Opinion

Walter C. Pierce Community Park in Adams Morgan is a much-used, much-loved city park. The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation plans to spend about $800,000 in changes there this fall. The projects include a new playground, dog-park…

On the southwest corner of Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown sits an empty and abandoned building. Built in 1937 and known as the Chesapeake House, this two-story, five-sided brick building is now a shell of its former self, with boarded-up…

At first blush, the dispute over relocating Banneker high school to the former Shaw Junior High site vs. building a middle school on the Shaw grounds might be chalked up to a clash of legitimate claims between competing public school…

When Republicans and Democrats snipe at each other over spending, the hype is par for the discourse in Washington.

I come from a line of strong, black, Washington women who fought for high-quality education.

Privacy experts call them “Little Brothers.”

Population growth in the District of Columbia is slowing and migration patterns are changing.

If Astra Armstrong’s life were a play, the opening scene would show an elementary school playground in Southeast Washington in the middle of the night. There, a basketball hoop without a net would sit near a slide and a set of monkey bars.…

In her proposed 2020 budget, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) addresses what she says is the city’s No. 1 issue: affordable housing. I agree. Lawmakers should be working overtime to create and preserve affordable housing so that our…

President Trump’s governing style seems to have brushed off on D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser. If so, she’s not having much luck with it.

The disturbing statistics linking geography in and around Washington with recent life-expectancy rates buries the hard truth: the District is still a city sadly divided by race, class and income.

By 2025, Washington, D.C., needs to add 36,000 new units of housing.

Join us for The Story of The Little Special Purpose Revenue Fund That Could. It could give and give and give, just not to the improvements it was set up to make.

Alice M. Rivlin, who died Tuesday at 88, was not some callous budget maven or austere fiscal hawk who cared only about balanced budgets and financial austerity. She wanted government to work and investment to flow back into the District in…

FOUNDING DIRECTOR of the Congressional Budget Office. Vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s…

The District’s latest “health equity” maps shows a city divided by race and income. How well you live, or sometimes whether you live at all, can depend on what side of the line you are on.

In November 2018, I had the pleasure of being named chair of the National League of Cities (NLC) Housing Task Force. The 22 members of the task force and I have worked diligently over the last six months to develop a set of recommendations…

MAYOR MURIEL E. BOWSER’S proposal to legalize and regulate the sale of marijuana might well lead to a confrontation with Congress. So be it. The current law that allows D.C. residents to grow and possess, but not to purchase, small amounts…

The Washington metropolitan region, or as many call it, the DMV, has struggled for decades when it comes to acting regionally. The fundamental reason is obvious: Our region is made up of the one-of-a-kind District of Columbia and parts of…

D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) introduced a bill to expand the Freedom of Information Act to public charter schools. FOIA allows anyone to obtain any records of an organization unless the records are subject to certain…