WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. Council voted unanimously Dec. 3 to increase the District of Columbia’s minimum wage to $11.50 an hour, one of the nation’s highest. The vote by the 13-member council follows a national trend in which localities and states are addressing the minimum wage in the wake of federal inaction. Last month, […]
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Gallaudet Reinstates Official
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing has reinstated its chief diversity officer, who was suspended for three months after signing a petition circulated by opponents of gay marriage in Maryland. Gallaudet University president T. Alan Hurwitz announced the reinstatement of Angela McCaskill in an email Monday to […]
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Judge Imposes Curfew on Kwame Brown
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge placed former D.C. Council chairman Kwame Brown under curfew Oct. 9 and ordered him to make weekly visits with court officials as he awaits sentencing on a bank fraud charge. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon toughened the conditions of Brown’s release after the one-time rising political star failed to […]
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Aide to Gray’s 2010 Bid Admits Shadow Campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was elected in 2010 with the aid of $650,000 in illicit funds from a city businessman, a Gray campaign consultant acknowledged in federal court Tuesday. Eugenia “Jeanne” Clarke Harris’s guilty plea confirmed that off-the-books payments were being used to pay for consultants, supplies and other expenses […]
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Mendelson to lead scandal-plagued DC Council
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandal-plagued D.C. Council has selected veteran legislator Phil Mendelson as its interim chairman. Mendelson replaces Kwame Brown, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud last week and resigned. Brown was the second councilmember to leave office in disgrace this year. The council voted unanimously Wednesday to install Mendelson as interim chairman. He’ll […]
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Panettiere Honored for DC Statehood Advocacy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Actress Hayden Panettiere was born and raised in upstate New York, lives in Los Angeles and has no roots in the nation’s capital. But she’s passionate about securing full representation in Congress for District of Columbia residents. That’s what led Panettiere to the John A. Wilson Building, the district’s city hall, where […]