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January 22, 2009 - As expected, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has been elected to chair the Democratic National Committee.
Bill Redlin reports...
January 22, 2009 - Several members of D.C. Vote, a local voting rights organization, say they will continue to ask President Obama to highlight what they've called "the modern civil rights struggle."
Kavitha Cardoza reports...
January 22, 2009 - Congress's Inaugural Committee has apologized to several thousand ticket holders turned away from President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony. The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies said in a statement Wednesday that it "deeply regrets" that some ticket holders weren't able to get to their seats, or patches of grass.
Large crowds had been prevented from passing through check points when screening equipment malfunctioned and police officers had to screen people by hand, creating massive backlogs. In another case, thousands of people were trapped in the third street tunnel where they had been told to go by police only to find there was no way out. In yet another instance, an angry crowd broke down a security barrier and barreled past police just in time to watch the Inauguration.
The committee said that, on the whole, the Inauguration was "extraordinarily successful and peaceful" but promised to examine all procedures to avoid future problems.
Sabri Ben-Achour reports...
January 22, 2009 - (Jan 22) SELECTED SHORT WORKS Free flicks at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's McEvoy Auditorium kick off tonight at 6, featuring a selection of short works from the museum's collection. From the 1975 avant-garde Running Outburst by Charlemagne Palestine to the 2004 movie mash-up Beach Boys/Geto Boys by Cory Arcangel, the evening examines the power of intensely personal and emotionally-charged cinema.
(Jan 25) ART & WAR WITH RICHARD NOTKIN The lecture Art & War takes place in the Grand Salon of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery Sunday afternoon at 3, as Richard Notkin discusses...teapots, transforming these ordinary household items into vessels filled with message and meaning.
(Jan 23-Feb 15) OLIVER! The musical Oliver! opens tomorrow at the Port Tobacco Players Theater in LaPlata, Maryland and runs through February 15th. LaPlata is an hour south of the Washington Metro area but it's worth a visit to check out the Port Tobacco Players, a theater group founded in 1947, as they stage this classic tale of a workhouse orphan turned pickpocket, with outstanding music and captivating lyrics.
January 22, 2009 - As the Obama Administration gets to work, an arts advocacy group wants to make sure that funding the arts is on the new President's agenda.
Stephanie Kaye reports...
January 22, 2009 - As President Barack Obama settles in as the 44th Chief Executive of the United States, WAMU 88.5 Senior Commentator Fred Fiske reflects on Tuesday's Inauguration.
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January 22, 2009 - House is moving quickly on the $825 billion stimulus bill, but hopes for quick action in the Senate may be fading.
Todd Zwillich reports...
January 22, 2009 - Many tickets to see the Washington Nationals will cost less this season. The team is lowering individual-sale ticket prices on 14,000 seats, and it says it won't be raising prices on any of the seats at Nationals Park.
In September, the club announced it was lowering season-ticket prices for 7,500 seats, mostly in the outfield sections. Now the Nats say they are dropping the prices of some individual-sale tickets as well. Tickets for more than 4,500 seats now cost at least $10 less than they did before. Those seats include 3000 in the ballpark's lower bowl.
The Nationals averaged about 29,000 fans per home game in 2008. That put the team 19th in attendance in the major leagues.
Rebecca Blatt reports...
January 22, 2009 - More than 20,000 Catholic teenagers and about 1,000 religious from across the U.S. have reaffirmed their commitment to oppose abortions.
They attended a Youth Concert and Mass for Life at the Verizon Center.
Kavitha Cardoza reports...
January 22, 2009 - Frustrated by what they cite as inaction of the part of O'Malley administration to address repeated instances of industrial and power plant pollution ,environmental groups have announced a lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Environment. The groups include the Environmental Integrity Project, Clean Water Action and University of Marylands Environmental Law Clinic . They filed suit asking a judge to issue Baltimore's, Wheelabrator Incinerator a Clean Air Permit,that was due over a year ago . Meymo Lyons reports...
January 22, 2009 - Police say a graduate student from China has been killed at Virginia Tech. Another student is being charged.
Twenty-two year old Xin Yang was decapitated with a kitchen knife, in a campus cafe by another graduate student who knew her.
Yang was killed last night after arriving on campus from Beijing, to begin studying accounting.
Her accused attacker, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China, knew the victim. But no motive for the slaying has been found. School records show Haiyang was listed as one of Xin's emergency contacts.
Haiyang has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail.
The murder is the first on campus since a mass killing in 2007, when a student gunman shot 32 people and then took his own life. A spokesman for Virginia Tech said their new alert system sent out messages to 30,000 people by e-mail, text messages and voice mails after the suspect was in custody.
Stephanie Kaye reports...
January 22, 2009 - Today's the 36th anniversary of Roe V Wade… the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Kavitha Cardoza spoke with Vicki Saporta…the president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation whose members include approximately 400 facilities where almost half of all American and Canadian abortions are performed.
Saporta says she's happy to have a president who is pro-choice...and she hopes President Obama will...as one of his first acts...reverse the so-called Global Gag rule …
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