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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The closely held details of Chelsea Clinton's wedding have begun to leak out, and the first major morsel may well be the venue. She will marry investment banker Marc Mezvinksy, 31, at Astor Courts, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece overlooking the Hudson River designed in 1902 by famed architect Stanford White for American oligarch John Jacob Astor IV. From the outside, it evokes Louis XIV's Grand Trianon at Versailles. And inside? It's straight out of an Edith Wharton novel. Speculation about everything from Chelsea's wedding gown (Vera Wang? Oscar de la Renta?) to the officiant (a Protestant ...
Democrats have included a provision in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill currently winding its way through Congress that would end the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships program. The program provides $7,500 vouchers to some 1,700 low-income families in the nation's capital that can be used to help pay the cost of tuition at private schools. The program allows thousands of D.C. kids the chance to escape the District's crowded, unsafe, and underperforming school system for a quality education. If the bill passes in its current form, those vouchers will dry up, leaving many of the recipients with ...
President-Elect Barack Obama is moving his family to Washington, DC, this weekend, immediately after they return from their Hawaiian vacation. The goal is to get his daughters, Malia and Sasha, into town in order to start the second semester on time at their new school, Sidwell Friends (a tony Quaker school previously profiled by two deadbeat alums).Obama's first hope was to stay in Blair House, the official White House guest residence, but that idea got nixed. Apparently, it was already booked until January 15th (presumably by George Bush's old frat buddies, in town for one last hurrah).So, ...
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