VIA THE HUFFINGTON POST: It really is true. Barack Obama can staff himself better on nearly all fronts than those who staff him — even comedians. Barack Obama so outdid Jay Leno, more by accident than by design (I think), at the White House Correspondents Dinner that next year the WHCA should just let Obama […]
VIA THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Three heroic cops and a quick-thinking street vendor stopped a madman from detonating a car bomb in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, law enforcement officials told the Daily News. The T-shirt vendor – a Vietnam vet – told Officer Wayne Rhatigan there was smoke coming from a […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Metro had a strong month in March, running 20.3 million trips on its rail system — a million more than a year earlier. But the transit agency still fell below its projections for how many riders it would carry, according to figures the agency provided to the Washington Examiner. That continuing […]
VIA THE EXAMINER: Today, ANC 8E in Ward 8 will be hosting its first mayoral candidate forum of the year with almost all of the mayoral candidates but the current mayor Adrian Fenty expected to be in the house. As of press time, DC mayoral candidates Vincent Gray, Ernest Johnson, Leo Alexander, Sulamon Brown, Dennis […]
Today many friends and admirers came to the National Council of Negro Women national headquarters to pay their respects to Dr. Dorothy Height, whose body laid in state for a public viewing. Dr. Height, who passed last week at the age of 98, was a civil rights pioneer and presidential advisor who touched the lives […]
VIA BLACK WEB 2.0: In light of the recent Library of Congress archive of all of our “tweets”, Twitterers need to be more cautious and cognizant of what they discuss or tweet on Twitter. Now most of us keep it simple and don’t engage in legal pitfalls such as defamation, terrorist threats, pornography, disclosure of […]
VIA WTOP: Metro riders could see fares go up again to help close a budget gap. The transit agency has a $189 million budget gap for the fiscal year that starts in July. In order to close the gap, interim Metro General Manager Richard Sarles will recommend a number of changes Thursday. Sarles is expected […]
VIA WTOP: The family of slain D.C. middle school principal Brian Betts will receive friends and well-wishers at a public service Wednesday afternoon. The service will be held at the Pierce Funeral Home at 9609 Center Street in Manassas, Va. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A private funeral and burial service will be held […]
VIA WUSA: The driver of a van accused of causing an accident in SE Washington Monday that claimed the life of a 37-year old woman and sent 4 children to hospitals in critical condition has a long record of alleged driving violations, a search of Maryland court records shows. 34-year-old Agene Jones, who has no […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The Washington Post’s Ben Pershing reports that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has announced that a D.C. voting rights bill will not come up this session, in part because of opposition to an amendment that would have eliminated most of the District’s gun-control laws. “At this point in time I do […]