Photo by *tinadelarosa D.C. cab drivers are still planning to boycott Adams Morgan this weekend, even though Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham withdrew his controversial taxicab regulation bill today. [ WaPo ] Devyn Black, the former intern for Graham who was arrested for shooting two people outside...

Photo of Chris Bourque in a Caps uniform by Wikimedia Commons user Marcusvfx, used under a Creative Commons license The Pittsburgh Penguins claimed Chris Bourque off waivers today. So why is this interesting? The Penguins won the Stanley Cup, which means they’re currently last in line in the NHL’s...

                        “We’ve got new songs, we’ve got old songs, we’ve got songs we can hardly play!” As usual, Bono, you’re mostly right. U2’s show at FedEx Field last night was an awkward, sometimes...

Click on over to www.washingtonpost.com/local to take a look at the new Washingtonpost.com ‘Local’ homepage, which launched in Beta at 4 p.m. this afternoon. Surprisingly enough, the design actually does look significantly different from the regular home page , a far cry from previous WaPo...

Even though a new Washington Post report today suggests D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) may not actually be a target of the corruption investigation that ensnared his chief of staff, the D.C. Republican Committee keeps hounding him like he definitely is. After penning a letter to Graham yesterday...

Thinking about making a major purchase in the District this week? You might want to go ahead and pull the trigger tonight, because starting Thursday, the D.C. general sales and use tax rate increases from 5.75 percent to 6 percent . It’s not a massive jump, but that additional .25 percent can...

Thinking about making a major purchase in the District this week? You might want to go ahead and pull the trigger tonight, because starting Thursday, the D.C. general sales and use tax rate increases from 5.75 percent to 6 percent . It’s not a massive jump, but that additional .25 percent can...

After first merely postponing a hearing on his recently proposed taxicab legislation in the wake of related federal bribery charges against his chief of staff, Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham has gone ahead and withdrawn the bill entirely , Tim Craig is reporting at D.C. Wire. In a rich bit of...

Photo by akkleis We’ve written about the sizzling drama inside the Cleveland Park Citizens Association before, and now the Ward3DC blog reports that the “UNITY” slate, headed by longtime resident John Chelen, has been declared the winner of Tuesday’s election. Chelen replaces...

If you’re concerned about average D.C. street crime (and who isn’t), you really need to be reading Borderstan on a regular basis. The blog has been doing a consistently great job of warning residents about the everyday muggings and burglaries that mostly go unreported by larger media outlets,...