Washington Informer
The non-profit organization that former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas used to funnel funds for his personal use, lies in limbo, with its administrators having to explain to a City Council committee why the fund should continue to exist. Thomas…
D.C. Residents can File State and Federal Taxes for Free D.C. residents who need help preparing and filing their 2011 state and federal taxes will not have to look far for relief. Beginning on Monday, February 27, the D.C. Department…
Over the next few weeks, Metro will host six public meetings around the D.C. Metro area where members of the public can provide formal testimony regarding the budget and fare proposals. Preceding each of the formal public hearings, Metro will…
Mayor Vincent Gray has issued a statement in reaction to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell going on the record in support of D.C.'s budget autonomy. In the Feb. 22 letter to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell…
Race to April 3 Primary: Seegars Pushes Forward Longtime Ward 8 activist Sandra "S.S" Seegars is running against D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry (D) in the Tuesday, April 3 primary for the party nomination. Seegars, who has deep roots in the…
As some residents in the District are working to recall the mayor, the council chairman and two members of the D.C. Council, there is a recall election set later this month for an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Ward 4. Douglas…
The House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee has voted 14-6 to send Sen. Steve Martin's bill to the Appropriations Committee, which has postponed a similar House measure until 2013. The same fate likely awaits Martin's bill, which would take effect…
BOULDER, CO – While our society is more diverse than ever before, schools are more segregated today than they were 30 years ago. School choice policies that allow children to enroll in schools outside of their neighborhood have the potential…
Washington, D.C. – On the same day the case against five men accused in the South Capitol Street shooting of 2010 went to trial, the Council of the District of Columbia's Committee of the Whole considered and moved the landmark…
It has been said that journalists write the first draft of history. So what do we make of the history written last Friday in both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly. In the Senate, Ulysses Currie of Prince George's…
The Prince George's County Office of Human Resources Management, Recruitment, Examination and Classification Division, has opened enrollment for county residents between the ages of 15 – 19 as of June 18, 2012 in their summer jobs program. The Summer Youth…
GREENBELT, MD -- Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson is about to begin serving prison time. Johnson is scheduled to begin serving his sentence this week on an extortion conviction. Johnson was sentenced in December to more than seven…
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