Jim Foster on Anacostia Watershed Society blog: What Does Success Look Like?
Every organization or project starts with an exercise where leaders ask themselves: “what does success look like?”
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Ramina Davidson on Greater Washington Community Foundation blog: How do we end youth homelessness in DC?
Washington, DC has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the nation. The 2018 Youth Count DC estimated that more than 1,300 unaccompanied youth, youth separated from family, and youth heads of household were experiencing homelessness…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: ‘Please don’t kill the sunflowers’: The Phantom Planter says Metro destroyed more than 100 sunflowers at the Dupont Circle station
On a Tuesday, Henry Docter stood at the Dupont Circle Metro station and counted the blooming sunflowers. A half dozen had opened their petals, and more than 100 were growing.
Yesim Sayin Taylor of D.C. Policy Center: Growing labor demand in D.C. is driving up wages
Recent reports increasingly point to a slowdown in the Washington regional economy, slower hiring in the District, and stronger private sector employment in the city. A deeper dive into jurisdictional differences across the metropolitan…
David O’Leary in The Post: Ending penalties for sex work isn’t the solution
D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) recently resubmitted a bill to legalize prostitution in the District .
Jack McCarthy in The Post: Charter schools need space, too
In the June 17 editorial “Punishing at-risk students,” the District’s Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn claimed the District bent over backward to help AppleTree find a location for our Tier 1 charter preschool and called us…
Alejandro Chavez in The Post: The Cesar Chavez name is more than a prop
Cesar Chavez, my grandfather, spent his life standing up for workers’ rights. His faith in the power of nonviolent organizing to bring about social change and his tireless efforts to build the United Farm Workers union inspired me and many…
Roger K. Lewis in The Post: Yes, D.C.’s a world-class city — but it’s really only affordable to people with world-class incomes
It is not an exaggeration to characterize the District and the greater Washington region as a cosmopolitan, world-class capital. Yet when I first moved here from Boston in 1967, such a characterization would have been, well, laughable.
Robert McCartney in The Post: Metro’s clumsy Jack Evans probe would be laughable, except the stakes are so high
Metro’s ethics investigation of board chairman Jack Evans has grown so surreal that D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser was demanding Tuesday to see the full legal report on the probe, which board members say does not exist, and Maryland Gov.…
Courtland Milloy in The Post: D.C. Witness aims to give voice to every homicide victim in the District. The work never seems to end.
Since 2015, a group of aspiring young journalists has chronicled every homicide in the District on the site D.C. Witness. No killing goes unnoticed. Every victim gets a story, usually accompanied by a photo. Every arrest. Every courtroom…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: The murder of black transgender women is becoming a crisis
“They’re just getting so blunt,” Ruby Corado said. “It’s just out there. It used to be more isolated.”
Washington Post Editorial Board: Children are suffering because D.C. won’t look out for public charter schools
EARLY-CHILDHOOD learning is supposedly a top priority of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) administration. So why on earth are city officials displacing and forcing the closure of a high-performing preschool that serves at-risk 3- and…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: ‘The American healthcare system has just, quite literally, ruined my future,’ a disabled Georgetown student tweeted. Then she got a reprieve.
Less than a week after she left Georgetown University for summer break, Anna Landre clicked on an email and realized everything she had worked for was about to slip away.
Phil Mendelson and Charles Allen: Here’s why D.C.’s CFO is wrong on the budget
News broke this week that the District’s chief financial officer is refusing to certify the budget passed by the D.C. Council, set to take effect on Oct. 1. The key hang-up is whether the council can redirect millions of tax dollars that…
Corwin Knight in The Post: D.C. should expand voting rights to its incarcerated citizens
As a returning citizen, I try to help my brothers and sisters affected by mass incarceration. This is why I support the Restore the Vote Amendment Act of 2019, legislation sponsored by D.C. Council member Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large)…
Colbert King in The Post: D.C.’s sports betting contract reeks of cronyism
D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey S. DeWitt has drawn attention to himself this week, but not necessarily in a good way.
Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: Elected leaders should be held accountable for abuse in D.C. schools
Do you know who’s minding your children? Do you want to know?
Washington Post Editorial Board: The D.C. Council is playing chicken on funding. It’s awfully risky.
D.C. OFFICIALS have boasted for the past year or so that the city was among the fastest in the country in getting an upgrade of its credit rating to the top level. They patted themselves on the back for their sound fiscal management. But…
Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: Sex, lies and idiocy
As a young reporter, I once prowled the city’s red-light district looking for prostitutes to tell me what life was like, and several were obliged to talk as long as I walked with them.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: She wrote a book about domestic violence. Then its carnage shook her own life.
Rachel Louise Snyder has written about child brides in Romania, abused women in India, the forced sterilization of women in Tibet, and violence against women in Cambodia and Niger.