Opinion

THE PUBLIC has been aware for months that a federal program created to steer government business to small companies in disadvantaged areas has actually subsidized companies in the District’s most affluent areas, to the tune of $540…

EIGHT MONTHS after Javed Bhutto was shot and killed — allegedly by a neighbor who had been discharged from St. Elizabeths Hospital after nearly 18 years of treatment for having killed someone else in another unprovoked shooting — D.C.…

It seems the Redskins are welcome to return to the RFK site, only District residents don’t want to pay for it. Sorry, that’s not how this works.

Brandi Forte keeps the job posting brief.

Let’s face it. On the proverbial plane of economic development, the District of Columbia is in the middle seat fighting for elbow room with Maryland on one side and Virginia on the other. We have a history of challenging business practices…

In 2008, when city leaders passed the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Amendment Act, the District started to build what became the first-ever universal prekindergarten program in the country and allocated robust funding to implement,…

Take a stroll through Shaw or Navy Yard, and you’re likely to end up walking past a juice bar, a workout studio or a glitzy new high-rise. The surge of such amenities into previously low-income neighborhoods attests to the fact that the…

It didn’t matter that Noreen Beatley didn’t know any of the homeless children. When she learned that they needed to cross two busy roads and then take multiple forms of public transportation to get to and from school, she offered to serve…

Authentic. Groundbreaking. Compassionate. Loving. These are some of the words that come to mind when I think about the Whittier Education Campus community. I often joke with my staff that Whittier is the best-kept secret in the District of…

To better understand what the fight over bike lanes in the District is about, it apparently helps to visit Copenhagen. The capital of Denmark, population 800,000, has the kind of bicycle “highway” system that some city leaders are hoping…

The posters were huge, and the cheers were loud when the kids finally returned to their classrooms.

But elected officials in the District tend to avert their gaze from such an unpleasant truth.

THE LATEST scores on standardized tests show the District’s traditional schools outperforming the gains made by the city’s public charter schools. You might think that would rankle the executive director of D.C.’s Public Charter School…

This week, I received an email announcing that Vivek H. Murthy has endorsed Kishan Putta for the D.C. Council. Thus, a trifecta: I don’t know: 1) who Murthy is, 2) who Putta is or 3) which council seat Putta is seeking.

“Anything on the tables. Take it,” she announced to the room, after getting everyone’s attention with the golden ping of a Tibetan singing bowl.

The latest revelations of Jack Evans’s alleged ethics violations appear to leave little doubt that he will have to give up his powerful seat on the D.C. Council. The main question now is how much longer he can hang on and further damage…

The warning signs were evident last month when enterprise leaders, economic analysts, and a previous city mayor and the current D.C. Council chair gathered at the University of the District of Columbia to assess the state of the local and…

School buildings ought to be used as schools, particularly when there are 12,000 students on waiting lists to attend a high-quality public charter school. It’s common sense, but it lately seems out of fashion at the Wilson Building. D.C.…

JAVED BHUTTO was shot and killed March 1 as he unloaded groceries from the trunk of his car in the parking lot of his condo complex in Southeast Washington. His alleged killer was his neighbor, a man who had killed someone else in another…

In the future, where D.C. Council member Jack Evans finds himself seated will depend upon where his council colleagues and the U.S. attorney stand on his performance while in office.