Opinion

Months ago, the D.C. Council wisely moved ahead to consider legalizing sports betting. Since the Supreme Court declared the ban on a state’s right to authorize sports betting to be unconstitutional, states across the country have been…

The behavior of several so-called liberal members of the DC Council has continued to flummox some residents, business owners, and myself. While those legislators have claimed they support small, local and minority companies, their actions…

If all goes as scheduled, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) will ask D.C. lawmakers at Tuesday’s legislative meeting to approve a measure that would remove council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) as chairman of the Committee on Finance…

The mounting national assault on the right of a woman to choose provides yet another urgent reason why we all must fight for statehood on Capitol Hill, around the country, and in the streets.

It started with a bartender.

The proposed $215 million contract to oversee sports gambling pending before the D.C. Council will channel up to $116 million over five years to a small circle of politically connected D.C. companies billed as subcontractors. Should it…

WHEN THE D.C. Public Schools system instituted a comprehensive teacher evaluation system in 2009, it was guided by certain basic principles. Teachers should be judged based on their skill, their commitment and their success in getting…

This month, the District will see a set of historic milestones. The Fourth will mark the first time a president has overhauled the decades-old nonpartisan Independence Day celebration with a new fireworks display. Twenty days later,…

For a moment, imagine that you couldn’t talk and were in pain.

A MAN with a gun demanded oral sex from a group of transgender women as they walked near an outreach center for LGBTQ people in Northwest Washington. A young gay couple was attacked near a bar on U Street NW in the District by a group of…

THE ROAR of whirring blades and the rumble of shaking houses have become impossible to ignore in parts of Bethesda, one of many areas in the Washington region in which complaints of low-flying air traffic have spiked in the past four…

Standing on the stoop outside the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Charay Johnson warns me that we don’t have much time.

The nation’s most admired yet chronically underfunded federal agency is proposing changes to the Georgetown segment of the C&O Canal that are, at best, well intentioned but ill advised.

This month, a mob reportedly shouting an anti-gay epithet attacked two gay men on U Street NW. Sadly, attacks on LGBTQ people in the District have more than doubled since 2015. And last year was the worst on record, with 60 reported…

WHEN METRO was confronted in 2012 with serious concerns about the involvement of a board member in a controversial real estate deal, it responded in a serious way: It hired an internationally renowned law firm. It conducted an independent…

D.C. Council member Jack Evans has done his colleagues a favor. As he succumbs to charges of corruption, he’s given them the opportunity to exercise true oversight on the sole-source sports betting contract he maneuvered through the D.C.…

In recent days there have been widely reported dual chirpings of two separate coalmine canaries in D.C. The question is whether local elected officials will listen to these warnings or ignore both to the city’s economic detriment.

The liquor license for Trump International Hotel in downtown D.C. is up for renewal. And a group of D.C. residents made up of clergy members and judges is asking ABRA to deny the license because the man who is running the country isn’t…

METRO BOARD Chairman Jack Evans has acknowledged — contrary to his earlier outspoken denials — that he did indeed violate the transit system’s ethical code of conduct by failing to disclose a conflict of interest. He apologized and said he…

Last week, several Silicon Valley giants came to Washington, but they didn’t come here to meet with Congress or to discuss tech policy. Instead, they met with local businesses leaders and D.C. government officials to talk about a crisis…