Archive for December, 2009
DC Statehood Fund Holiday Gifts
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Order by midnight, December 17th for standard shipping delivery by the 24th!
I have three questions for you:
1) Are you still looking for the perfect holiday gift?
2) Do you like snarky T-shirts?
3) Do you want to support the DC Statehood Fund?
If the the answer was “yes” to any of the above, then look no further as [...]
$250,000 in Competitive Grants Available for Organizations Working on DC Statehood & Voting Rights
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009UPDATE: According to the Office of the Secretary, the details of the grant are not ready for release. Stay tuned for a future update regarding the procedure and timing. In the meantime, get your thinking caps on…
The following grant notice was distributed last week at the Statehood Stakeholders meeting. I don’t have more details beyond [...]
More on Lifting DC Riders
Friday, December 11th, 2009As I wrote yesterday, DC is finally free to implement laws and spend money on programs related to abortion, medical marijuana, and needle-exchange programs as Congress had stripped away the anti-democratic riders that usurped these aspects of home rule. Here’s a great statement from Delegate Norton on what the lifting these riders in the annual [...]
District Appropriation Bill Clears Conference Committee
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Good news from the Capitol, the District’s annual appropriation bill has cleared the conference committee with many of the egregious riders being stripped off. The District’s long-standing prohibitions on spending city funds on medical marijuana, needle-exchange programs and abortion will finally be lifted.
Directly from the Senate Appropriation Committee’s web site:
Removing Special Restrictions on the [...]
Google and other Companies to Give DC’s Low-Income Families Free Wireless Broadband
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Yesterday at Kramer Middle School in Anacostia the One Economy Corporation, Cricket Wireless, Google and Qualcomm announced their collaboration to provide 1,000 D.C.-area low-income families free wireless broadband for two years. One Economy will be working with area community organizations to identify the families to receive the broadband cards. Over the next several weeks, up [...]
