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“If he can’t take me swearing at him, too bad,” Catania said. Catania said he has “hit a wall” with Barry because he “hasn’t done anything to improve the lives of the people in his ward.” “Elvis has been to United Medical Center more than Marion...
Or for Mayor Vince Gray to take on critics of the city’s decision to mobilize salt trucks for a snowstorm that never came. That’s because the micro-blogging service has become one of District politicians' favored means of communication. To area...
FILE - In this July 9, 2011 file photo, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, right, listens as Council member and former Washington Mayor Marion Barry speaks during a Ward 8 Community Summit in Washington. Barry, the civil rights activist and four-term District of... View Photo »
The idea of the criminal justice system is, they send you to jail for rehabilitation and punishment, and once you have served your time, it seems to me, your debt has been paid to society
The callousness of children was the inevitable consequence of the velocity of violence: Every night saw multiple shootings across a dozen neighborhoods. Children become hardened to scenes of mayhem in war zones. And Washington, then under the chaotic...
Newt had the White House shaking harder than a bowl of pudding held by a nervous Parkinson’s sufferer during an earthquake. Newt had the White House shaking like Marion Barry trying to give a urine sample. Did anybody think those journolist dumbbells...
At the Finance and Revenue Committee meeting held on the 1st of February, the bill dealing with licensing and regulation of online gambling was reviewed. The review committee included adherent online gambling supporters like Michael A. Brown and Marion...
FILE - In this July 9, 2011, file photo, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, left, listens to DC Council member Marion Barry during a Ward 8 Community Summit in Washington. Barry, the former four-term District of Columbia mayor whose legacy will always be... View Photo »
This is different from Occupy Wall Street because those people are fighting to reform the economic system while people in Southeast are fighting for survival ... The problem is, they really don’t know how to fight or even who to fight. That’s what I’m going to teach them. I want them to know how to pres...
Phil Mendelson (at large) sounded like he favored the bill during the debate, but supported the tabling. Listening to the debate, it was clear that many council members just don’t think there is a problem. Marion Barry (Ward 8) said he has gotten few...
Nikita Stewart has more. Aggrieved firefighters showed up , and while they didn’t applaud for Gray, they also didn’t walk out or otherwise demonstrate during the speech. However, Marion Barry managed to steal the spotlight a bit after falling ill. Read...
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (born March 6, 1936), is an American politician who served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. He was the target of a high-profile 1990 arrest on drug charges, which precluded him from seeking reelection that year. After he was... Full Article
FILE - In this July 9, 2011, file photo, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, left, listens to DC Council member Marion Barry during a Ward 8 Community Summit in Washington. Barry, the former four-term District of Columbia mayor whose legacy will always be tainted by his 1990 arrest after...
View Photo »FILE - In this July 9, 2011, file photo, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, left, listens to DC Council member Marion Barry during a Ward 8 Community Summit in Washington. Barry, the former four-term District of Columbia mayor whose legacy will always be tainted by his 1990 arrest after...
View Photo »The idea of the criminal justice system is, they send you to jail for rehabilitation and punishment, and once you have served your time, it seems to me, your debt has been paid to society
This is different from Occupy Wall Street because those people are fighting to reform the economic system while people in Southeast are fighting for survival ... The problem is, they really don’t know how to fight or even who to fight. That’s what I’m going to teach them. I want them to know how to pres...
It’s amazing the thing that bird can get people to do
