by Tamar Zaidenweber On Thursday November 12, DC City Council member David Catania, Chair of the Committee on Health, hosted a roundtable hearing on the implementation of Healthy DC. The City Council passed the Healthy DC legislation in 2008, which created an extensive expansion of the Medicaid and DC Alliance programs that will be available […]
D.C. Gay Marriage on a Crash Course with Congress?
by Laura Hatalsky Earlier this week, the DC City Council held its first of a series of hearings on gay marriage in the District. As expected, the event featured fireworks and protestors aplenty. But underlying the proceedings was a sense of inevitability that cannot be denied.