THE DISTRICT’S charter school sector has been largely untouched as charter school opponents across the country have waged an increasingly relentless campaign against them. That is mainly due to the enormous popularity of the schools that!-->…
The April 7 editorial “The District’s budget warning” rightfully noted that D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey S. DeWitt certified the fiscal 2020 budget and four-year financial plan as balanced. Then it warned the D.C. Council about the!-->…
Joe Weedon plans to prolong the decision as long as he can. He wants to attend just one more school open house. Talk to just a few more parents and teachers. Wrestle with the choice while he coaches just one more youth baseball game.
Congress would approve 10 more years of critical federal funding for Metro, but only if the transit agency agreed to not buy its next generation of rail cars from China, legislation being proposed by the region’s senators stipulates.
The District has a long history of fighting to secure its fundamental rights. With the watershed passage in the House of legislation endorsing D.C. voting rights and self-government, the momentum for D.C. autonomy has never been greater.!-->…
Years of neglect have led to a maintenance crisis in D.C.’s public housing. And as Congress and the Trump administration battle over large proposed cuts to the federal budget for affordable housing, the D.C. Housing Authority has asked!-->…
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April 12, 2019
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Mayor Bowser Announces 2019 DC Emancipation Day Festivities
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the celebration of the!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Mark Ein is taking his tennis franchise to the roof of Union Market, announcing a deal for a new pop-up stadium roughly a week after announcing he would take over management of the Citi Open tournament.
Higher caseloads for judges, slower decisions for the public. Those are the consequences of an “unprecedented” number of judicial vacancies in D.C. Superior Court and the Court of Appeals, according to the top judges on both courts.
Many of the healthcare services people receive have shifted away from hospital campuses into community-based facilities, often adapting vacant retail spaces into primary care and urgent care centers.