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If one theme binds the 21 Washingtonians in City Paper’s 2018 People Issue, it’s that each of them is sure about their purpose in life. Some of them discovered what their life’s work would be as children. Others made an enduring…

WASHINGTON (Circa) — Grace Maria says she was headed back into her office in Washington, D.C. when she noticed a homeless man involved in a confrontation with police.

From jazz to go-go, D.C. has a rich musical history. But it’s never been quantified. For the first time, the city is preparing to launch a music census in order learn more about the role musicians play in the local economy.

At age 60, Deborah Johnson thought her child-rearing days were behind her. But when hardship struck her family, she found herself raising her grandsons in a cramped, two-bedroom apartment in southeast D.C.

Enrollment increased 2 percent this school year in the District’s traditional public school system, outpacing growth in the robust charter school sector, which educates nearly half of the city’s public school students.

Ward 3 community activist and transgender rights advocate Monika Nemeth won election on Tuesday to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in district 3F06, becoming the first known transgender person to be elected to an ANC seat.

The Anacostia River was supposed to get a lot cleaner this past summer, after DC Water completed a major new sewer tunnel. But water testing shows bacteria counts were, in some cases, higher in the summer of 2018 compared to 2017.

A product of D.C. Public Schools and Howard University, D.C. jazz musician Davey Yarborough promised his Howard mentor upon graduation that he would “pay it forward” — and he’s been doing that for the past 30 years as a jazz program…

While courtyards are nothing new for multi-family developments, and have even been employed in pop-back rowhouse-conversion projects, a rowhouse conversion in DC is including a first of sorts for this type of development: a small private…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s effort to tip the scales in the District’s sole competitive council race was an unprecedented gamble in a city whose mayors have avoided campaigning against other incumbents — and it failed.

Residents of the nation’s capital get no vote in Congress, but the Democratic takeover of the House may come with a consolation prize: recreational marijuana shops.

Michael Bekesha ran his campaign against Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen as an “urban Republican”—a fiscal conservative who shares his city’s core values, and eschews any association with President Donald Trump.

Mayor Muriel Bowser convincingly won reelection Tuesday. But rather than basking in her big win, Bowser managed to step on her own parade. It was a misstep that will affect her already shaky relationship with the D.C. Council.

In what turned out to be an expensive D.C. State Board of Education race, educators and those seeking to shake up the system won by double-digit percentages.

Past 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, a strange moment arrived for obsessive D.C. election-watchers: The D.C. Board of Elections results page suddenly stopped its live results tally, with only 142 of 143 precincts reporting. One…

Yesterday’s election saw some local victories for the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA-endorsed candidates in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Julia Salazar, made history as two of the youngest people to be elected to Congress…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) easily won reelection yesterday but ended up diminished citywide. Facing token opposition, Bowser cruised to victory, capturing 76 percent of the votes for mayor. But she fell behind other winners in citywide…

WASHINGTON — When Marion Barry began to run for mayor of D.C. in 1978, he could point to his record on the D.C. Board of Education and the D.C. Council, where he had been chairman of the Finance and Revenue Committee and had proposed more…

The owners of a development site by the Benning Road Metro station in Northeast D.C. plan to seek buyers for their property, formerly home to a KFC restaurant.

Mayor Muriel Bower became D.C.’s first reelected mayor since 2002 and the first woman to ever earn a second term as the city executive. And yet she still lost on Election Day.