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• The 2013 Taste of Washington DC: Sip, Savor and Enjoy

  
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  The revamp and relaunch of Taste of DC Food Festival on Pennsylvania Avenue is taking place over Columbus Day Weekend.  Steuart Martens is launching a series of one-day foodie events that will focus on marquee chefs, unique dishes and generous drink options.  The whole objective of Taste of DC is to change ...
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• Its Official: Blacks Voted at Higher Rate than Whites in 2012 Election and Black Women Surpassed Everyone

  
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  WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2013 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation ( The National Coalition ) and convener of Black Womens Roundtable issued the following statement in response to a U.S. Census Bureau report released yesterday finding ...
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• Census Bureau Report Confirms that Blacks Voted at a Higher Rate than Whites in 2012 Election and Black Women Surpassed Everyone

  
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  WASHINGTON, D.C. /eNewsChannels/ — NEWS May 9, 2013: Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) and convener of Black Women’s Roundtable issued the following statement in response to a U.S. Census Bureau report released yesterday finding ...
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• What We Know (and Don’t) About the Drops in DC Homelessness Rates

  
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  In my last post , I summarized the major results of the latest point-in-time, i.e. , one-night, count of homeless people in the District of Columbia. We see one-year decreases for the homeless population as a whole and for all the subgroups the District reports to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...
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• DC Homelessness Rates Trend Downward, But Still Very High

  
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  The upsurge in homelessness in the District of Columbia seems to have abated — at least for the time being. The actual numbers, however, remain very high. And while homelessness among individual adults is now lower than in 2008, when the recession had just set in, family homelessness is still exponentially higher. ...
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• WATCH: History Of Marriage Equality Laws In United States

  
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  With Delawares dramatic movement yesterday to become the 11th state to enact marriage equality since 2003  (and the second state this year   after Rhode Island ) its a good time to look back at how far the issue of marriage equality has come in the last four decades. The cool graphic created by The Atlantic ...
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• Washington Police Will Arrest All Armed Protesters At The July 4th Protest

  
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  The District of Columbia’s police chief said Tuesday officers would arrest marchers who plan to openly carry rifles into the city in violation of District law. “Passing into the District of Columbia with loaded firearms is a violation of the law and we’ll have to treat it as such,” Metropolitan Police ...
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• Appeals court strikes down union poster rule

  
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  WASHINGTON — In another blow to the nation’s dwindling labor unions, an appeals court on Tuesday struck down a federal rule that would have required millions of businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the ...
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• Is the Marketplace Fairness Act Fair for Wineries?

  
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  In short, yes, for a couple of reasons: 1. Wineries already pay sales tax in most states 2. The vast majority of wineries will likely be exempt from the law So what is it, exactly? Senate Bill S. 743 , more commonly known as the “ Marketplace Fairness Act “, is a pretty simple bill that would give states the ...
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• Mobile phone carriers profit from phone theft ‘are not innocent,’ says DC police chief

  
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  Carriers benefit from phone theft. Theft of mobile phones is a massive and growing problem, accounting for more than 40 percent of all thefts in San Francisco in 2012. But is that a good thing for mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon?     According to one police chief, yes. District of Columbia police chief ...
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• D.C. Sees Increase of About 1 Million Visitors in 2012

  
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  WASHINGTON — Washington saw an increase of about 1 million visitors last year, one of its largest in a decade, counting a record 18.9 million tourists at the nation’s capital in 2012, officials announced Tuesday. Statistics released by the tourism bureau Destination D.C. show a 5.5 percent increase in total ...
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• Jeffrey Thompson accused of obstruction in Mayor Gray corruption case

  
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  Federal prosecutors have accused a D.C. businessman at the center of a far-reaching corruption probe into Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign of obstructing their investigation, according to a court order unsealed Monday. Read full article >>        
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• Senate OKs Internet sales taxes, bill goes to House

  
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  Internet taxes? Not so fast. A bill that would let states collect Internet sales taxes from online retailers and their customers may have sailed through the Senate, but it is expected to face much more resistance from tax-wary Republicans in the House. Though the Marketplace Fairness Act, sponsored by Sens. Richard ...
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• DC Councilman: ‘Change That Shameful Name’

  
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  District of Columbia Councilman David Grosso has introduced a resolution that Washington’s professional football team should change its racist, derogatory name , the one beginning with “R.” It’s a non-binding resolution, to say the least; the team doesn’t even play in DC anymore. Removing Native ...
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• Nebraska Lethal Injection Drug News

  
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  "Portion of Nebraskas supply of lethal injection drug set to expire," is the Lincoln Journal Star report by Kevin OHanlon. As a federal appeals court considers whether Nebraska and other states must surrender their foreign-made supplies of a lethal injection...
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• Memorializing Eisenhower Or Not

  
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  Ive mentioned the planned Eisenhower Memorial   before ... its original design, by Frank Gehry, seemed a little flukey, but on the other hand, too many of our public monuments seem to become paeans to the artistic values of the last century -- to wit, the ruin of the original clean design of the Vietnam War ...
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• GRAPHIC: Current Map Of Marriage Equality

  
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  USA Today   published an update on the current state of marriage equality and published the above graphic so that readers could visualize the changes. Hat/tip to Joe.My.God
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• Who says Mayo Clinic has a clue? Prosecutors want Jackson health issue

  
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  All through the whole Jesse Jackson, Jr. saga, there have been those (usually with an ideological or racial leaning – if not both) who have insisted that all the talk of the now-former Congressman needing medical treatment was some sort of scam. JACKSON: Will his health be on trial? The fact ...
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• DC Among Most Air-Polluted U.S. Cities

  
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  WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — The American Lung Association is out with its annual Air Quality Report Card and, suffice it to stay, the D.C. area may need to stay after class. The entire Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, including Northern Virginia, is number 9 on the ALA’s top 10 list of the most ozone-polluted ...
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• Balloon Over Arlington Cemetery Tomorrow

  
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  Expect to see a large tethered balloon over Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow afternoon. The balloon will be flying over the cemetery between noon and 7:00 p.m. to “to help conduct a height study of Washington, D.C.,” according to Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall spokesman Stephen Satkowski. The study ...
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