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A new leader took over the DC Office of Human Rights last month amid calls to increase the agency’s funding and reduce its long-standing backlog — an issue the office had begun to address. Michelle Garcia started as interim director on…

The DC State Board of Education is launching a three-year effort to change how public schools teach social studies, rewriting state academic standards to improve civics learning and promote more culturally relevant instruction for students…

DC is banning plastic straws, and Jack Evans’ social standing is taking a hit. “Many of my friends won’t talk to me anymore,” the Ward 2 DC Council member said with a wry smile during a Committee on Transportation and the Environment…

In December of 2016, as Democrats across the country were still reeling from President Donald Trump’s election the month before, progressives in the District of Columbia got some welcome news. The DC Council passed legislation guaranteeing…

Anita Bonds is getting it from all sides. Ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections, the at-large DC Council member and District-politics stalwart is facing criticism from two challengers, Marcus Goodwin and Jeremiah Lowery,…

At-large DC Council member Anita Bonds certainly has her critics as she runs for re-election this year. She’s drawn two young and energetic primary challengers, real estate associate Marcus Goodwin and progressive activist Jeremiah Lowery.…

Marcus Goodwin still talks about Arthur's. The Columbia Heights convenience store was a longtime community institution around the corner from his mother’s house, and Goodwin said it used to be “our local source for any convenience,”…

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, he was an early champion of affordable housing programs known as community land trusts. Now a DC Council candidate wants to emulate Sanders’ program in the nation’s capital.…

As he campaigns for re-election this summer, Phil Mendelson is telling the story of the Anacostia properties. The DC Council chairman had a protracted dispute last year with Mayor Muriel Bowser, a fellow Democrat, over the fate of four…

Ed Lazere still isn’t satisfied. The longtime executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute knows the DC Council increased support for affordable housing this year — even investing $15.6 million more than Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed…