Opinion

We need community-based solutions and partnerships to stem the tide of teacher shortages that lead to increased class sizes, uncertified teachers and teachers assigned outside their subject area. We are trying out a unique program we…

Everyone deserves a second chance. That includes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which has the chance to reconsider its ruling that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority can ban the Catholic…

DISTRICT RESIDENTS can enjoy frozen yogurt at Menchie’s, fresh salads at Sweetgreen or craft beer at the Bruery Store — but not if they want to pay with cash. These establishments, along with many others in the city, have opted to only…

John Kelly’s Aug. 28 Metro column on the efforts of Southern segregationists to expand their reach into the D.C. area, “In the 1960s, a daring effort brought down a Maryland White Citizens’ Council,” noted that many Citizens Councils “had…

Ward 4 voters will head to the polls in 2018 not once, not twice, but three times. Or, at least that’s what we hope happens. In addition to the now-passed June 19th primary and the upcoming general election on November 6th, Ward 4 has a…

The D.C. government is working on plans to get rid of the biggest elephant under the city’s redevelopment tent and return the Washington Redskins to the nation’s capital.

FROM AFFORDABLE housing to Metro to the occasional water-supply glitch, the District has its share of issues and problems. It is our job to hold the city accountable on those subjects but, just now, we’d like to focus on the bigger picture:…

Curiosity led Vernesha Poindexter to walk outside when she heard the gunfire. She didn’t know then that 42 bullets had been fired down a nearby street in Southeast D.C. She didn’t know that at least eight of those bullets had hit a…

Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted a most intriguing question on Monday: “What qualities do want in your @dcpublicschools Chancellor? Let us know at tomorrow’s @OurSchoolsDC Chancellor Search Engagement Forum.”

Back-to-school week is always a reminder of just how unpleasant traveling in our city can be. In late August each year, the street next to my neighborhood school fills with honking and yelling in the morning as a few hundred anxious parents…

One thing you don’t see in Polish cities — at least not in Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow, certainly not if you’re visiting as a guest of the foreign ministry — is many homeless people. National estimates have varied widely in the past decade,…

DC is growing, and as this spring’s passionate debate about the DC Comprehensive Plan revealed, managing this growth is one of the most important and contentious city planning discussions of our time. However, decisions about historic…

Outrage. Washington, especially Washington in the age of Trump, is rarely short on outrage. And while the entire region has been in various degrees of apoplexy all summer over lying white guys in suits, three little girls couldn’t buy ice…

It was the 1960s, and the Washington Evening Star’s nightlife columnist John Segraves happened to be working at the precise instant that the typical newspaper music critic was morphing from someone like him — short hair, white shirt, jacket…

The 9-year-old just had to see her locker, one she had already envisioned decorating with wallpaper and glittery things, before she was ready to say goodbye to her father. The 12-year-old was a bit more hesitant.

On a hot, hazy Saturday afternoon, members of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association gathered for their monthly meeting outdoors, in the shade of a large oak tree, across from the place many of them used to call home. Their community…

FROM THE uproar over graduation practices to the scandal over the improper high school placement of the schools chancellor’s daughter, there was plenty of bad news about the District’s public school system last school year. So it was…

Regarding the Aug. 17 Metro article “D.C. Water to overhaul alerts after July missteps”: Can we pause to recognize and applaud municipal accountability and leadership at work?

As giddy students and nervous parents begin the new school year in D.C. on Monday, it’s the perfect time to deliver report cards on Mayor Muriel Bowser, the elected official in charge of our public schools.

Ruth Ann was finally back in his arms. “May 7, 2017,” he said. “That was the last time I held her.” In the year and three months he’d been apart from Ruth Ann, his hands went a little janky. They’d been together for 24 years, so holding her…