Gospel music icon, Donnie McClurkin took to social media to express disillusionment over being disinvited from attending a concert he was scheduled to headline in Washington,…
Mayor Vincent Gray is working on getting a new system for taxis in the District approved to make life a bit easier for patrons. This is to include the capability of using credit cards instead of strictly cash. NBC Washington reported: D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced a much-awaited new meter system for District cabs. And […]
By Matt Stevens Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray has added some new and needed faces into the upper ranks of his office. He plans to restore the confidence of D.C. residents by bringing in District outsiders, a move that breaks with past traditions of local government. Gray announced the appointment of Christopher Murphy as his […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON TIMES: D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray used school reform to kick off his run for mayor Saturday in downtown Washington, where an estimated 350 people intermittently chanted, “Send Fenty home!” Several current and former council members were in attendance, including at-large members Michael A. Brown and Phil Mendelson. Virginia Williams, mother […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: D.C. Council member Vincent C. Gray, a Democratic candidate for mayor, said Monday that he will not support the D.C. voting rights bill pending before Congress unless substantive changes are made to the provision that restricts the city’s ability to set its own gun-control laws. Gray, whose position puts him at […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: D.C. Council chairman and newly announced mayoral candidate Vincent C. Gray said he would decide whether to retain schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee only after he is elected, and raised “burn out” and her impending marriage to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson as issues he would want to discuss with her. Rhee […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The race for D.C. mayor will start in earnest Tuesday, when Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is set to officially announce a long-anticipated bid to take on Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, setting up a battle between two men who have been at odds for much of the past four years. The […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has fired ten DCPS teachers for administering corporal punishment and two for sexual misconduct since July 2007, according to a report she has submitted to D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray. Another 28 served suspensions ranging from two to ten days for some form of corporal punishment, […]
VIA WASHINGTON POST: When Kathy Patterson learned about Thursday’s D.C. Council hearing, during which Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee pelted each other with accusations of law-breaking and secret meetings, she had one immediate reaction. “Here we go again,” said Patterson, a former council member and chairwoman of its education committee. […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON – It’s back to work for the D.C. Council this week. Some say they’re returning for a new session still in a strained relationship with the Mayor. Last spring, it was those baseball tickets. Now, the Council Chairman says he and others are being used as scapegoats in an effort to fire […]
