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Former Mayor of D.C. Anthony Williams Washington D.C., Mar 25, 2009 / 02:25 pm (CNA).- Despite extreme positions on abortion and same-sex “marriage,” the Washington Post reports that Anthony Williams, a former mayor of Washington D.C., is being considered for membership in the Knights of Malta. However, Dr. Joseph Metz, an officer of the Order of Malta American Association, told CNA that anyone who does not agree with Church teachings will be denied admission. The Knights of Malta, who earned their name by operating on the Island of Malta for hundreds of years, were created “to care for and...

During Mayor Anthony A. Williams's final months in office, his personnel director improperly gave 28 top appointees two sets of bonuses totaling more than $525,000, according to a report by the D.C. auditor. The 16-page report says Lisa Marin approved higher bonuses than the mayor's office recommended and lacked required paperwork and authorizing signatures. Supporting documents, some of which were eventually submitted, are required to verify that the employees did outstanding work and qualified for bonuses. Among those awarded bonuses were senior Williams administration officials, including the city administrator, the police chief, three deputy mayors, the chief of staff, agency...

DC Mayor To Bulldoze Ruth Bader Ginsberg's House For Homeless Shelter ABC 'Home Makeover' team commissioned to evict JusticeMayor Williams, announcing the domocilic ouster of Justice Ginsberg. Washington- In an immediate municipal action based upon the just-released ruling by the United States Supreme Court, DC Mayor Anthony Williams has announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg "needs to start packing" as the city's plans for a suburban homeless shelter have finally been vetted. Ginsberg was one of five justices who ruled that city governments may seize private property in the name of furthering beneficial municipal programs. "We are allowing time for...

Ex-president Bill Clinton is endorsing Nation of Islam chief Minister Louis Farrakahan's "Million More March" over the objections of the Anti-Defamation League, which is urging top politicians to avoid the October event because they say that both Farrakhan and march organizer Malik Zulu Shabazz are anti-Semitic. "I think this is a very positive idea,” Clinton told the Amsterdam News this week in an interview from his Harlem office. "I like the idea of a march," he continued. "It’s fine to be concerned about [homeland] security, but we also have to keep trying to make America strong and better here at...

Calling the rising cost of medical liability insurance "unacceptable," D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams yesterday urged the D.C. Council to provide some relief for doctors. He introduced the Health Care Reform Act of 2005, flanked by physicians and other medical officials who said they are being forced to practice elsewhere, making it more difficult for city residents to get adequate health care. "We have the dubious distinction of having among the very highest medical liability insurance premiums in the nation and the highest jury awards in the nation," Mr. Williams said.

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Linda W. Cropp, the newly fashioned woman of the people, is drawing kudos from certain corners of the city, which is understandable. That is not the work of a populist. That is just another politician motivated by self-interests.

Washington Mayor Says Baseball Deal Nearly Dead Sports - Reuters By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deal to bring Major League Baseball back to Washington, D.C, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as close to dead Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan to require private financing. "I believe the deal is broken. The dream is now close to dying," he said. "We're in great jeopardy here, and I think I'm being optimistic." The City Council Tuesday approved a financing plan for a new waterfront stadium to host what would become the Washington Nationals baseball team, but added...

Education Leaders Council Praises Senate Passage of D.C. School Choice Legislation 1/22/04 6:01:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Kimberly Tulp of Education Leaders Council, (202) 261-2605; e-mail: kbt@educationleaders.org; Nicole Keating of FitzGerald Communications, 202-973-4788; e-mail: nkeating@fitzgerald.com WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Committed to education reform policies and programs that pave the way for all students to access high quality education, Education Leaders Council Board Chairman Jim Horne and CEO Lisa Graham Keegan today lauded Senate passage of the DC School Choice Legislation. "Due to the unflagging efforts of not only members of Congress, but also local and...

Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams tonight called for "respectful" civil disobedience to call attention to the District's lack of full voting rights in Congress.Mr. Williams made his remarks to a reporter for WTTG-TV at a gathering to mark the ruling Democratic party's faux presidential primary election held today.The city's leaders fought the Democratic National Committee to hold the first-in-the-nation primary to highlight the lack of full congressional representation for D.C. residents.The city backed off from holding an official primary, but went ahead with today's beauty contest.The WTTG reporter mentioned that one form of civil disobedience under consideration is blocking the...

District of Columbia Democratic Presidential Primary Updated 1/13/04 9:20 PM ET 68% Precincts Reporting Incumbent* declared winner Candidates Votes % Howard Dean 7,586 42 Al Sharpton 6,254 35 Carol Moseley Braun 2,092 12 Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich 1,465 8 Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. 220 1 Arthur H. Jackson Jr. 109 1 Florence Walker 104 1 Vermin Supreme 56 0 Harry Braun III 29 0 Jeanne Chebib 18 0 Lucian Wojciechowski 11 0 Source: AP EDITOR'S NOTE: Primary results are only advisory. Official allocation of D.C.'s 16 pledged delegates to the National Democratic Convention occurs during the D.C. Democratic Caucus on...

President Bush's bipartisan education reform initiative, The No Child Left Behind Act, has increased public school education spending by 40 percent and has provided more funds to poor children than any other education bill in this country's history. So why is the secretary of education, Rod Paige, so upset? "The most egregious issue that we must confront as a minority is the achievement gap between the performance of minority kids and their peers," Paige said, while pacing behind a long lacquered table in his downtown D.C. office. According to the 2000 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, 63 percent...

<p>The pope, a venerable leader throughout the Christian world, says don't do it. Tony Williams, the mayor of Washington, D.C., says, please, indulge yourself. Whose advice would you follow?</p> <p>Both the pope and the politician are speaking of promiscuity in general and HIV/AIDS in particular. Monday, as part of World AIDS Day, while Pope John Paul II and theRoman Catholic Church were warning us against hedonistic lifestyles, the mayor and other lefties were promoting condoms. Renew your D.C. driver's license and pick up a condom when you're done. Boogie the night away at one of the city's hot spots and grab a condom in the ladies room before you hit the door. Got your eye on a sweet young thing, but don't have the dough to buy condoms? Stop by your neighborhood barbershop and pick up a few for free.</p>

<p>Opponents of the D.C. school-voucher program said yesterday they will combine efforts to kill the initiative in the Senate.</p> <p>Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and other opponents "will use all the tools available to them to try to defeat this legislation on the Senate floor," said James Manley, spokesman for the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.</p>

Congress Returns To Church-State Issues On Agenda ( ABP) -- When Congress returns to session next week from its month-long summer recess, a host of church-state issues will be on the agenda – from gay marriage to school vouchers. The most visible debate may be over gay marriage. A proposed constitutional amendment that would limit marriage and marriage-like benefits to opposite-sex couples -- in some cases overturning state and local laws -- appears to be picking up momentum in Congress. The Federal Marriage Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.), will likely receive committee hearings in the early fall....

<p>In one of this year's most popular comedies, Will Farrell plays a pathetic, but humorous beer-bellied guy, returning to college to form a fraternity of like-minded souls haplessly "flunking out" of living in the present. A few kegs short of their undergraduate drinking requirements, Mr. Farrell and his fellow bacchanal-loving friends relive their misspent youth in the movie "Old School."</p>

California educators have joined a political battle over a plan to let families use school vouchers, or taxpayer money for private tuition, to escape failing campuses. But the fight isn't in California. It's nearly 3,000 miles away, in the public schools of Washington, D.C., where lawmakers are poised to create the nation's first federally funded voucher program. The program would set a precedent that supporters hope will open the door for vouchers all over the country. What happens in the faraway district could affect whether a similar school voucher plan eventually makes it into the classrooms of California, where 70...

<p>Memo to Ralph Neas: People for the American Way doesn't decide whom the Democratic Mayor of Washington meets with. The Mayor does. And he resents being told otherwise.</p> <p>We have that from a spokesman for D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, who calls just plain "silly" a letter from the liberal lobby warning his Hizzoner about his scheduled appearance yesterday before a conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of free-market state legislators in Washington for their annual meeting.</p>

...unlike the members of the public education/Democrat political machine, Mayor Williams has a true regard for the supposed objects of the public education debate - the children. For far too long, big government liberals have gotten away with portraying themselves as having concern for the welfare of the children, when what they really seek is an ever-growing budget for the education bureaucracy. "The children" end up merely as fodder to be fed into the system in order to keep its engines running. Worst of all, the budgetary patterns of recent years have established a scheme that essentially guarantees continued academic...

In his recent bestseller, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes the magic moment when an idea, product, or trend achieves mainstream status. Cell phones, for example, "tipped" in 1998. Cellular technology and sales improved steadily throughout the 1990s, but it wasn't until 1998 that people realized the phones were everywhere. News from the nation's capital suggests 2003 could be the "tipping point" for school choice. If that's the case, events in the District of Columbia may impact Arizona politics. Anthony Williams — the Democratic mayor of a city where Republicans are outnumbered nine to one — recently bucked party loyalties...

Like Mayor's Hair, Robbery At NE Barbershop Is Cut Short "The owner of Campbell's Barber Shop, where Mayor Anthony A. Williams recently got a new hairstyle, apparently keeps more than a razor and scissors at the ready...."

When Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams announced on May 1 that he supported school vouchers programs, it made headlines. How could it not? A Black Democrat, mayor of one of the most staunchly Democratic and heavily African-American cities in the U.S., was endorsing an idea long championed by conservative Republicans. What it didn’t create was a local uproar. There were no major protests from D.C. citizens. No one on the Mayor’s staff quit. Few rivals dared attack him. “Could it be … a majority of African Americans prefer school vouchers to other educational improvement plans?” asked Washington Post columnist Courtland...

"Mayor Anthony A. Williams is asking the D.C. Council to approve $338 million in city government funding for a new ballpark and renovations to RFK Stadium, a package larger than he had previously disclosed and millions of dollars more than other areas bidding for a team have offered," according to The Washington Post. "The two other bidders, Northern Virginia and Portland, Ore., offered less than $300 million in public funding for a stadium. Williams had previously said that he would not go higher than that amount." In "Squeeze Play: Do Baseball Stadiums Need Our Bucks to Get Built?", Raymond J....

<p>Eleanor Holmes Norton is stark raving mad. The congressional delegate from the District of Columbia accused her fellow Democrat, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, of "selling out" last week because he supports a Bush administration-backed school choice proposal that would free thousands of poor black students from rotten public schools.</p>

Eleanor Holmes Norton is stark raving mad. The congressional delegate from the District of Columbia accused her fellow Democrat, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, of "selling out" last week because he supports a Bush administration-backed school choice proposal that would free thousands of poor black students from rotten public schools. The D.C. School Choice Act, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., would provide $45 million over five years for means-tested educational scholarships for up to 8,300 students in the beleaguered D.C. public school system. President Bush has earmarked a total of $75 million for similar programs across the country. Mayor...

Low-income students in Washington, D.C., could get as much as $11,000 apiece in private-school tuition under a plan proposed by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). The D.C. plan dwarfs other tax- supported vouchers available to students elsewhere. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, a Democrat, last week spoke out for the first time in support of voucher. Observers say this is a dramatic change in course and an indication that the city is willing to try the experiment for some of its 67,000 students. Under the plan: o Vouchers would be available to students whose families earn less than $52,000 for a family...

The unlikely new leader of the drive to give vouchers to D.C. schoolchildren is himself a product of Catholic schooling and a politician drawn more to possibilities of experimentation than to the comfort of the tried and true. A day after stunning much of the city, and much of his staff, by abruptly announcing his support for President Bush's school voucher plan, District Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) sought to shed more light on what he portrayed as an ideological transformation. At the root of his new position, he said, was a readiness to try to new approaches to fixing...

Buried in the president's budget this week was enough money to dramatically transform educational opportunity for children in the nation's capital, one of the worst school systems in the country. As part of his continuing program to leave no child behind, President Bush has proposed a modest $756 million to promote school choice programs in the District of Columbia and several other cities. But the proposal faces tough opposition from Democrats beholden to teacher unions, who see school vouchers as a mortal threat. Nowhere could there be a starker contrast between what's good for kids and what's in the...