Opinion

Given history, it is understandable that supporters and critics of anti-discrimination laws focus on ethnicity. Yet these laws and regulations specifically name other “protected classes,” and efforts to weaken regulations and their…

When Orange, Blue and Silver Line Metrorail trains stop at the Stadium-Armory station, they pause at the gates of the two biggest real estate headaches in the District: To the northeast, RFK Stadium sits empty, with Major League Soccer’s…

As many of you are aware, the Los Angeles Unified School District and Mayor Eric Garcetti recently ended a labor strike by making concessions to the United Teachers Union.

When Bernard Demczuk does diversity and cultural awareness training with police, he gives a history lesson. Call it: Why black people distrust police.

This past weekend four men were killed in the District.

So this came as somewhat of surprise to me. Apparently, I have a great love of my adopted hometown. After many years of living in this fascinating city, with all of its complexities and contradictions, I find myself falling in love all…

In an Oct. 2 news release, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced a proposal for mixed-use development in Ward 8, the city’s most impoverished community, located east of the Anacostia River. The ambitious project, Bowser stated, would be…

With the 116th Congress underway, D.C. residents are committed to ensuring that the House of Representatives takes up and passes H.R. 51, the D.C. statehood bill. Residents are under no illusion that the Senate will do the same or that the…

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The new Acting Chancellor of DC Public Schools, Lewis Ferebee, started his first day of school on Thursday greeting staff, parents and students at Anne Beers Elementary School in Southeast, D.C.

One year ago, The New York Times published “36 Hours in Washington, D.C.," a generally positive review of the District beyond K Street, with a backhanded compliment to kick it off: “No longer does the city derisively dubbed ‘the swamp’ by…

Don’t be fooled by its homely appearance, the empty lot at 3601 M Street NW in Georgetown (formerly an Exxon station) is one of the hottest pieces of real estate in town. Coveted by the Georgetown-Rosslyn Gondola Coalition (full…

On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, and we became one of only two countries (along with Syria) not signed onto the accord. Four days later, on June 5, I stood…

The debate over sports wagering in D.C. has a lot to learn from startups and the tech industry. In the world of tech, it pays to be first.

Last year, homicides in the District were up 38 percent. There were 160, compared with fewer than 90 in 2012. Yet violent crime overall has been declining year after year. Last year, assault with a dangerous weapon was down 10 percent. The…

Democracy depends on transparency in its public institutions. To ensure that the needs of all people are served, residents and public officials must have the right to inquire and criticize. There is no institution for which this is truer…

Earlier this week, Washington, D.C., councilmember Brandon Todd proposed legislation that would dramatically increase the number of dual language immersion (DLI) programs in the nation’s capital. This is hardly a surprise. In a city like…

It’s perhaps no surprise that Mayor Muriel Bowser selected Lewis Ferebee to be the next chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. His work at Indianapolis Public Schools made him a rising star nationally. His five-year tenure (above average for…

Perhaps one of the biggest policy no-brainers on its merits that apparently remains politically unfeasible is statehood for the District of Columbia, which has a population larger than Wyoming and Vermont but still has no voting…

They don’t know yet what they will say or whether they will use any data to back up their points. But someday soon, three teenage girls will stand in front of an administrator at their D.C. school and make an important request:

Lewis D. Ferebee, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s nominee for D.C. Public Schools chancellor, came to town last week to call on the council members charged with his confirmation. He left the John A. Wilson Building unscathed, but with little in…