2019

Olga Cano, 38, wakes up before 6 a.m. to start her daily shuffle. She gets ready for work, then wakes up her two daughters. Her older daughter is 3, the younger one is 9 months.

There’s a praying mantis the size of an adult human in the Pollinator Garden next to the Natural History Museum.

Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups.

The D.C. Council voted to start defunding Washington’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River — a hospital the city owns and pumps millions of dollars in subsidies into annually.

Alice M. Rivlin, who died Tuesday at 88, was not some callous budget maven or austere fiscal hawk who cared only about balanced budgets and financial austerity. She wanted government to work and investment to flow back into the District in…

The Council voted Tuesday to nix funding for Mayor Bowser’s ride-free program, but it added money for a congestion-pricing study, scooter parking and a new NoMa Metro station tunnel.

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 14, 2019 CONTACT: Mekdy Alemayehu (DCOP) Bowser Administration Asks Residents to Provide Feedback on DC Values Survey Asks Residents About Accessibility, Diversity, Equity,…

The D.C. Council narrowly rejected Tuesday a proposal from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to build a new campus for an elite high school on vacant property in the booming Shaw neighborhood.

D.C. lawmakers voted Tuesday to close the District’s only public hospital within four years, ending six decades of turbulent history at the only full-service hospital in the low-income and predominantly African American neighborhoods east…

The D.C. Council threw its support behind speeding up the delivery of a new East End hospital by a year as the beleaguered United Medical Center struggles to stay afloat.

FOUNDING DIRECTOR of the Congressional Budget Office. Vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s…

Despite the D.C. Council's desire to fast-track sports betting in D.C., a citywide mobile sports gambling app won't be available until January 2020 at the earliest. A recent report from the Council's finance and revenue committee expresses…

Former Mayor Tony Williams recalls her local touch

A disproportionate number of black people in the District are arrested for minor violations that include smoking marijuana in public, driving without a license and gambling, a study from two watchdog groups found.

The District’s latest “health equity” maps shows a city divided by race and income. How well you live, or sometimes whether you live at all, can depend on what side of the line you are on.

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council gave initial approval today to the 2020 budget and related legislation with only one close vote. Amid multiple references to broken promises, it came on an unsuccessful amendment that would have backed the…