The Capitals and Wizards will stay put in their Chinatown building through 2050 under a tentative deal with the District that extends the teams’ leases, according to multiple reports Wednesday. News of the deal came just hours after the city of Alexandria officially pulled the plug on negotiations for a ritzy new proposal basketball and […]
WASHINGTON — The attorney general for the District of Columbia contends that the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals are obligated to play their games in the downtown arena through 2047, the city’s latest salvo to keep the teams from leaving. In a letter Brian Schwalb wrote this week to Monumental Sports and Entertainment […]
A bill authorizing the construction of a new arena to bring the Washington Wizards and Capitals to Virginia passed through the state’s House of Delegates on Tuesday. The proposal, which would establish a stadium authority to issue public bonds, passed 59-40. The bill will now cross over to the Virginia Senate. The legislation has taken a […]
A deal to bring the Washington Wizards and Capitals to Virginia is dead, according to Democrat state Sen. L. Louise Lucas. Two bills to establish a stadium authority in Virginia are sitting in the state’s legislature: one in the House of Delegates and one in the Senate. The House’s version passed through committee on Friday. […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Legislation underpinning a plan to relocate the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals across the Potomac River to northern Virginia easily cleared an early hurdle in the state legislature Friday. Lawmakers on the Virginia House Appropriations Committee voted 17-3 to advance the measure, a top priority of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, […]
DENVER — State legislatures wield little, if any, influence over U.S. foreign policy, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators converging on state capitols. Crowds of anti-Israel activists are spilling from the streets and universities into the chambers and rotundas, greeting lawmakers at the start of the 2024 legislative sessions with noisy […]
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