2022

In advance of a key vote at tomorrow's legislative meeting, DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has tweaked the proposed new DC Housing Authority oversight board, including the addition of two more members.

People who depend on the Housing Authority, or work with families who do, are concerned about the mayor’s effort to create a governing board of her choosing.

Meanwhile, only about a quarter of public and charter school students are participating in a citywide program that allows them to ride for free

The persistent influence of prosecutors has many observers wondering if the Department of Forensic Sciences can be fixed.

On the east side of Rock Creek Park, nestled between Beach Drive and 16th Street NW, lies a swath of recreational heaven with outdoor jungle gyms and picnic areas. There’s a hardcourt tennis stadium, which draws thousands of fans each…

Disenfranchising a city of more than 700,000 people, it turns out, requires a lot of work, if the contretemps between the D.C. municipal court system and the U.S. Senate is any indication.

A new report from the D.C. Auditor says internal oversight practices at the troubled D.C. crime lab were broken and ineffective long before the lab lost its accreditation last year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and top public safety officials on Friday offered a public show of support for Karima Holmes — her choice to lead the District’s oft-scrutinized 911 call center — defending her nomination while pushing back…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday stridently defended her nominee to head D.C.’s troubled 911 agency, Karima Holmes.

The District government is reissuing its request for proposals to redevelop the Reeves Center — what’s been a long-delayed process for one of the city’s most prominent sites — but this time without a requirement for the eventual developers…

Some DCHA commissioners will host an unofficial meeting with Empower DC ahead of a D.C. Council vote on a bill that would reconfigure the board.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser gathered the top chiefs from the city’s public safety agencies to talk about plans to make holiday shoppers feel safer in commercial districts.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences has failed to operate as an independent part of the justice system, a report from the Office of the D.C. Auditor has found.

A reader, Leroy Swain, took me to task for stating in last week’s column on juvenile crime that I didn’t want to start a “blaming and shaming game about unstable families in our community.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a new DCHA board that would eliminate critics.

On a quiet, tree-lined street near D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, one house looks just like all the others. Plants and garden figurines cover the front yard, with concrete steps that lead up to the front door. On a sunny day, there’s…

Legislators are slated to decide next week whether to accept Mayor Muriel Bowser's plans for reforms to the governance of the DC Housing Authority amid loud objections from many advocates for residents of the city's public housing.