By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com With more than a week of the federal government having been shut down, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to end the interruption in government affairs. “On behalf of the more than 920,000 citizens and residents of Prince George’s County, […]
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Mayor Bowser Has a Full Week Planned for the District Residents
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Its 2019. A new year is here, and Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city are ready with a slew of events and a strong vision for the next four years. The CIty and the mayor’s office have free events to celebrate and engage with the more than 700,000 […]
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Garbage, Feces Take Toll On National Parks Amid Shutdown
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOCELYN GECKER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty. “It’s a […]
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House Democrats Have Plan to Fund Government, But Not a Wall
By ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A week and a half into a partial government shutdown, House Democrats released their plan to re-open the government without approving money for President Donald Trump’s border wall. At the same time, the president struggled to find leverage to break the stalemate before […]
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Booker Thankful for Support in the passage of Historic Anti-Lynching Bill
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Cory Booker was so moved by the unanimous passage of a historic – and long overdue – bill to make lynching a federal crime that he was stirred to quote Maya Angelou. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not […]
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Baltimore Trying To Stem Decades-Long Disappearing Act
By The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — LaShelle Rollins’ rental house in West Baltimore is wedged between a line of derelict properties valued only by street gangs, drug addicts and firefighters conducting arson drills. And even though her family’s $700-a-month address sits across from a public school, they are among the only occupants of this […]
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Trump’s EPA Targets Obama Crackdown on Mercury from Coal Plants
By Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press The Trump administration on Dec. 28 targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation. The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the Mercury and Air Toxics […]
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Three Little Known Bills with A Huge Impact on D.C. Residents
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Much like Black Friday the day after Christmas the last legislative session of the D.C. Council seemed like a jam packed nerve racking blitz to get to the finish line. But instead of a sale, Council members and the residents were hoping major legislation was passed before the end […]
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Post-Holiday, Partial Government Shutdown To Gain Impact
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Christmas has come and gone but the partial government shutdown is just getting started. Wednesday brings the first full business day after several government departments and agencies closed up over the weekend due to a budgetary stalemate between President Donald Trump and Congress. And there is no end […]
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Black Leaders Forged Alliance With Trump on Sentencing Deal
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A rare bipartisan deal in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing laws passed after a few Black ministers, leaders and lawmakers forged an alliance with President Donald Trump, who some have condemned as racist for the last two years. The reforms could offer a path to freedom […]
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Alsobrooks Named Metropolitan COG 2019 Corporate President
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com If breaking history as the first African American woman to be elected as Prince George’s County Executive wasn’t enough, Angela Alsobrooks has been named as the 2019 corporate president of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG). As the DMV is so closely related, the Metropolitan Washington COG Corporation […]
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Flynn Sentencing Abruptly Postponed; Judge Expresses Disgust
By ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, on Tuesday, saying he could not hide his disgust for Flynn’s crime of lying to the FBI and accusing him of selling out his country. Lawyers for Flynn, […]
