Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
D.C. Council votes to update ‘Annie’s Way Designation Act’
The D.C. Council on Tuesday, March 5, voted unanimously in a first-reading vote to approve the Annie’s Way Designation Amendment Act of 2023 to honor the square block on which the longtime LGBTQ supportive Annie’s Paramount Steakhouse is currently located.
D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), who introduced the legislation last October, said in a statement that it was aimed at changing an earlier measure passed by the D.C.
Council in 2014 that designated as Annie’s Way the block on which the restaurant was located at 17th and Church St., N.W. before it moved to its current location at 17th and Corcoran Streets, N.W.
The gay bar JR.’s is now located in the building where Annie’s first opened in 1948. “This legislation would symbolically designate the public alley system within Square 0179, bounded by Corcoran Street, N.W., 16th Street, N.W., Q Street, N.W.
