D.C. Wire Archive: vincent gray
Biddle picks up SEUI endorsement -- and criticism from opponents
The Service Employees International Union on Wednesday endorsed D.C. Council member Sekou Biddle (D-At large) in the April 26 special election, even as some of Biddle's opponents stepped up their criticism of his attempts to have them thrown off the ballot.
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Tim Craig
| March 2, 2011; 12:59 PM ET |
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Bryan Weaver, Jacque Patterson, Sekou Biddle, Vincent Orange, at-large election 2011, vincent gray
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Kwame Brown's SUV was illegal, Wells says
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown "inappropriately requested" that District officials violate the law by providing him a leased Lincoln Navigator SUV that cost taxpayers $2,000 a month, according to a report issued this morning by D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6). Wells, the chairman of the Committee on Public...
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Tim Craig
| February 28, 2011; 10:03 AM ET |
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Biddle opens a well-staffed office for council race
Interim DC. Council member Sekou Biddle (D-At large) opened his campaign office Sunday as he gears up for the April 26 citywide election, telling a room of supporters they have to move at "light speed" to fend off more than a half-dozen potential challengers.
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Tim Craig
| February 28, 2011; 9:06 AM ET |
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April 26 special election, D.C. Council, Josh Lopez, Joshua Lopez, Kwame Brown, Marion Barry, Mary Cheh, Mayor Fenty, Sekou Biddle, Vincent C. Gray, Vincent Orange, vincent gray
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Okay to put friends in city jobs, Barry says
The head of the D.C. Primary Care Association is warning Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and other city leaders not to stack the agency that controls District health-care spending with political appointees who may not be skilled in health matters.
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Tim Craig
| February 25, 2011; 3:35 PM ET |
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Marion Barry, Tim Craig, Vincent C. Gray, vincent gray
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Gray to lift $19 cap on fares, says taxicab chairman
Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) has ordered the Taxicab Commission to lift a $19 cap on taxicab fares, according to commission Chairman Leon Swain, who testified at D.C. Council oversight hearing Tuesday. Gray's instructions to adjust the city's rulemaking to lift the cap is in keeping with the D.C. Council's...
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Nikita R Stewart
| February 22, 2011; 5:41 PM ET |
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D.C. Taxis, Nikita Stewart, Vincent C. Gray, vincent gray
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Height honored with celebration of post office renaming
Dorothy Height, the civil rights and women's rights icon who died last year, was honored Tuesday with a celebration marking the renaming of a District post office after her. The post office, attached to the National Postal Museum and known previously as the National Capital post office, is the first...
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Nikita R Stewart
| February 22, 2011; 4:15 PM ET |
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Nikita Stewart, Vincent C. Gray, vincent gray
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