2019

Evidence of discrimination in enforcement drove D.C.’s City Council to decriminalize transit fare evasion. But cities should consider abolishing fares entirely.

WASHINGTON — D.C. and federal authorities are cracking down on armed felons in an attempt to bring down the District’s rising homicide rate.

D.C. lawmakers are proposing a new center to study gun violence, a move that would place the District in the vanguard of local governments seeking to fund research that gun-safety advocates say has been neglected by federal officials.

The center will début at a centrally located church on Feb. 12

At it stands, Democratic voters in Washington, D.C., will be last in the nation to weigh in on who should challenge Donald Trump in 2020’s presidential contest. But some local politicos want to change that.

D.C. police and federal agents will work closely together this year in a crackdown on convicted felons illegally carrying guns in the city, a law enforcement strategy prompted by a steep increase in homicides in 2018, officials said…

Dorothy Butler Gilliam has lived to be a sage octogenarian. She has also lived a remarkable life: daughter of the segregated South, front-line chronicler of the dismantling of Jim Crow and ascension of the civil rights movement and most of…

One of my fondest recollections as a native Washingtonian was traipsing the streets of Georgetown in the mid-1980s, as the best buddy of two very distinct friends.

On a weekday evening in December, families crowded at the door of the Quality Inn ballroom, waiting to sign in their children. Scattered across the floral-print carpet, kids were playing. Some played with other kids, some with toys, and…

Volunteers with the 2019 Point-In-Time (PIT) count to determine the size and character of the city’s homeless population met Johnny Queen, a 60-year-old street minister, sleeping in the portico of St John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette…

Logan Circle is one of the more in-demand and high-priced neighborhoods in the District. But when did the neighborhood surrounding Logan Circle itself become the Logan Circle neighborhood? UrbanTurf decided to find out. 

It’s a homeowner or renter’s nightmare. Something catches your eye in the corner of your living room. Upon closer look you see it’s a pattern of mold blooming at the base of the wall. You have to get rid of it immediately.

After an oversight hearing earlier this month where more or less nothing was learned, the D.C. Council on Wednesday had another meeting trying to ascertain how and why developers of a new museum destroyed so much historically protected…

A week ago, DC's Office of the Chief Financial Officer released its latest economic and revenue trends report that included a number of statistics about the DC economy in 2018. UrbanTurf reviewed that report as well as several other…

As Mayor Muriel Bowser walked around the permit center at the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) on Tuesday afternoon, one thing seemed to be on her mind: how much of what people were waiting in line for could simply…

Facing a 40 percent homicide spike in the District last year and a violent 2019 so far, city officials are identifying a chokepoint for policy change: previously convicted felons who continue to possess guns.

Since last week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has been promoting a petition for Metro to revive late-night rail service, which the transit agency reduced in 2016 so that work crews could access tracks for longer stretches of…