Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "dc city council"

Home / Posts tagged "dc city council" (Page 6)

  • Questions on Crime

    By on July 3, 2012

    Members of the D.C. City Council chastised the Metropolitan Police Department for a perceived failure to effectively engage local community members on initiatives aimed at...

  • Full Council Approves Beninda, Budd

    By on June 6, 2012

    The D.C. City Council unanimously confirmed the nominations of two transgender women to the 15-member D.C. Commission on Human Rights during a June 5 legislative...

  • Anti-Bullying Bill on Track for Vote in D.C.

    By on April 26, 2012

    On April 20, as students around the country recognized the Day of Silence to remember LGBT students who lost their lives due to bullying or...

  • McDuffie, Day Net Ward 5 Endorsements

    By on April 26, 2012

    It's endorsement time in the Ward 5 race. With less than a month remaining before the May 15 special election to replace former Ward 5...

  • HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.

    By on April 19, 2012

    Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...

  • Signs of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.

    By on April 19, 2012

    A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers –...

  • Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland

    By on April 4, 2012

    As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results...

  • Stein Dems Endorse Muriel Bowser

    By on February 17, 2012

    The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.'s foremost LGBT Democratic organization, last night endorsed incumbent City Councilmember Muriel Bowser in her Ward 4 race with 72...

  • Gay Republican Jumps into Crowded Field for Ward 5 Council Race

    By on January 27, 2012

    Tim Day, an openly gay Republican who ran against former Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) in 2010, announced his candidacy for the May 15...

  • Prostitution Proposal Sparks Debate in DC

    By on January 26, 2012

    City Councilmembers Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) and Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) presided over a contentious hearing of the Judiciary Committee Tuesday that saw passionate testimony...

  • LGBT Groups React to Thomas Resignation

    By on January 10, 2012

    Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D), generally perceived as an ally to the District's LGBT community, resigned from the council late in the evening,...

  • Second-Guessing Support

    By on January 5, 2012

    Even his vote in favor of marriage equality may not be enough to salvage Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.'s (D-Ward 5) political career among his LGBT...

  • Making a Clean Break

    By on December 15, 2011

    Despite a controversial walk-up to the passage of D.C. marriage equality in 2009, a recently introduced bill before the City Council that would permit same-sex...

  • Gay Group Calls for Thomas To Go

    By on December 8, 2011

    Following the search of D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.'s (D-Ward 5) Brentwood home by FBI and IRS agents Dec. 2, the DC Log Cabin Republicans,...

  • D.C. in the Red

    By on December 1, 2011

    When I moved back East from Portland, Ore., I'd more or less had my fill of ''crunchiness.'' The guy I moved out there with had...