Category Archives: District of Columbia

Implementation of Combined Reporting Would Close D.C. Corporate Tax Loophole

Posted on March 18, 2011 by admin

LISTEN TO ED LAZERE: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “Should a locally-owned hardware store be taxed more than a branch of a national retailer?” asked DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s Jenny Reed and Elissa Silverman in a … Continue reading →

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Medallions May be a Trojan Horse for D.C. Taxicab Industry

Posted on March 17, 2011 by admin

Download the proposed DC taxicab medallion bill. Throughout the U.S., in city after city, taxicab drivers are forced to become the equivalent of modern day sharecroppers. Despite working long hours and generating great wealth, taxicab drivers are often not the … Continue reading →

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A Message To Metro

Posted on March 9, 2011 by admin

LISTEN TO MIKE GOLASH: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “Our message to Metro on Thursday is that they better make a careful calculation,” said Mike Golash, a recently retired Metro bus operator and former president of … Continue reading →

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Councilmembers Evans, Brown and Thomas Call for Pope’s Return to Hardy

Posted on March 4, 2011 by admin

“I have been very supportive of chancellors, of school reform, and I’ve sat here for a year and a half waiting for this issue to get solved and as of last Friday it was worse than it has ever been,” … Continue reading →

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Activist/Organizer Larry Bryant On AIDS 2012 Coming to D.C. and the Mayor’s Commission on HIV/AIDS

Posted on February 28, 2011 by admin

LISTEN TO LARRY BRYANT, PART 2 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Friday, as the city’s leading provider of clean needles closed its doors, Mayor Vincent Gray announced that the District of Columbia will host the 2012 … Continue reading →

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Gray Welcomes World AIDS Community to D.C.; Does Nothing to Stop Leading Clean Needle Provider From Closing

Posted on February 25, 2011 by admin

LISTEN TO DAMI SMITH [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Friday at 11:00 AM at the John A. Wilson Building, Mayor Vincent Gray will take part in a press conference announcing that D.C. will host the 2012 … Continue reading →

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Is HIV/AIDS a Top Priority for D.C.’s Leaders?

Posted on February 24, 2011 by admin

LISTEN TO LARRY BRYANT, PART 1 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 PreventionWorks is scheduled to close tomorrow and D.C.’s top elected officials – who have been uninformed or misinformed – have expressed little-to-no interest in having … Continue reading →

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Mr. President, Come Home With Your Rhetoric

Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

“Congress rules over this colony called the District of Columbia,” said Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate and many time presidential candidate. “For over two hundred years, [residents of the District of Columbia] haven’t had the right that all other Americans … Continue reading →

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The Adams Morgan Hotel and the “Sucker’s List”

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

Live simply so that others may simply live. – Mahatma Gandhi Dec. 21, in a 9-3 vote, the D.C. Council passed emergency legislation providing $46 million in tax abatements for the construction of a 5-star luxury boutique hotel in the … Continue reading →

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Historic McMillan Park Threatened by Luxury Condos

Posted on January 26, 2011 by admin

January 4, 2011, on “More Room On the Outside,” Tony Norman, a veteran activist, member of the McMillan Park Committee and newly-elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, discussed the history of McMillan Park and the threat it now faces. McMillan Park is … Continue reading →

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