WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia is preparing a contingency plan to deliver essential services in case of a federal government shutdown. Mayor Vincent Gray said Monday that the D.C. government is the only U.S. jurisdiction prohibited from spending local ...

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WASHINGTON — An effort to require Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees a “living wage” of at least $12.50 an hour met its end Tuesday when the D.C. Council failed to override Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto. The ...

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WASHINGTON — An effort to require Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees a “living wage” of at least $12.50 an hour met its end Tuesday when the D.C. Council failed to override Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto. The ...

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WASHINGTON — Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed a bill Thursday that would force Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees at least $12.50 an hour, calling it a “job killer” that would not advance the goal of a living ...

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the D.C. Council says a bill requiring Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees at least $12.50 an hour will be on Mayor Vincent Gray’s desk by Friday. The council approved the bill ...

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WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray says he has appointed members of a task force that will investigate solutions to power outages caused by severe storms. Gray also announced the first meeting of the Mayor’s Task Force on ...

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WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has given away the money donated to his campaign by a businessman tied to a federal probe of District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign. O’Malley spokesman Rick Abbruzzese tells The Washington Post the ...

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WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was elected in 2010 with the aid of $650,000 in illicit funds from a district businessman, a Gray campaign consultant acknowledged in federal court Tuesday. Eugenia “Jeanne” Clarke Harris’s guilty plea confirmed ...

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WASHINGTON — Phil Mendelson was selected Wednesday as interim chairman of the scandal-plagued D.C. Council, pledging to restore trust in a legislative body that’s lost two members this year to criminal convictions. Mendelson replaces Kwame Brown, who resigned last week ...

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WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the District of Columbia Council pleaded guilty Friday to lying about his income on bank loan applications, the latest blow to a city government rocked by scandal. Kwame Brown also admitted to a misdemeanor ...

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