2018

Rewriting the law to end the independence of the D.C. Office of Open Government this summer, the D.C. Council at least mandated that the new overseers, the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA), include one member equipped…

With the D.C. Council set to vote on a bill on Tuesday that would regulate and restrict home-sharing services for the first time, Airbnb officials say they are willing to take the issue directly to D.C. voters with a ballot measure in 2020.…

Money continues to trickle to the candidates running to be on the D.C. State Board of Education — positions that wield little power in the District but have attracted significant amounts of money. More than $225,000 has flowed into four…

On Tuesday, the DC Council is scheduled to have a final vote on a new home-share regulation bill for the city.  As currently written, the bill allows owner-occupied properties to be used as short-term rentals without time limits, while…

It is up to 17 degrees hotter than the coolest areas inside the District.

The biggest racial preferences in this country have nothing to do with college admissions or job offers. They have to do with political power. And they benefit white Americans, at the expense of black, Asian and Hispanic Americans.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Sunday rallied hundreds of supporters to back Dionne Reeder for a citywide council seat, the latest in an unprecedented attempt by the mayor to oust an incumbent lawmaker.

WASHINGTON — It was postponed in September because of the severe weather Hurricane Florence was expected to bring to the area, but the one-day H Street Festival had the area teeming with life on Saturday. Folks streamed through the H Street…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has claimed for months that she didn’t initially know about the events which eventually led to the resignation of former schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson. However, a new report appears to challenge what the Mayor…

Administrators and parents at Duke Ellington School of the Arts say a significant share of families accused of residency fraud have been cleared of wrongdoing — an assertion that appears to undermine a high-profile investigation that rocked…

A former D.C. schools chancellor and another top official ousted by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) for helping the chancellor’s daughter skirt the competitive school lottery said the mayor had been informed about the child’s school placement,…

Sherwayne Carter assumed that his senior-year schedule would be as grueling as the three before. Early morning alarms. Fifteen-hour days. Buses and trains trundling across the District to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Classes.…

WASHINGTON – The search is over for the driver of a sedan D.C. police say struck and killed a cyclist in downtown D.C. last month. Police arrested 20-year-old Phillip Peoples of Suitland, Maryland, on Friday and charged him with second…

The top three elected officials in the District would get $20,000 raises next year — their first pay increase in more than a decade — under new legislation set to be introduced. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) would see her salary go up to…

Metro is considering raising fares for big events. How many cliches fit? Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Penny wise, pound foolish. Here today, gone tomorrow. I spent five years working for the American Public Transportation Association,…

When the crackling rail-car loudspeakers come on during rush hour, they might as well say: Get your wallets out, this is a train robbery! Despite consistent declines in Metro ridership, shoddy (and dangerous) service, cost overruns and…

The Dupont Circle building that for nearly 40 years housed Restaurant Nora, the United States’ first certified organic restaurant, has been sold. Prolific D.C. restaurateur Ashok Bajaj, whose Knightsbridge Restaurant Group owns of Rasika,…