Stories by Warren Rojas:
May 6, 2013
Rep. Jason Chaffetz suffered a rude awakening Sunday, when his lunch plans were foiled by a pair of tightly shuttered doors.
April 26, 2013
White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner weekend got under way Thursday night, and the pretty, pretty people were all about shaking their groove things at Rock the Vote’s “Spin Room” fiesta at Heist.
April 25, 2013
Barracks Row breakfast titan Ted’s Bulletin is branching out yet again — this time, hopping across the river to give Northern Virginians a taste of what they’ve been missing.
April 25, 2013
Forget the furloughed air traffic controllers everyone on Capitol Hill can’t stop yakking about. Check out who the airlines have had to dispatch to the front lines:
April 25, 2013
It’s unclear whether Sen. Jack Reed, R.I., was merely mugging for the camera,
April 25, 2013
After a jokey roll-out earlier this month, President William J. Clinton has now officially plunged down the Twitter rabbit hole.
April 24, 2013
A group of Ward 6 residents is looking beyond the eyesore that is a rundown government warehouse to a pedestrian-friendly shopping and dining complex that would theoretically bolster the local economy.
April 24, 2013
Maine solons Susan Collins and Angus King hung out with a few hundred of their new best friends Tuesday night at the inaugural Taste of Maine reception.
April 23, 2013
It’s still days before the glitterati cram into the Washington Hilton for the annual running of the bullpucky known as “Nerd Prom,” but we’re already looking forward to the next stop of the black-tie brigade: the Mardi Gras-themed Radio & Television Congressional Correspondents’ Dinner.
April 23, 2013
Nearly two dozen hospitality vendors — including breweries, distilleries and celeb-endorsed sweets-makers — will give homesick New Englanders what they’ve been missing most during Tuesday night’s Taste of Maine reception in the Russell Senate Office Building.
April 22, 2013
The wild ride that is the White House Correspondents Dinner begins gaining steam this Thursday, picks up speed Friday night and barrels forward for the balance of Saturday before crashing into dueling brunches.
April 22, 2013
Forget the man-on-the-street shtick. NPR personality Peter Sagal became a biker on the beat during his almost two-month road trip across the country for PBS’ new historical series “Constitution USA.”
April 22, 2013
Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., who, for some reason or another in 2011 abruptly resigned from office/bailed on the social mediaverse, burst back onto the scene Monday:
April 19, 2013
Dear cannabis-worshipping political activists with a half-decade to kill — have we got the event for you.
April 19, 2013
It’s been an unbelievably taxing week.
April 18, 2013
If they didn’t remind him to stop every once in a while and grab a bite, staff suspect perpetually engaged Rep. Scott Rigell would miss out on some much-needed calories.
April 18, 2013
Note to public relations gurus in Washington: There is more to life than putting words in people’s mouths.
April 18, 2013
Toward the end of Wednesday night’s “Sidecar Conversation Series” on the love/hate relationship between Hollywood and D.C. — a discussion which was, at turns, self-congratulatory and hyper critical — moderator Ron Brownstein asked the entertainment-savvy panelists to name the defining political flick.
April 18, 2013
If staffer Bret Manley has learned anything during his time on Capitol Hill, it’s that certain things are inevitable.
April 18, 2013
Sounds like Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., is thrilled to learn that he’s got a secret admirer in the think tank scourge, the Panel Crasher.
April 17, 2013
Senate staffers in the Hart Office Building spent part of their morning stuck in a holding pattern after reports of suspicious packages shut down the first and third floors.
April 16, 2013
His war record notwithstanding, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is one brave man.
April 15, 2013
Immigration
April 15, 2013
The twin blasts that rocked the Boston Marathon Monday sparked an outpouring of support from suddenly somber and reflective pols. The one thing they almost all defaulted to was prayer:
April 15, 2013
World leaders might be getting worried about what North Korean leader Kim Jung Un is up to.
