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The head of the District’s Latino-affairs office shared photos of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser at a Latino parade that deleted images of protesters who showed up to slam the mayor’s immigration policies. Hardly a month goes by without Bowser (D)…

Former Mayor and current Ward 7 Councilmember Vincent Gray was injured Saturday night when he says a bouncer at a local nightclub pushed him after a dispute over Gray’s identification. Police were called and aides to Gray say he suffered…

IT SEEMS it is time for another reminder of what the District of Columbia public school system was like before mayoral control. School didn’t start on time each fall because buildings weren’t ready. Textbooks stayed stacked in warehouses…

A number of taxes are increasing in D.C. on Monday, the first day of the 2019 fiscal year. The general sales tax is increasing by a quarter of a percentage point to 6 percent, and the tax charged on beer, malt liquor and wine sold at stores…

As D.C. lawmakers appear poised to overturn Initiative 77, some Council members are making a last-ditch effort to strike a compromise. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) says she’s working with Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) on a bill that…

One last time the faithful rose, mounting the steps and flocking into the pews of Lincoln Congregational Temple United Church of Christ, one of Washington’s most historically significant African American churches. They broke bread one last…

Metro’s ridership keeps falling, and the system’s leaders are at a loss for how to fix it. Once comfortably the nation’s second-busiest subway, Metro has lost 125,000 average daily trips over the past decade, plunging it into a quarterly…

Yolanda Corbett knows she would have to remain at home with her youngest child if he was not enrolled in preschool. She would lose her job as an administrative assistant at a nonprofit and would have to scramble in the evenings to find…

A D.C. Superior Court judge dealt what could be a mortal blow to a lawsuit against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s advisory panel on the search for a new school chancellor. On Friday, D.C. Superior Court Judge Anthony C. Epstein declined to award a…

There’s a kind of sport in identifying the neighborhood name for any particular spot in Washington — a sport played by realtors, developers, and planning geeks. Sadly (or happily), it’s all for naught; there are no official neighborhoods in…

Cyhneil Smith was tempted to stay home. She was supposed to attend a class at a vocational school that morning, but it was raining, and she didn’t have a babysitter. Her son’s father couldn’t take him because he had a job interview. Her…

FOR MANY people who want to visit Washington, particularly families attracted by the free museums and other highlights of the nation’s capital, the cost of a hotel room can be off-putting. Some stay away or limit their visit; others look…

She was a distant cousin to all of us, but she was old, perhaps the oldest of her kind in America, and on Friday, the National Zoo’s white-cheeked gibbon was euthanized. Named Muneca, she was born in Cambodia, came to the zoo in 1999, and…

The skies were clear and blue in the winter sunlight in early December 2016, as Mayor Muriel Bowser plunged a gleaming shovel into a pile of sand and declared the ground broken at McMillan Sand Filtration Facility. It was a perfect day for…

Councilmember Elissa Silverman was one of the last three councilmembers standing during the 16-hour hearing on the bill repealing Initiative 77, and now we know why. She's been working on replacement legislation that offers a compromise…

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) said Friday that he has secured enough votes and is moving ahead to overturn a voter-approved minimum wage increase for servers, bartenders and other tipped workers in the nation’s capital.

Trillion-dollar technology giant Apple is establishing an office presence across the street from the new flagship D.C. store it is preparing to open in the historic Carnegie Library. Apple signed a lease for a full floor, roughly 23K SF, at…

The inaugural WeDC Fest didn't draw the crowds that organizers expected, but it may be a good down payment for a festival that could eventually evolve into an event reminiscent of Austin's megapopular South by Southwest.

The District of Columbia announced Friday that it is sponsoring a competition focused on the development of civic-minded computer applications that run on the next generation of broadband and wireless technology. The Gigabit DC Challenge,…

A strange thing happened this summer. Initiative 77, which, in its most simplistic characterization, increased the minimum wage for tipped workers, was approved in a primary election in June. At first glance and in such a progressive city,…