Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

D.C. Councilwoman Muriel Bowser hopes that a flourishing Ward 4 will springboard her into the mayor's office. At a campaign event Thursday night, Bowser -- the new chair of the Council's Committee on Economic Development -- highlighted the economic progress in her ward. That includes...

Alan Blinder

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

In its first public sanctioning of a District lawmaker, the city's ethics board admonished D.C. Councilman Vincent Orange on Thursday for intervening when health regulators tried to close a rat-infested warehouse owned by a campaign contributor. "His intention was to provide good constituent...

Jonetta Rose Barras

Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the one that ran earlier this week on the front page of the Washington Post's Metro section is a book: There was D.C. Councilwoman Anita Bonds, followed by Marion Barry in a conga line. They were inside the Channel Inn. That was a ferocious blast from...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

Councilwoman Anita Bonds held a strong lead Tuesday night with more than half of the precincts reporting in the D.C. Council at-large special election. Bonds had 37 percent of the vote, while former reporter Elissa Silverman had 27 percent, and Republican Patrick Mara followed with 21 percent....

Harry Jaffe

Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

What happens if they hold an election and nobody votes? This occurred to me Tuesday afternoon as I visited Precinct 143, in the Chinese Community Church at Fifth and I St. NW. Poll workers outnumbered voters 6-1. The polls had been open for nine hours. The electronic machines showed 75 had...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

Voters will decide Tuesday whether they want D.C. Democratic Party Chairman Anita Bonds, a frontrunner in the six-person race, to stay on the D.C. Council. Seven names will appear on the ballot, although only six candidates remain in the race. Former Councilman Michael Brown dropped out last...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

The nonprofit robbed by a now-imprisoned D.C. Council member has struggled to win back donors. In the last five months, the DC Children's Youth Investment Trust Corp., a grant-making nonprofit subsidized by the District, hasn't received any private donations. "That would be zero at this...

Alan Blinder

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Sulaimon Brown, the minor mayoral candidate whose allegations of corruption in D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign set off an ongoing federal investigation, has endorsed Councilwoman Anita Bonds in Tuesday's special election for an at-large council seat. "Anita Bonds is a real Democrat,...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

D.C. Councilwoman Anita Bonds is working to shore up her position as the consensus Democratic candidate in the at-large race, yet "undecided" represents the thinking of nearly half of voters surveyed in a new poll released barely a week before Election Day. Public Policy Polling said Bonds...

Alan Blinder

Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

Confronted with unflinching and potent opposition, a D.C. councilman on Tuesday abandoned his "emergency" effort to require the city's third-grade students to prove their reading skills before they could move on to the fourth grade. "We have a crisis in the city," at-large Councilman Vincent...