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...At issue is an attempt by local councillors to overhaul the District of Columbia’s criminal code....
...About 340 members of the District of Columbia National Guard, a reserve of citizen-soldiers who serve on a part-time basis, will be on duty in the city following Ms Bowser’s request to the Pentagon for their...
...Robert Contee, chief of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, said “you can expect to see somewhere upwards of 20,000” National Guard members in Washington for the inauguration....
...Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the District of Columbia, called a curfew between 6pm on Wednesday and 6am on Thursday to maintain public order....
...“Obviously it was a failure or you would not have had police lines breached,” Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the District of Columbia, said on Thursday, adding the day’s events had raised concerns about the...
...When Muriel Bowser was running for District of Columbia mayor six years ago, she told the Washington Post that having the eyes of the city trained on her was “unnatural”....
...The bill would make the District of Columbia — which forms Washington — the 51st state in the union and give it full representation in Congress, with two senators and one voting House member....
...A skilled tech worker in British Columbia earns about C$1,600 a week, compared with C$3,400 in California, according to BC Stats, a government agency....
...The working-class boy now inhabits a vast mansion on a side street of Paris’s chic Saint-Germain district....
...Residents in Sandtown, the Baltimore district where Gray lived, said his death was just the spark that ignited longstanding concerns about police brutality and economic decay in inner-city ghettos....
...The US attorney for the District of Columbia, who is black, brought charges against a local (and black) businessman for illegally financing a “shadow campaign” in 2010 on behalf of the incumbent mayor, Vincent...
...“Mayor Gray has chosen jobs, economic development and common sense over special interests – and that’s good news for D.C. residents,” said Steven Restivo, a spokesman for Walmart....
...Vincent Gray, Washington mayor, said there was no information about the potential motivation for the attack, but he said “we have no reason to believe” there was any link to terrorism....
...in the District of Columbia....
...But Vincent Gray, the mayor, vetoed the legislation, in a win for the groups. Hotels The hospitality sector is another industry that is in for big changes as minimum wage hikes spread across the US....
...AFT and other unions contributed more than $1m to the election campaign of Fenty’s opponent, Vincent Gray, who is now Washington’s mayor. Rhee resigned with Fenty....
...Vincent Gray, the mayor, comes to speak and offer support. When Barry takes the stage, he is tired and cuts his speech in half....
...“It’s not like they are going to turn the lights out on Friday,” says Pedro Ribeiro, communications director for the Washington government, led by Mayor Vincent Gray....
...“We are getting people diagnosed with HIV infection earlier and directly into care with our treatment-on-demand policy,” Vincent Gray, Washington’s mayor, said in June....
...They included Han Zheng, who became mayor of Shanghai in 2003, a position he still holds....
...A federal state of emergency was declared in New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island, allowing access to emergency relief...
...Nothing elevates the status of a burgeoning district in Washington DC like a visit from the president and first lady of the US....
...The newly elected mayor, Vincent Gray (campaign slogan “one city”) stands accused of nepotism run riot, putting cronies and the children of advisors into city jobs at inflated salaries, as if it were his...
...Vincent C Gray, Washington’s mayor, said the development had been almost a decade in the making, describing it as the “last missing piece of our downtown”....
...Mr Fenty – who had championed Michelle Rhee, his education commissioner, whose tenure now looks precarious – was defeated by Vincent Gray, a rival Democrat who had been critical of Ms Rhee’s reforms and...
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