Effort to raise D.C. tipped minimum wage certified for November ballot wapo.st/38yzWJm

Woohoo! There I am on Netflix! This brief segment was filmed on 7/6/20 outside DC Board of Elections. I am unloading DecrimNatureDC's 35,000+ #Initiative81 petitions. Be sure to watch "How to Change Your Mind: Episode 4- Mescaline" (around 38 min) #Thx Michael Pollan netflix.com/title/80229847

Initiative 82 has passed, eliminating D.C.'s tipped minimum wage. Our story Michael Brice-Saddler Julie Z. Weil Hayden Godfrey Omari Daniels washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…

Biden cracks 'red wave' joke at turkey pardon as Thanksgiving gets pricier trib.al/dhlAo5J

“The turkeys that President Biden will pardon have names. So do the thousands of cannabis prisoners stuck in both federal and state jails,” said Nikolas Schiller, a prominent marijuana activist who protested outside the White House last month..." nypost.com/2022/11/21/bid…

When elected officials wouldn’t deliver, tipped workers & their allies went to voters. Matthew Hanson talks w/ Nikolas Schiller about the Initiative 82 campaign to end the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers in DC Published w/ Convergence Magazine forgeorganizing.org/article/how-ti…

When elected officials wouldn’t deliver, tipped workers and their progressive allies in DC went to the voters. Read the full story from Nikolas Schiller + Matthew Hanson: convergencemag.com/articles/midte…

More than 87,000 mail ballots sent to D.C. voters ahead of Nov. 8 were returned as undeliverable — 17% of all ballots mailed out. Critics say it's because of longstanding problems with the city's voter registry: dcist.com/story/22/12/12…

The DC Council unanimously approved emergency legislation that postpones the implementation of the tipped minimum wage ballot, Initiative 82, by a few months. bit.ly/3GKXgkp

“Tipped Workers Continue to Lament Delay in Raise” by Sam Plo Kwia Collins, Jr. / Washington Informer washingtoninformer.com/tipped-workers…

Initiative 82 takes effective today. DC employers have to raise the wages of their tipped workers, from $5.35 to $6 per hour. Next base pay bump is in July. dcist.com/story/23/01/17…

Read about the Initiative 82 campaign to end the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers in DC! Mat Hanson talks w/ Nikolas Schiller forgeorganizing.org/article/how-ti…

A proposed ballot initiative would bring ranked choice voting to the District, as well as partially open primaries. bit.ly/41KZt7X

Signature collectors hit D.C. streets to garner support for an initiative to implement ranked-choice voting and allow independents to cast ballots in primaries. wapo.st/3WMWDR7

Supporters of major changes to D.C. elections delivered more than 40,000 signatures to the Board of Elections on Monday for a ballot initiative to bring ranked-choice voting to D.C. elections and to allow registered independents to vote in primaries. wapo.st/3XOIaVo

D.C. voters overwhelmingly passed electoral reform measure Initiative 83. Now, it’s up to the D.C. Council to fund and implement it. Will they follow through? buff.ly/4f666Jz

An initiative that would open the city’s all-important primary elections to independent voters and adopt ranked-choice voting was on track to pass decisively Tuesday night, according to projections from the Associated Press. wapo.st/3NUmVLo

Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon rebuffed efforts to adopt ranked-choice voting in their future elections, dealing a setback to a group of wealthy donors who wanted to dramatically change how Americans choose their elected officials. wapo.st/4ensYmy

D.C. Democrats tarnish themselves by resisting ranked-choice voting, the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/4kBbGWs