Author Archives: Valencia Mohammed

Disgruntled mental health patients, health activists and supporters are scheduled on Nov. 5 to rally in front of the John A.Wilson Building to demand that District officials provide specialized home health care services for people who suffer from both mental health and physical illnesses. Organizers said the protest was called to send a message to […]

Amir Malik Dogan El, 20, cast his first vote in a presidential election on the first day that polls opened in Washington, D.C. because he felt it was important to make an early statement. He was among almost 1,095 people who trekked to D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics headquarters at One Judiciary Square in […]

More than 1,500 supporters of President Barack Obama packed a synagogue in Northwest Washington recently to rally on behalf of their candidate and to plan strategy to win over undecided or infrequent voters in Virginia. The rally took place Oct. 17 at the Jewish Historical Synagogue located at 600 I St., NW, part of an […]

Rumors are flying among District residents about the absence of campaign posters in the local political races. Some believe that current office holders assume that once the primary elections settle who is going to represent each party in the November general election, posters are not needed. After all, in a town that is dominated by […]

Hundreds of D.C. Democrats headed to the battleground state of Virginia recently with high hopes of convincing undecided voters there to reelect President Barack Obama. The effort—called GOTV, “Go to Virginia”—was spearheaded by the D.C. Democratic Committee and drew hundreds of Obama supporters, officials said. As they do many Saturdays, the volunteers met on Sept. […]

Mazi Holland, the Ward 1 events coordinator for the Obama For America campaign, has some advice for people in her district: vote early. “We are encouraging seniors to vote early or by absentee ballot because many of them have challenges getting to the polls,” she said. Ward 4 resident, Lozen Craft, has already decided she’ll […]

D.C. government officials are bracing for a battle against business owners and developers who are challenging a law that requires businesses to hire D.C. residents, authorities said. D.C. City Council members have long complained that although the District’s First Source Employment Agreement has been on the books since 1984, enforcement bottlenecks and administrative loopholes have […]

(June 7, 2012) Washington D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown resigned his seat June 6 after he was charged with bank fraud for lying about his income on loan applications. Brown also faces a misdemeanor charge of making an unlawful cash campaign expenditure in connection with his 2008 re-election campaign for an at-large council seat. […]

Mothers from around the country joined law enforcement and students in the nation’s capitol, recently, to launch a new campaign comprised of national organizations seeking to end the drug war. Representatives from several organizations shared powerful stories of losing loved ones to drug prohibition-related violence, incarceration, overdose and addiction. The group also unveiled the “Mom’s […]

Never in her wildest dreams did Monica Fenton, 58, believe she would become a mother again. Since September, 2003, when she was falsely accused by DC Public Schools of administering corporal punishment and dismissed from her duties, she never expected to be raising three little boys in addition to mentoring students and being involved with […]