2018

A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.

D.C. Councilman Charles Allen’s office has gathered thousands of signatures on a petition opposing the construction of a new NFL stadium at the RFK Stadium campus.

The Dec. 14 editorial “RFK Stadium is a wasted asset” was not wrong about the need to rethink the use of the National Park Service land that is home to the old RFK Stadium. However, the editorial’s support of a backdoor effort by the…

The D.C. Council is nearing final approval on new legislation designed to break the logjam of food trucks squatting on some of the District’s most prized parking meter spaces.

A proposed tax break to support the consolidation of an international development company's regional offices at The Yards will be tested Tuesday as a D.C. Council member will move to kill it.

The children at Georgetown University Hospital received a special treat this week. Instead of being stuck with needles or undergoing tests, these kids got to enjoy some quality time with their heroes on the ice.

The London restaurant group behind the Zuma chain and more 40 other restaurants around the world is making its way into Greater Washington with two new Japanese concepts, Shōtō and Akēdo, planned for downtown D.C.

The development would transform a 1.5-acre site into residences, hotel rooms, offices, and retail

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen and more than 2,400 others are saying “Hail No” to the idea of a new football stadium at the RFK campus.

D.C. residents talk about the city’s shifting demographics all the time. Since 2006, the District has become wealthier, whiter and younger. And residents see the changes all around them, particularly in new housing developments and rising…

Mayoral appointments are not generally the subject of a major kerfuffle at the D.C. Council. The mayor picks someone to do a job and, most of the time, her nominee sails through to a final vote and approval.

The DC Council should reconsider the current plan for the East End hospital as it does not include provisions for Howard University’s doctors, residents and medical and other health professions’ students to provide services and training.

An office building one block from the White House that was built during the Johnson administration has been tapped for a major renovation.

An outgoing US House representative wants to repeal flight perimeter restrictions at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport, making a statement that local residents want the decades-old restriction lifted.

Racially and economically diverse schools are thought to offer various mechanisms — more financial resources or positive impacts from peer exposure, for example — that can improve outcomes for students of all backgrounds, particularly…

While the DC Council certainly introduced several commendable bills which weren't passed in 2018, one that UrbanTurf quite liked seemed to recede into the background with a whimper.  In January, Councilmember Charles Allen introduced the Go…

In the early 1960s, long before bluegrass was streamed into the living rooms of genteel NPR listeners or championed by retro-craving hipsters, the place to hear the best hillbilly music around was the District of Columbia, and the people to…