Opinion

The prisoners’ deaths last month have raised questions for relatives and revived discussions about the city’s practice of sending residents to prisons across the country

I don’t pretend to fully understand God’s will. But according to the city’s deputy medical examiner, 23-month-old Legend King Wheeler died from a gunshot wound to the head on the day before Thanksgiving 2021.

The calendar says a new school year is about to begin. But looking at the data, it is clear that the challenges our students, schools and families have faced over the past two years remain the same.

Because of a lack of support, the children won’t be starting school on time, and some will struggle to attend at all, advocates say

The District government is working to make an accessory apartment (or accessory dwelling unit or ADU) a bit easier to build. The legalization of accessory apartments as part of the 2016 zoning regulations update was a landmark change, but…

A recent slowdown in the stream of buses bearing migrant asylum seekers to D.C. from the southwest border has paused talk about what Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has called a “humanitarian crisis.” Don’t be misled. It is likely that many…

The D.C. author started writing the book ‘I Have a Choice’ before people across the country lost their right to choose

Ten years ago, understanding that the existing FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue NW was rapidly deteriorating and its size and configuration could no longer serve the evolving needs of the agency, advocates for the demolition of the…

Well, hello again, Local Opinions. Yep, it’s me again. You know, that lady who writes near the anniversary of being hit by a car? In the crosswalk with the walk light? At the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Good Hope Road…

It was a sunny day last week when it finally happened, the thing Jay had left his small, conservative hometown in the South to avoid — hate.

Cynthia Killough describes a frustrating search for answers from the U.S. Postal Service

D.C. is undeniably a world-class city. It offers great universities, museums, performing arts, notable architecture and monuments, beautiful parks and rivers, great restaurants, unique opportunities for civic engagement, and myriad…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is catching it from all directions over a problem she had no hand in creating, and for which she, as D.C.’s chief executive, lacks both the responsibility and capacity to solve.

Amid all the devastating impacts of the pandemic, there have been some rare, unexpected bright spots: The flexibility afforded by telework; the convenience of ordering groceries online; the advantages of telehealth medical visits. To that…

A person could live in Washington and never know about the National Deaf Life Museum. But visitors come from across the world.

Ahead of a D.C. Council hearing in January 2020, the Bowser administration told lawmakers that one of the city government’s top priorities for the coming year would be reducing gun violence and making the District a model city for police…

In 2021, D.C. implemented the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2019 (SAVRAA), which gives 13- to 17-year-old victims of sexual assault in D.C. the right to an advocate — a trained professional from a community-based…

Arlene Tutt never really got her brother’s job until she tried to do it, days after he died.

The report’s findings that vehicles are speeding through school zones would be concerning, if so many people weren’t already concerned

Fairly or not, the mayorship of New York is often called the biggest dead-end job in American politics because so many occupants of that office have floundered. Lately, managing D.C.’s transit system is starting to get the same rap — for…