The D.C. city council is just as crazy as I thought they were when they decided to approve a $25,000 pay raise for D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey's but kicked his benefit package to the curb. Directly responsible for this injustice is none other than Ward 3's renegade council member Kathy Patterson (D), who used her clout as chair of the Judiciary committee to block a vote on the matter.
NEW YORK (NNPA)-When Michelle Robinson left Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant more than a decade ago to attend the prestigious Brown University, she vowed that she would never return. "At the time, the neighborhood that I grew up in was very rough," Robinson, 33, remembers.