February 20, 2009
SEND YOUR LOVE & FLOWERS TO MARION BARRY: Former D.C. MAYOR FOR LIFE and current Ward 8 council member Marion Barry was scheduled to undergo his kidney transplant surgery at 2:30 this afternoon, so that’s… well he’s probably under the knife right now! Barry’s body has ta...
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January 18, 2009
Eleven days after the presidential election, 100 people were invited to the home of Vernon and Ann Jordan. The guest of honor was former Time Warner chief Richard Parsons, but the belle of the ball was Valerie Jarrett, one of Barack Obama's best friends and a newly named White House senior adviser....
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Roxanne Roberts and Krissah Thompson
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Eleven days after the presidential election, 100 people were invited to the home of Vernon and Ann Jordan. The guest of honor was former Time Warner chief Richard Parsons, but the belle of the ball was Valerie Jarrett, one of Barack Obama's best friends and a newly named White House senior adviser....
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December 31, 2008
Why drop a ball? Of all the ways mankind could mark one turn around the sun and the beginning of the next, why do we feel compelled to drop a big honking globe from the top of a pole?...
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William Wan
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June 25, 2008
Former mayor and current Washington DC City Councilman Marion Barry has come out in favor of gay marriage there. D.C. Council Member Marion Barry said that he would vote for a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the city, if such a measure is introduced. It’s the first time the former mayor has p...
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May 22, 2008
The Washington Post editorial board has come out strongly in favor of Mayor Fenty and Michelle Rhee's plan to overhaul the District's public schools and against the plan of DC Councilmen Marion Barry (Ward 8) and Harry Thomas Jr. (Ward 5) to give the District Council the last say in things DCPS rela...
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May 14, 2008
The D.C. Council has effectively killed a proposed $120 million contract for a start-up firm to take over the operations of the District's lottery games from a company that has worked with the city for nearly 25 years....
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April 29, 2008
In hard hats and with big sledgehammers, city officials and developers yesterday knocked down a wall at Parkside Terrace -- a 12-story apartment building in Southeast shut down and emptied in 2005 after being plagued by drugs, crime and other social ills....
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April 28, 2008
Satire by Shawn Goodwin Former President and three-time X-Games snowboarding champion Jimmy Carter has come under fire this week after meeting with the Palestinian militant organization Hamas. Carter, in an obvious attempt to erase four years of Presidential malaise, has made an effort to undermine...
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April 04, 2008
A week ago today, we bitterly presented the World's Worst Wonk'd. The "D.C. celebrity sightings" consisted of George Will buying another fucking book at Borders, and a fireman who had once been on local teevee. We demanded that you people get it together, and you got it together! Huzzah for Wonkette...
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