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Antoine Pinkney hoped but didn’t know if his family’s application for an apartment would be approved when he stood near his 13-year-old granddaughter in the community playroom of the building where they hoped to move. In the room was a new…

The checks are flowing in from across the country: $200 from a charter school principal in New York, $100 from a Silicon Valley employee, another $100 from a school leadership consultant in North Carolina. The money, more than $150,000 and…

On a recent afternoon, almost a year after launching her long-shot campaign for the D.C. Council, Dionne Reeder found herself in a downtown restaurant facing a flurry of questions from the District’s most powerful Democrat. Mayor Muriel E.…

It’s been nearly a year since officers from the U.S. Marshals Service caused heated debate by dumping sensitive financial documents on a Capitol Hill sidewalk while carrying out an eviction order against a tax services company. Local…

As the race for a crucial D.C. Council seat enters its home stretch, Dionne Reeder, a third-generation Washingtonian and entrepreneur who branded herself as a collaborator and bridge builder, can now count a bevy of high-profile Black…

D.C. OFFICIALS have made fighting residency fraud in the city’s public schools a priority. That’s understandable. Nonresidents shouldn’t be able to game a system paid for by D.C. taxpayers. But is the city’s zeal to show it is cracking down…

The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has been increasingly contentious amid allegations of sexual assault. And members of the Senate aren't the only ones grappling with their feelings about the judge.

Talk to Dionne Reeder’s supporters, and they will insist that Elissa Silverman is the most divisive politician in the city. … But the Reeder camp’s focus on Silverman’s divisiveness may be a way to deflect from the controversial figures…

Employees at Little Jewels Child Development Center in Deanwood had just put the kids down for a nap on Wednesday afternoon when someone came to the door to deliver an urgent letter. The owner of Little Jewels, Ruth Thompson Cole, answered…

Maryland and D.C. residents soon will be encouraged to do something they shouldn’t: vote early in this year’s general election. Virginians will not be urged to do so because Virginia, wisely, does not allow early voting. Neither does…

The Oct. 4 Metro article “Report lays out answers to Metro’s problems” referenced a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority planning staff analysis that concluded that service reductions are a principal cause of the decline, and…

TaQuan Pinkney was a determined, positive young man who was getting ready to start college. Though he did everything he could to steer clear of violence, he could not escape the reality of his Ward 8 neighborhood and circumstances far out…

The Metro Office of Inspector General (OIG) is gearing up for more investigations of the long-troubled transit agency as it seeks more independence from Metro officials, who are launching a $500 million, multiyear repair project.

The Navy Yard development pipeline continues to grow. Yesterday, Greysteel announced that DBT Development had acquired financing to move forward on a condo project at 37 L Street SE (map). As designed by Bonstra | Haresign, the 11-story…

A couple of weeks ago, the prominent congregation of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament parish stood united in its shared anger at what its priest, the Rev. Bill Foley, called “silence and inaction" on the topic of sexual abuse within…

It’s six months after moving day, and Tyreem Fosque’s small apartment in Northeast Washington is only now starting to feel complete. “This is my humble studio,” Fosque says during a quick tour over the summer, at the three-month mark.…

There hasn’t been a Republican on the DC Council for almost a decade, and Michael Bekesha wants to change that. Running his long-shot campaign from a rented desk at a WeWork near his home in Navy Yard, the attorney is trying to unseat…

Truancy is on the rise in both traditional public schools and charter schools in D.C., which has city officials taking a closer look at transportation. Some educators say that transportation issues are the number one reason kids miss…

WASHINGTON — Sara Polon, who started fresh soup company Soupergirl with her mother Marilyn in 2008, will appear on ABC’s “Shark Tank” on October 21. Polon, a former stand-up comedian, has grown the business to 35 employees and two retail…

Five members of the D.C. Council sent a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday afternoon, urging her to restore funding cut from 10 community-based organizations (or CBOs) that provide housing counseling and other critical services to…