Elections

Silverman’s ouster deals a symbolic blow to the left, though progressives will still control the Council next year.

D.C.’s restaurant servers and other tipped workers will see the way they get paid shift in a profound way now that voters have passed Initiative 82, per the Associated Press.

D.C. voters overwhelmingly approved a law Tuesday phasing out the tipped minimum wage by 2027. The multi-year effort by labor groups to end businesses’ reliance on patrons’ tips to compensate workers prevailed, despite major pushback from…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser cruised to a third term in office on Tuesday, cementing her place in modern city history by becoming only the second mayor to be elected to three consecutive terms — and the first woman to do so.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is projected to win her third term leading the nation’s capital city on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, making the moderate Democrat who became known for her standoffs with the Trump administration and…

D.C. voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative Tuesday to raise the minimum wage for District workers who receive tips, after months of debate about its effects on the city’s restaurants and their employees.

Confused or convinced, energized or despondent, voters headed to the polls Tuesday across D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Their concerns — inflation, crime, abortion, the future of democracy itself — were many, but what drove them to the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A controversial proposal to change the pay structure for servers and other workers at Washington’s bars and restaurants goes before voters Tuesday, four years after approval of an identical ballot issue that was later…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Muriel Bowser was poised to coast to a third term Tuesday after a campaign focused on her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and on her history as one of the faces of Washington’s ongoing quest for statehood.

Washington’s business community is trying to win back influence at city hall through a new lobbying surge and political spending on Tuesday's key D.C. Council at-large contest.

The D.C. Board of Elections on Friday night denied a procedural appeal by D.C. Councilmember Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) of a ruling by the Office of Campaign Finance which found she misspent public campaign funds on polling ahead of a…

D.C. voters will get to decide if the city will raise the minimum wage for tipped workers such as servers, bartenders and salon workers at the ballot box on Tuesday.

The D.C. Board of Elections ruled Friday that city council member Elissa Silverman’s due-process rights were not violated when the Office of Campaign Finance determined that she misspent public campaign funds on polling for the Ward 3…

D.C. voters on Tuesday will determine the city’s mayor, several council seats and whether tipped workers should receive the full minimum wage. While Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is likely to win a third term, other contests are more heated,…

Silverman had argued that an investigation into her Ward 3 polling violated her due process rights.

Election Day likely won’t bring drastic change to the Washington this year, with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) nearly assured of a third term leading the capital city. But voters will have a second chance to weigh in on whether businesses…

D.C. bartender Max Hawla was against Initiative 82 before he was for it.

D.C. voters will elect the city’s next mayor in November.

The most heated race on the ballot in D.C.'s election this month sets up an unusual competition: Three sitting council members are running for two spots.

Big donors with close ties to the Federal City Council have poured money into “Opportunity D.C.” to boost Kenyan McDuffie.