Opinion

An examination of new voter registrations in D.C. during the past 12 months reveals a noticeable trend consistent with nationwide voter preferences.

IN TERMS of criminal notoriety, no convicted felon from the District of Columbia can compete with Rayful Edmond III, the crack cocaine kingpin who sat astride the city’s narcotics trade as it spun out of control three decades ago. Flashy,…

OF THE 12 traffic deaths that have occurred in the District this year, three happened in just one weekend. The deaths of a bicyclist, a pedestrian and a motorist over Easter weekend in April prompted a flurry of proposals from D.C. Council…

District of Columbia regulations require the public schools to provide an equal educational opportunity for all of the city’s students.

Here’s an alert for D.C. taxpayers and other stakeholders — and that includes you. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Wednesday morning that the city is suing six Maryland parents for fraudulently claiming D.C. residency so they…

Don Fraser, who died this week at the age of 95, was an eight-term congressman from Minnesota and the longest-serving mayor of Minneapolis. He was also the father of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, the elected government entities that…

I started my career teaching at Kramer Junior High School, the lowest-ranked school in the District, when our city had the dubious honor of having the worst public school system in the country. Twenty years later, we’d birthed a charter…

The D.C. Council spent a significant amount of time discussing health access, especially access to hospitals, during budget deliberations this past month. We wondered: how does access to pharmacies—one of the simplest and most basic form…

While the D.C. Council and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) fight over the location of Benjamin Banneker Academic High, the District’s best-performing secondary school, we hear nothing about how to improve the lot of those students attending six…

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts,” wrote Rachel Carson, the biologist and federal employee whose books helped launch the modern environmental movement. Great…

It is 7 a.m. on a steel-hued morning in April 2007. Walking up the street from the metro, camera on my back, the smell of ashes and suet wafting in the breeze, I glimpse the devastation. The Eastern Market is a smoldering wreck.

The Council is in the process of approving higher fees for yearly residential parking permits. Instead of paying $35 per car, District residents will pay $50 for their first car, $75 for their second, $100 for their third and $150 for…

The most fundamental premise upon which American democracy stands is the right of every citizen to cast a vote and have that vote counted equally. From Bunker Hill to Bull Run, from Seneca Falls to Selma, the arc of our history has been…

A day after 15-year-old Maurice Scott was shot and killed a few blocks from his Washington D.C. charter school, Demont Pinder got to work.

DC’s private sector is now a larger share of the economy, and the City cannot count on increased federal spending to offset negative impacts

The six men gathered on a porch in Southeast Washington were reminiscing. Buddies since childhood, they were now in their late 70s and have been getting together at least once a month for the past 30 years.

Hack. Hack. Hack. The tattooed ex-boxer hacked at the cutting board with a 10-inch chef’s knife. “No. That’s not right,” chef Carletta Fletcher said, taking the knife and grimacing at the juicy green swamp he’d made out of a roll of basil…

The D.C. Council could vote soon on funding two public hospitals at once.

D.C. LAWMAKERS have finally decided to do something about the wasteful spending at the troubled public hospital in Southeast. We wish we could applaud the move to cap spending and eventually close the hospital, but it is long overdue and —…

METRO HAS concluded its investigation into the actions of Jack Evans (D), the District’s Ward 2 council member who serves as board chairman. What the inquiry concluded and how it was conducted remain a mystery. Such secrecy is clearly…