All posts by John Riley
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Monica Palacio To Lead OHR
Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) announced Thursday plans to appoint the Office of Human Rights (OHR) Language Access Program Director Mónica Palacio as the interim...
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DNA Sought from Suspect in Gay Columbia Heights Killing
D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin announced late last week that he will issue an order, sought by prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office...
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Mental Health Delay for Suspect in Deoni Jones Homicide
Gary Niles Montgomery, the Northeast D.C. man accused of killing transgender woman Deoni Jones in February 2012, is now undergoing a 30-day mental observation following...
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Joe McCarthy, Co-Conspirators On Trial
The newly resurgent Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., will present a ''mock trial'' pursuit of criminal conspiracy and blackmail charges against deceased U.S. Sens. Joseph...
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AIDS Walk To Honor Sean Sasser
The 27th AIDS Walk Washington, the annual fundraising event for community health center Whitman-Walker Health and its partner organizations, has announced that it will honor...
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Coverboy: Khoa
Born in Vietnam, now in Springfield, Coverboy Khoa has dreams of making it big in the fashion industry. The 22-year-old receptionist for his family's nail...
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Mizeur nets Eastern Shore endorsements; Gansler picks Ivey as running mate
The three-way race for the Democratic nod to become Maryland’s next governor continues to build steam, with Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.) and Attorney General...
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Moving Forward with Annie's Way
A bill to designate a section of Church Street NW as ''Annie's Way,'' in honor of the legacy of Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, a popular LGBT-friendly...
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Post endorsement of Northam, Herring knocks Republicans, gives Democrats clean sweep
“Where Mr. Northam, a fiscal conservative, is measured and moderate – Republicans tried to persuade him to switch parties in 2009 – Mr. Jackson is...
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Stein Dems Prepare for Club Elections
Martin Garcia, president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the District's largest LGBT political group, and Angela Peoples, the group's vice president for political and...
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Times-Dispatch op-ed blasts Tech PAC’s backing of Cuccinelli
“Many of us perform balancing acts when making political endorsements. Yet this begs the question: What positions should disqualify a candidate entirely from consideration? What...
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Virginia Readies for Election Day
The Virginia governor's race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis has been grabbing most of the political headlines, but the...
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13 Virginia Races to Watch in 2013
In Virginia's elections for the House of Delegates, 44 seats have candidates running unopposed, while 56 seats are being contested. The following list includes some...
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Carson Found Guilty in IHOP Shooting
A D.C. Superior Court jury today found 28-year-old Lashawn Carson guilty of aggravated assault while armed and related weapons charges for shooting a gay man...
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Two polls show McAuliffe leading Cuccinelli in Virginia governor’s race
Two recent polls show Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe leading Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the race for Virginia governor, but both candidates have less...
