Kriston Capps in CityLab: The Problem With D.C.’s New Apple Store
The city has converted a cultural gem entrusted to the entire city into an exclusive outlet that serves only the few.
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Ike Brannon in The Washington Times: Parking in the nation’s capital is a giveaway to the rich
A recent proposal to raise the city’s current $35 annual fee for an on-street residential parking permit to $50 has run into predictable opposition from those who protest that increasing the fee is regressive and unaffordable for many…
Chris Richards in The Post: Go-go’s fight against gentrification is just getting started. This is what it sounds like.
Go-go is many things. Dance music, party music, proudly local community music, black music, sacred music. And when it feels like all of those things at once, it’s a model of everlasting life.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: A man in a wheelchair couldn’t get to a wedding in a public park.
This is what accessibility looks like 30 years after the ADA passed.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: A city of strivers, and the places they sob
Mostly, it’s the young and ambitious strivers, the fired-up idealists, the aspiring disrupters who move to the nation’s capital.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Count among the things that divide Washington: Azaleas
Cynthia Terrell and I get the obvious out of the way. We acknowledge that there are so many higher-stakes things we could talk about. Political things. Gender inequality things. Social justice things.
Colbert King in The Post: D.C.’s feed-the-homeless contract controversy may really be about food, not fraud
Last month I wrote about the controversy over how contracts were awarded to provide food services to D.C. homeless shelters — including accusations that the District might have been defrauded. Since then, I’ve received new information and…
Nathan Kohrman in The Post: As Woodrow Wilson High School grapples with its name, the school is getting whiter
Woodrow Wilson High School is among the District’s most racially integrated institutions. And it’s named after one of American history’s most powerful segregationists.
Roger K. Lewis in The Post: Art installations bring light and beauty where urban areas need it most
Metropolitan Washington’s persistent urban challenges are frequently in the news. The concerns include ensuring public safety; providing quality public education; increasing the availability of affordable housing; promoting accessibility…
Karen Gardner in The Post: D.C. missed a deadline. And our students will pay the price.
Earlier this year, the District government missed a deadline to reapply for federal AmeriCorps funding, leaving $3.5 million requested by the nonprofits Reading Partners, Literacy Lab and City Year in jeopardy. When this error came to…
Courtland Milloy in The Post: Howard students are studying gentrification and seeking answers to minimize the harm
When it comes to Howard University and the subject of gentrification, we tend to hear more about the student protests than their academic pursuits.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: ‘It’s scary’: Why we flinch when white nationalists stage a protest at a bookstore
A small group of white nationalists marched into a sacred place in Washington over the weekend.
Ed Lazere on the DC Fiscal Policy Institute blog: Reversing School Budget Cuts in Wards 7 and 8 Should Be a Top Priority
The proposed fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget shortchanges all DCPS schools, but particularly schools in Wards 7 and 8, which have the largest concentration of low-income students of color. In a city with both growing prosperity and deepening…
Washington Post Editorial Board: A 9-year-old boy was chased and handcuffed for leaning on a car in D.C. He deserves an apology.
A 9-YEAR-OLD boy was leaning against a car in Northwest Washington when a D.C. police officer told him to leave. The boy mouthed off to the officer. He shouldn’t have. But what followed — the clearly terrified young boy chased by police…
Mark Lee in The Washington Blade: D.C. hospitality is ‘hood-group hood-winked
Hoodwinking season is at full bloom in neighborhoods throughout D.C.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: ‘It hurt’: A 9-year-old boy was handcuffed. But how many other D.C. children have also been?
The boy soiled his pants. I don’t know if that detail disturbs me more because it shows how scared the 9-year-old must have felt or because it is a reminder of how much closer he sits on his lifeline to toddlerhood than manhood.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. students wrote essays about their fear of violence. Everyone should read them.
“AS CHILDREN, we should be safe, especially in the nation’s capital right? We shouldn’t have to worry about our lives being taken right? We shouldn’t have to pray for miracles right?” That 13-year-old Aliyah Harrison even had to ask those…
Colbert King in The Post: D.C. must do more to protect its youth. Breon Austin’s death proves that.
Breon Austin’s death hit home. At 16 , he was close in age to two of my grandchildren. A young person’s death always hits hard.
Kip Banks Sr. in The Post: A young man was killed right outside my D.C. church. I’ve had enough.
On April 1, an African American man was shot multiple times, right across the street from the church I pastor, East Washington Heights Baptist Church. That man later died.
John Adams in The Post: Metro, please don’t fall for China’s trap and buy their rail cars
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority did the right thing when it extended the deadline for proposals from manufacturers for its next series of rail cars. WMATA’s decision is good news, provided that it addresses cybersecurity…