TOM SHERWOOD
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| First lady stepping up or aside?
April 16, 2010
While preparing for his sit-down, one-on-one interview with first lady Michelle Obama last week, NBC4 anchor Jim Vance asked the TV version of the Notebook what we thought he should ask about. He knew the answer before your Notebook could even get the words out: D.C. voting rights.
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| And they're off ... !
April 01, 2010
After months of encouraging speculation, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray this week took the plunge in announcing his candidacy for mayor against incumbent Adrian Fenty.
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| The old school board is back
March 25, 2010
You remember the old school board days. They were a feeding frenzy of elected and/or appointed members weighing in on personnel and school issues large and small, questioning why this or that was or wasn't being done.
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| A teachable moment ...
March 19, 2010
Well, actually we think we have a few teachable moments this week. The first comes from Monday's daylong D.C. Council hearing on school reform.
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| A history-making ... snooze?
March 12, 2010
After a nationwide battle over same-sex marriage, it appears the issue landed with a thud in the nation's capital when it comes to criticism and opposition.
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| Snow? Oh, that was so long ago ...
March 03, 2010
Last Friday, the D.C. Council held a hearing on the city's snow removal efforts. It came just three weeks after the start of back-to-back snowstorms that flummoxed most of the region.
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| Do you really see us, Mr. President?
January 21, 2010
The annual observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has come and gone. Amid the daily worries of the nation's two wars, the horrific situation in Haiti and the battle over health care on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama used the King occasion to visit our little town.
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| Get ready, get set ... uh, don't go
January 13, 2010
Millionaire developer R. Donahue Peebles turned out to be something of a speculative bubble in Washington. He burst into town vowing or threatening — depending on whom you talked to — to spend as much as $5 million to unseat Mayor Adrian Fenty.
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| A sporting chance ...
January 06, 2010
How painful was it to watch Redskins coach Jim Zorn walk off the San Diego field on Sunday? We don't know. We turned off the television.
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