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DC is growing, and as this spring’s passionate debate about the DC Comprehensive Plan revealed, managing this growth is one of the most important and contentious city planning discussions of our time. However, decisions about historic…

Outrage. Washington, especially Washington in the age of Trump, is rarely short on outrage. And while the entire region has been in various degrees of apoplexy all summer over lying white guys in suits, three little girls couldn’t buy ice…

It was the 1960s, and the Washington Evening Star’s nightlife columnist John Segraves happened to be working at the precise instant that the typical newspaper music critic was morphing from someone like him — short hair, white shirt, jacket…

The 9-year-old just had to see her locker, one she had already envisioned decorating with wallpaper and glittery things, before she was ready to say goodbye to her father. The 12-year-old was a bit more hesitant.

On a hot, hazy Saturday afternoon, members of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association gathered for their monthly meeting outdoors, in the shade of a large oak tree, across from the place many of them used to call home. Their community…

FROM THE uproar over graduation practices to the scandal over the improper high school placement of the schools chancellor’s daughter, there was plenty of bad news about the District’s public school system last school year. So it was…

Regarding the Aug. 17 Metro article “D.C. Water to overhaul alerts after July missteps”: Can we pause to recognize and applaud municipal accountability and leadership at work?

As giddy students and nervous parents begin the new school year in D.C. on Monday, it’s the perfect time to deliver report cards on Mayor Muriel Bowser, the elected official in charge of our public schools.

D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman on Monday sought to knock a challenger off the November ballot, alleging that the opponent’s nominating petitions include nearly 4,000 invalid signatures. S. Kathryn Allen, the challenger who is backed…

Ruth Ann was finally back in his arms. “May 7, 2017,” he said. “That was the last time I held her.” In the year and three months he’d been apart from Ruth Ann, his hands went a little janky. They’d been together for 24 years, so holding her…

Fully two-thirds of all D.C. advisory neighborhood commission (ANC) seats citywide will again have either no candidate running for election or only one uncontested candidate name will appear on the ballot in the November general election.

AS THINGS stand now, the price of paying pensions and health benefits to Metro retirees into the future is about $5.8 billion. That’s a big bill, and it looks only more daunting when you consider that Metro has barely half that amount. The…

Chanelle Mattocks asked what any mother would in her situation: “Who do we hold responsible?” Before her family moved into a subsidized home in Washington that had been approved by city inspectors, she had a typical 3-year-old. Then, she…

The lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of emotionally disturbed children is more of a scandal to those of us old enough to remember the class-action lawsuit Bobby D. v. Barry, filed in 1977 on behalf of the same population of…

I agree with the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw plans to move the FBI headquarters, located on the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW, to proposed sites in Maryland or Virginia. The proposal to relocate our nation’s domestic…

No one should lose the right to drive because he or she can’t afford a fine. No one should have to risk incarceration because he or she needs to drive to work, pick up kids or rush a family member to the hospital.

The first tell was the name, address and signature of the incumbent’s legislative director on the ballot petition of a competitor in the November election for At-Large D.C. Council. One line below, was the signature of a longtime Democratic…

In the wee hours of Friday, July 13th (hmmm …) a huge swathe of the city north of K Street west of 7th and New York Avenue all the way east to the District line suddenly had water flowing through the mains that was potentially contaminated,…

IT WAS a gratifying reaffirmation of American values when thousands of protesters turned out Sunday to denounce the few dozen white-nationalist bigots who rallied across from the White House on the anniversary of last year’s mayhem in …

A challenger backed by the city’s business community has outraised D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) in the latest campaign finance period, new filings show. S. Kathryn Allen, an insurance agent and former banking…