Archive: May 2006
Office of Baseball
So, you thought you'd never have to hear about Mayor Williams and the D.C. Council fighting over money for a new baseball stadium again? Yeah, right. As if. In the council's breakfast this morning, Williams asked for $750,000 for...
By David Nakamura | May 31, 2006; 1:02 PM ET | Comments (8)
Nats No-Shows?
So I went to the Nationals game against the Los Angeles Dodgers last night and enjoyed good weather, short lines for food and a rather spirited effort by the home team, which scored a 10-4 victory. I was one of...
By David Nakamura | May 27, 2006; 11:51 AM ET | Comments (4)
Find the Frontrunners (Cont.)
We promised you an update on why Adrian Fenty and Linda Cropp, the presumed mayoral campaign frontrunners, were absent from last night's youth forum. Fenty was holding a fundraiser, said his spokesman, Alec Evans. Cropp had busy schedule, dropping by...
By David Nakamura | May 26, 2006; 4:55 PM ET | Comments (44)
Find the Frontrunners
Do mayoral debate forums really matter? That's the question these days as the number of forums, debates and discussions involving the five major candidates continues to mount. Adrian Fenty has missed at least five forums, although his staff points out...
By David Nakamura | May 26, 2006; 11:38 AM ET | Comments (11)
Street Fight: D.C. Style
I watched the documentary Street Fight the other day -- the pull-no-punches look at the 2002 Newark mayoral campaign between entrenched Sharpe James and upstart Corey Booker. I had read a good review of the movie in the New Yorker...
By David Nakamura | May 25, 2006; 2:31 PM ET | Comments (17)
Ouch
Duncan Spencer, a columnist for The Hill, may not be the heppest cat on all things D.C. (Yo, Duncan, the D.C. government left 1 Judiciary Square for the Wilson Building some time ago.) But he has some vivid opinions on...
By | May 24, 2006; 5:11 PM ET | Comments (9)
Forum Update
More news from the mayoral forum front: The five leading mayoral candidates appeared before an SRO crowd of more than 800 people last night at a downtown church to pledge their fealty to the goals of the Washington Interfaith Network....
By | May 23, 2006; 2:59 PM ET | Comments (6)
D.C. Vote Passes House Committee
While I'm at it, I owe a shout-out to shadow senator Paul Strauss, who had the best line that didn't make the paper about revived legislation to give the District a vote in the U.S. House. The bill, by Del....
By | May 18, 2006; 4:33 PM ET | Comments (102)
We're Back
Today's topic: Mayoral forums -- useful exercise in democracy or tedious electoral drudgery? I think I know how your tired team of blogging newspaper reporters would vote, after giving up countless evenings to these forums. But we want to hear...
By | May 18, 2006; 2:02 PM ET | Comments (20)
