s heart, Nader was today denied a spot on the ballot by the State Board of Elections, the Post reports.Nader fell short of getting the required 10,000 certified signatures on his qualifying petitions,…