Opinion

When rich people move in, they often displace residents. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

APPEARING BEFORE the D.C. Council at the start of its consideration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) proposed fiscal 2020 budget, the city’s independent chief financial officer, Jeffrey S. DeWitt, warned of “yellow flashing signals” in the…

From her wheelchair, Anna Landre can only see the top half of the ad, but it’s enough to make her stop in the middle of a walkway on Georgetown University’s campus. It shows a boy with one leg wearing a baseball uniform.

Ward 3 Democratic D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh is known for her keen interest in identifying fraudulent activity in city government. Cheh has now raised the possibility that the District government has been “defrauded” in the awarding…

Throughout my time as a cook, an entrepreneur and a nonprofit founder, I have been reminded time and again, from the District to Puerto Rico, of the incredible power of food to bring people together.

In his March 30 op-ed, “Is D.C. headed for a ’90s-style crisis?,” Colbert I. King scrutinized D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) fiscal 2020 proposed budget and questioned sustainability in an uncertain future. The budget should also be…

In May 2014, the administration of then-Mayor Vincent Gray selected a team led by the Peebles Corp. to develop the D.C.-owned lot at Fifth and Eye streets NW. Peebles was chosen in part, the announcement declared, because it bid the…

I take no stand in the debate over removing President Woodrow Wilson’s name from an excellent public high school in Northwest Washington.

Anyone who lived through the District’s financial crisis in the 1990s knows it was the kind of calamity this city must avoid repeating. I watched the event unfold from my perch on The Post’s editorial board, where we opined nonstop about…

In my budget certification letter, I state that the fiscal 2020 to 2023 budget and financial plan are balanced. I stand by that statement.

D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson delivered a critically important message to the public the other day.

In Mayor Muriel Bowser’s second inaugural address in January, she announced an ambitious goal: create 36,000 new housing units in the District of Columbia by 2025. She is the first government official in our region to commit to an…

The nation’s capital has a new monster.

If you have ever read a government resolution, you know they are written in a way no one speaks.

After identifying various abuses endemic to the D.C. Jail, a report issued late last month by the Office of the D.C. Auditor concluded that the “persistence and seriousness” of the facility’s hazardous conditions “clearly point to the need…

Having the right goal but pursuing it for the wrong reason can lead to a bad result.

The District is facing an affordability crisis. Residents new and old, from all eight wards and of all races, ages and family sizes are finding it increasingly difficult to balance the costs of child care, utilities, transportation, health…

WHEN SHE was on the D.C. Council, a notable accomplishment of Muriel E. Bowser (D) was pushing through legislation that established an independent board to investigate and enforce government ethics rules. Members of the new board were…

Increasingly, DC's workforce is comprised of either high-income or low-income jobs, with few middle-income jobs available. Among DC’s most common occupations, 40% are low wage jobs that do not pay enough to cover the city’s high housing…