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Dick Heller Finally Able to Have Revolver in Home

The man who sued the District to overturn the city’s handgun ban has finally registered his own revolver.
After a 14-year wait, Dick Heller was able to register the weapon Monday at police headquarters. He walked out of the building clutching his yellow firearms registration certificate that was stamped, “approved.” He gave the thumbs up sign and called the effort a, “victory.” It took a month for Heller to get the registration permit for his .22 caliber revolver. Heller had to be fingerprinted,… Continue

Posted on August 18, 2008 at 5:19pm —

Jessica Golloher

Mayors Top Legal Aid Steps Down

One of the mayor’s top legal advisers quits his job. Garrett Lee stepped down from his post after Interim Attorney General Peter Nickles discovered ethics allegations against him and asked him to resign. The interim Deputy General Counsel was disbarred last week by the DC Bar Counsel, the city’s top legal ethics monitor. Lee was charged with gross negligence, incompetence, false statements and perjury. The charges stem from a divorce case Lee handled while in private practice. Bar Counsel docume… Continue

Posted on August 1, 2008 at 1:32pm —

Jessica Golloher

Lawyer Suing District Says Mayor Not Doing What's Best for Residents

The attorney for the group suing the District over its police checkpoints says the city should be doing more to protect its citizens from crime.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard is co-founder of the non-profit Partnership for Civil Justice. She went before a federal judge earlier this month to try and get a preliminary injunction to stop the checkpoints until the court decides whether they’re constitutional.

Judge Leon Swain failed to rule on the injunction saying he needed more information from both s… Continue

Posted on July 22, 2008 at 10:00am —

Jessica Golloher

Another Child Dies Under Supervision of CFSA

WAMU 88.5 News has learned that another infant under the care of the District's embattled Child and Family Services agency has died. Council member Tommy Wells is chair of the committee that oversees the agency. He says he knows very little about the four to five month-old infant except that abuse or neglect had been reported. He also added that the case was one of the nearly seventeen hundred reported to be backlogged within the agency. Wells says he's especially disheartened because he had jus… Continue

Posted on July 14, 2008 at 9:37pm —

Jessica Golloher

DC Councilmember Holding Mayor Accountable

In the wake of the recent death of a sixth-month old baby boy, the commitees on public health and human services are holding a public hearing on the District's Child and Family Services Agency. Isiah Garcia died late last month after it was reported to the CFSA hotline that the he was being neglected. The city later unveiled that the social worker in charge of the case never visited the child or his family. As a result, the caseworker was fired and her supervisor was put on administrative leave… Continue

Posted on July 13, 2008 at 6:15pm —

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At 7:36am on August 9, 2008, Mike Cherlow said…
heard you from China, congrats on the posting. Bring home a gold for WAMU
At 4:20pm on June 17, 2008, Anthony (WAMU 88.5) said…
Nice blog, Jess.
At 1:28pm on June 5, 2008, Lettie Holman (WAMU 88.5) said…
Glad to be invited. Thanks.
At 10:31pm on June 4, 2008, David Furst said…
Why hello there "Conversation Friend!" Thanks!
At 11:06am on May 22, 2008, Jason Novak (WAMU 88.5) said…
Tara's right. How can we promote Golloblog when it still has the sinister gray man avatar? At least use one of these fun purple ones. :-)
At 10:02am on May 22, 2008, Tara said…
Thank you, faceless avatar! :) When are you going to put your own cute pic up?
 
 

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