Petula Dvorak in The Post: Immigrants looking for new lives are not a National Guard emergency
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Washington Post Editorial Board: Mayor Bowser needs to take action on migrant buses coming to D.C.
Since April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, have bused more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants to the nation’s capital to score political points against the Biden administration’s immigration…
Courtland Milloy in The Post: How to stop gun violence? End poverty and racism.
Erica Ahdoot, executive director of Horton’s Kids, a D.C. nonprofit that helps kids graduate from high school and prepare for life, recently co-authored an opinion piece for The Washington Post about curbing gun violence. Reader response…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Are $100 sneakers a way to cut truancy? These folks think so.
“It’s a whole different generation,” Barbara Mickles said out loud, to no one in particular, shaking her head and adding a grandmotherly “mmm-hmmm” to underscore the absurdity of $100 sneakers on ever-growing kid feet.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Two words that capture D.C.’s unsafe streets: ‘Updated again’
Two memorials were being planned for D.C. cyclists. Then a third was killed.
Colbert King in The Post: The national and local intersect for D.C. in November
D.C. voters have good reason to concentrate their minds on November. Not only will they elect a mayor, a D.C. Council chair, two at-large and four ward council members in the Nov. 8 general election, but the congressional midterms are also…
Erica Ahdoot, Shandell Richards and Brad Sickels in The Post: To stop gun violence, we need to fight systemic injustice
Gun violence in this country is constant and devastating. In addition to the high-profile national tragedies, we have seen a troubling increase in instances of local, often unreported, community violence many people live with every day.
Paul Basken in The Post: The National Park Service’s absurd reason to reopen Beach Drive to cars
It should come as little surprise that the federal government intends to end the recreational use of upper Beach Drive.
Washington Post Editorial Board: This D.C. Council decision makes city streets unsafe
Six months into 2022, there have been 1,528 traffic crashes involving injuries in D.C. Nineteen people have been killed. The deaths follow a year in which the city saw the most traffic fatalities since 2007, including the death of a…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: The migrant buses sent to D.C. are a cruel, political stunt
It’s happening just about every night now, in sight of the U.S. Capitol dome.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Still looking for Relisha
It’s not Relisha Rudd’s birthday. And it isn’t the anniversary of the day she was last seen.
Tim Busch in The Post: John Garvey improved Catholic University — and Washington
D.C. owes John Garvey a deep debt of gratitude. He has stood on principle, strengthened the city and shaped our nation and world to a profound extent. Garvey retired as president of the Catholic University of America on June 30.
Darius Baxter in The Post: Build bridges to address the crisis of violence
Hundreds of millions of Americans are tired of not feeling safe in their homes, schools, places of worship and grocery stores.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: A food bank opened on a swank block. It’s about to be shut down.
Life is calmer on this side of town for Stanley Tucker and his 10-year-old grandson.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Hungry and homeless: Life for a migrant family in the nation’s capital
A couple and their three children, ages 4, 6 and 11, have been living out of a van
Colbert King in The Post: The voters speak in D.C., but it’s not quite clear what they said
Questions raised in this column on the eve of the June 21 D.C. Democratic primary — “Is Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) in trouble?” and “Is D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) a political kingmaker?” — were answered by 128,000 voters,…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: A dad climbed a bridge to protest the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling
Guido Reichstadter, a father of two, stood on the Frederick Douglass Bridge in D.C. to call on people to do more than passively support abortion rights
Tim Linaberry in The Post: End the tipped wage to help back-of-house staff
The D.C. hospitality industry is gearing up for another battle over eliminating the tipped wage. The concept of a tipped wage, now $5.05 in D.C., comes from the archaic 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, which allows employers to pay tipped…
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C.’s promising approach to violence prevention has room for improvement
Six years ago, the D.C. Council enacted the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (Near) Act establishing a comprehensive blueprint for a public health approach to preventing violent crime in D.C. With the District, like many other…
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. voters sent mixed messages in the Democratic primary
Voters sent mixed messages in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in D.C. Giving the nod to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in her bid for a third term, they signaled they wanted to stick with the stable, pragmatic leadership that has produced results for…