BROWN COMMENDS HOUSE GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE’S APPROVAL OF DC VOTING RIGHTS ACT
May 19, 2006 by damianfagon@me.com
Filed under The People's Blog, Voting Rights
WASHINGTON – Councilmember At-Large Kwame R. Brown commends the House Committee on Government Reform for strongly demonstrating support of the DC Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act, (H.R. 5388) introduced by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and Representative Tom Davis. The House Committee on Government Reform Committee passed the DC Voting Rights bill by a [...]
BROWN EXPRESSES SUPPORT OF DC FAIR AND EQUAL HOUSE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND URGES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT D.C. STATEHOOD
May 18, 2006 by damianfagon@me.com
Filed under The People's Blog, Voting Rights
WASHINGTON – Councilmember At-Large Kwame R. Brown expressed his continued support for DC Statehood by strongly supporting the DC Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act, (H.R. 5388) introduced by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and Representative Tom Davis. The House Government Reform Committee is scheduled to markup the DC Voting Rights Act today. Below is [...]
BROWN SUGGESTS WIZARDS OWNER GIVE PORTION OF RENOVATION FUNDS TO HELP EASTERN MARKET VENDORS
May 3, 2006 by damianfagon@me.com
Filed under Community Action, Local Investment, The People's Blog
WASHINGTON – Today, Councilmember Kwame R. Brown asked Abe Pollin, Washington Wizards owner to join in the District’s efforts to provide emergency relief to local vendors and business owners that lost their earnings, assets in the fire at Eastern Market.
In a letter to Mr. Pollin, Councilmember Brown asked the Washington Wizards owner to consider [...]
BROWN COMMENTS ON SELECTION OF LERNER’S OWNERSHIP OF NATIONALS
May 3, 2006 by damianfagon@me.com
Filed under Local Investment, Neighborhood Revitalization, The People's Blog
WASHINGTON – Following the decision of Major League Baseball’s selection of the Lerner’s as the Washington Nationals new owners, Councilmember Brown releases the following statement.
“Today is a historical moment in the District of Columbia and for Major League Baseball. All competing groups represent strong crop of individuals Let us now move forward, with the same [...]
BROWN EXPRESSES THE NEED TO COLLABORATE WITH D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET
May 2, 2006 by damianfagon@me.com
Filed under Intensify Education, The People's Blog
WASHINGTON – Councilmember At-Large Kwame R. Brown co-introduced “The School Budget Purpose Charter Amendment Act of 2006,” to expand the D.C. Council’s role in reviewing and approving the annual budget for the Board of Education. Currently under the regulations established in the Home Rule Act of 1973, the Council can only vote on the final [...]
BROWN EXPRESSES NEED FOR PUBLIC IMPUT TO RESTORE MLK LIBRARY
May 2, 2006 by damianfagon@me.com
Filed under Community Action, Local Investment, The People's Blog
WASHINGTON - Councilmember At-Large Kwame R. Brown expressed his support of Councilmember Kathy Patterson’s, Chair of the Committee on Education, Libraries and Recreation, recommendation to remove provisions to rebuild the District’s central library, The Martin Luther King Memorial Library from the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Support Act of 2006. Councilmember Brown believes that the proposed construction [...]
