The D.C. Council today gave final approval to a bill that would change the District’s Attorney General into an elected position, as the Post’s Ann E. Marimow reports . The vote came after the Council rejected an amendment offered by Ward 6’s Tommy Wells to instead transfer the powers...

Photo by kkairies Yep, most snow removal budgets are blown after this past weekend. [ WTOP ] Vincent Gray is accusing Mayor Fenty of overspending. Is he starting to sound like a mayoral candidate, or is that just more tough talk from the Council Chairman? [ D.C. Wire ] Potentially neat idea: cover the...

Natwar Gandhi, photo by DCCA The ongoing contracts dispute between the D.C. Council and the administration of Mayor Adrian Fenty is heading to court. Days after D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray once again extended the deadline to resolve the matter of whether the council will order payments stopped...

Photo by julianabrint With yesterday’s news that the D.C. Council will consider legislation that would finally legalize medical marijuana in the District, you’d think that advocates of the original 1998 voter initiative would be happy. You’d be wrong. A number of pro-medical marijuana...

Photo by ElliotVaughnRichter Good morning, Washington. Well, it looks like Scott Brown has won the special election in Massachusetts , knocking the Democrats’ majority in the Senate down to 59 seats. Exactly what this means for health care reform and President Obama’s larger legislative...

Photo by The Skipping Hippy After apparently outright lying to Politico , third White House crasher Carlos Allen now admits, through infamous D.C. attorney A. Scott Bolden , that he did indeed attend the Nov. 24 state dinner, but still denies that he wasn’t invited, Reliable Source reports. Verum...

With the Jan. 1 implementation of the District’s 5 cent disposable bag tax looming, Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) sent out some updates on how area retailers are preparing. The list is a little vague in some places, but the best opportunities to score free reusable bags look to be coming...

Photo by cmoaknd Looking back on my end-of-the-year reviews of the D.C. voting rights movement from 2006 and 2007 , there was a trend in my thinking on the issue and the progress it was making — I always assumed the coming year would be the one. That held for 2009. With a Democratic president...

Photo by dtrap People in the District have a lot of good memories to take away from 2009: an end to a long-simmering pants feud , Jim Graham’s challenge to pizza by the slice , equal marriage rights, Mayor Fenty’s Greek Week bash . Naturally, a good number of the major stories from this...

Photo by Fade 2 Black & Back Good morning, Washington. Yesterday, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray held his usual press conference to preview the next day’s legislative session, and it was predictably a doozy. For one, Gray called for DCPS CFO Noah Wepman to be fired . If you watched any...