Opinion

The eight majestic willow oaks flourished for decades. Kids played hide-and-seek among their trunks. They shaded nearly a hundred years of first kisses, long talks and lazy afternoons. And they were the silent witnesses to the drug deals,…

FOUR MINUTES and one second. That is how long it took before D.C. firefighters were dispatched to the blaze at a Northwest rowhouse last month. Was there a delay in sending help that might have contributed to the deaths of two people? Or…

Wyoming has two senators and over 1.3 million cattle. DC has no senators, three cows and many more people. How is this fair? It's time for statehood.

In 1788, two years before Washington, D.C. became the seat of the nation’s government, James Madison wrote that the future inhabitants in the yet-to-be-chosen federal district should have a “voice in the election of the government which is…

It’s the place where people have come to remember an astronaut, a civil rights activist and a world leader.

The events being staged this week by D.C. officials ahead of Thursday’s House hearing on D.C. statehood are part of a campaign to raise awareness about the injustice of D.C. disenfranchisement. But the key to making this week’s historic…

About a decade ago, back when smartphones were a new thing, my cellular carrier kept pestering me to upgrade.

It is certainly no secret that D.C., and the entire Washington metropolitan area, ranks as one of the very most expensive places to live in the country. A comprehensive study released last week starkly underscores the need for a…

According to a WTOP report last month on the prevalence of the illegal street drug “K2” in the District, “There have been more than 3,000 K2 overdose cases through July, marking a 128 percent increase of the same stretch of time last year,…

As their recent pontification shows, two D.C. Council members who represent the largely segregated area known as East of the River are recommending a name change. It is a serious suggestion but is without serious merit or community…

A bruising choreographed rollout of the news. Zero notice. No plan to help laid-off staffers find jobs in the organization. Is this the best our hometown paper can do?

We will never solve the country’s persistent affordable housing problem unless fiscal and land-use policies change dramatically, and unless views and attitudes of American voters and their elected representatives also change.

The D.C. government has a law on the books: D.C. charter schools have a “first right of offer” on vacant school buildings. But the D.C. government has a conflicting policy: If a schoolhouse owned by the city is closed, first right of…

I’ve always known this day would come, but I’ve chosen to think of it the way you might contemplate the death of the sun. Sure, it’s inevitable, but no need to worry about it today.

When most people think of Washington, D.C., they think of the White House, the Capitol and the Washington Monument. Like 700,000 other people, I think of it as home—a place full of culture, and a place where people raise their families.…

When last year’s fifth graders at Tubman Elementary showed up for the first day of sixth grade at Columbia Heights Education Campus last month, there were already teachers at their middle school who knew them. Teachers at CHEC, as the…

RFK Stadium is headed for the graveyard. Sniff, sniff.

What could possibly be missing in today’s D.C.?

As an outdoor and recreational enthusiast, I cannot think of many cities where historically designated parks such as McMillan become slated for commercial development without the due diligence measures of an environmental impact study and…