Opinion

“SUCH A waste.” That remark was part of the running commentary on a video documenting the deteriorated building conditions at a D.C. public high school that closed seven years ago. It was a reference to the school’s peeling paint, the…

District transportation safety officials may be underestimating by half the city’s serious transportation-related injuries, according to two D.C. Council-appointed bicycle and pedestrian advisory panels. The failure comes during a time of…

When the city failed a homeless child six years ago, Christina Gaddis got a knock on her door.

In 1996, the Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority — commonly known as the D.C. Financial Control Board, the federal entity that took over the District’s finances in the mid 1990s — released a startling report titled…

Every student learns that the American Revolution was born, at least in part, out of the conviction that there can be “no taxation without representation.” More than just a slogan, this rallying cry represents the essence of…

The administration’s neglect of DC’s archival treasures suggests… no.

This is the year to spur the future housing affordability in the District of Columbia. The comprehensive plan amendment guiding development, along with the District’s policy direction, for the next several years will come before the D.C.…

According to the Washington Business Journal’s 2020 Book of Lists, the D.C. Chamber is the No. 2 ranked chamber in Greater Washington after ranking fourth in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The chamber’s strong revenue performance in 2019 of nearly…

The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board recently approved a historic landmark nomination for Barry Farm Dwellings, a Ward 8 public housing complex set on land that slopes upward from the Anacostia River and overlooks downtown…

President Trump’s deceitful diatribe against respected U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is his latest assault on the judiciary’s independence.

Representation matters. If it didn’t, those in the seat of power wouldn’t fight so hard to keep others out. We have seen first-hand what it can do, and what it means to have it be taken away.

In 1919, a five-story luxury hotel called the Whitelaw opened in the District. Built by black people for black people, the hotel was an elegant response to the entrenchment of racial segregation under President Woodrow Wilson.

This week, I renewed my driver’s license in the District of Columbia. It was fast and easy. And I don’t have to do it again for eight years. This frightens me.

AT WASHINGTON Metropolitan High School, an alternative school in the D.C. public school system, just 10 percent of students meet expectations on state assessments in English. None of the school’s 157 students meet expectations in math.…

LGBTQ seniors, in particular, often face unique challenges due to discrimination in health care and housing. According to SAGE USA, LGBT seniors are five times less likely to seek medical care or social services than the general public…

Most college applicants tout their high school transcripts. Ana Petricic-Tinto has to explain hers.

In the two years since a graduation controversy at Ballou High School exposed a serious student absenteeism problem across the city, D.C.’s traditional public schools and many of its public charter schools have deployed numerous…

Last year, U.S. News & World Report editor Joseph P. Williams wrote about the trials of living in the D.C. suburbs without a car. He relayed a 2012 “tumble down the economic ladder” during which he was evicted from his apartment near…

“We knew that baby was in trouble,” she said, turtle-hunched inside her jacket against the rain as she waited for the D6 bus with a knot of other women who live in a motel on one of the District’s ugliest stretches of street. “It’s Relisha…

WHEN FATAL opioid overdoses peaked in the District in 2017 with the deaths of 281 people, it was clear that one of the factors was the city government’s sluggish — some said negligent — approach to the problem. Not only was there no real…