Opinion

I was disappointed by the April 17 front-page article “Housing vouchers roil a pricey D.C. building.” The article’s characterization of an increase in tenants with housing vouchers at a Northwest D.C. apartment building as a “high-stakes…

Mayor Muriel Bowser chose the fattest budget in the District’s history to stiff Attorney General Karl Racine. The AG, arguably the most popular and effective elected D.C. official, requested to increase his office’s budget by $5 million…

Some D.C. residents may still think it’s okay to walk a dog across Howard University’s central yard.

IN THE past two years, there have been five different proposals affecting the commercial tax rate in the District. Two became law, and if the D.C. Council goes along with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plans for a higher rate to fund next year’s…

The District as the new Amsterdam? Maybe.

While many are confounded by the subject of reparations for slavery, students at Georgetown University have acted on the courage of their convictions.

The champion of safe biking died on his bike. He was my friend and fellow advocate, and I’ll never be the same.

If placed end to end, the length of structurally deficient bridges in the D.C. area would stretch nearly four miles and cover the area of 18 football fields, according to a new analysis of federal government data we released this month.…

According to data from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, the D.C. government “engaged” homeless encampments 100 times in 2018. “Engagement” in this case refers to encampment “cleanups” carried out under the…

A recent National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) study confirms what everyone living here can feel: Washington, DC, has gentrified more intensely than any other city.

My name is Monica Diaz. I was recently featured in a front-page Washington Post story, along with my husband Pete and our dog Sassy. I was homeless for two years, and it was the worst experience of my life: sleepless and cold nights, so…

The U.S. Supreme Court’s acceptance of a gerrymandering case arising from the U.S. District Court in Maryland has piqued the interest of the District of Columbia.

LAST MONTH, CHARLES ALLEN, a member of the Washington, DC Council, introduced the Public School Transparency Amendment Act of 2019, which would extend the same sunshine laws applied to traditional public schools to publicly funded charter…

THE DISTRICT’S charter school sector has been largely untouched as charter school opponents across the country have waged an increasingly relentless campaign against them. That is mainly due to the enormous popularity of the schools that…

The April 7 editorial “The District’s budget warning” rightfully noted that D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey S. DeWitt certified the fiscal 2020 budget and four-year financial plan as balanced. Then it warned the D.C. Council about the…

Once a year during Black History Month, young Max Lyttle would become the center of attention at his Baltimore Catholic elementary school.

The blood-thirst of special-interest partisans attempting to force an ouster of D.C. Council member Jack Evans belies their transparent political intent. It reveals both lingering anger by far-left activists still stinging from the defeat…

What a battle about loud music on a D.C. corner tells us about gentrification, race, and the life of a city.

In black letters on a blue poster board, a question beckons from a wall at Duke Ellington School of the Arts: “Why is it hard for you to take responsibility for your mistakes?”