Elections

Education and quality of life took center stage at a recent forum with the two candidates vying for Ward 3’s seat on the DC Council: Democratic incumbent Mary Cheh and independent challenger Petar Dimtchev. With the Nov. 6 election…

As Election Day nears, candidates forums scheduled this week and next will give voters a chance to learn more about the views of the six candidates vying for two at-large DC Council seats. On Wednesday evening, the Hill Rag will join…

With at-large DC Council member Anita Bonds having decided to depart the DC Democratic State Committee after 12 years as chair, party members elected fresh leaders Sept. 20 to head the group. The task before new party officers is tall.…

With Anita Bonds stepping aside as chair of the DC Democratic State Committee, a three-way race has ensued for leadership of the struggling local party. Committee members will cast votes Thursday evening to decide the winner among the…

The DC Board of Elections disqualified independent at-large DC Council hopeful S. Kathryn Allen from the November ballot late Monday night, finding that her nominating petitions contained widespread forgery and too few valid signatures.…

When the DC Board of Education ran the city’s school system, the contests sometimes offered a prelude to future elections, with the positions offering a springboard to the DC Council or the mayor’s office for politicians such as Marion…

In December of 2016, as Democrats across the country were still reeling from President Donald Trump’s election the month before, progressives in the District of Columbia got some welcome news. The DC Council passed legislation guaranteeing…

About a third of the District’s 296 advisory neighborhood commission seats have contested races, based on the candidate list released by the DC Board of Elections last week after the petition deadline for the Nov. 6 election. The number is…

The District’s Democrats gave incumbents dominating victories Tuesday even as voters in Tuesday’s low-turnout primary election ignored the advice of elected officials by passing Initiative 77 to eliminate the separate minimum wage for…

Following an underdog victory against Jim Graham four years ago, Ward 1 DC Council member Brianne Nadeau has faced criticism from her opponents for not prioritizing constituent services. Graham, who died last June, drew longtime support…

Anita Bonds is getting it from all sides. Ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections, the at-large DC Council member and District-politics stalwart is facing criticism from two challengers, Marcus Goodwin and Jeremiah Lowery,…

A year ago, no one would have predicted there was enough anger in Ward 6 for an insurgency against DC Council member Charles Allen — not even Lisa Hunter, Allen’s opponent in the Democratic primary. Hunter jumped into the race because,…

With education foremost on many voters’ minds, residents packed into the Thurgood Marshall Center for a recent candidates forum focusing on the issue. The event organizer, the Coalition for D.C. Public Schools and Communities (C4DC),…

The District’s representative to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing something she has seldom seen in the 14 elections after her initial hard-fought win: an opponent in the Democratic…

Voters on Tuesday will decide the fate of Initiative 77, which proposes to gradually eliminate the city’s tipped minimum wage and close the existing gap between tipped and non-tipped workers. The initiative ended up on the DC primary ballot…

Phil Mendelson isn’t interested in hearing his opponent claim to be the progressive candidate in the race. Walking out of a debate where DC Council Chair Mendelson and challenger Ed Lazere traded barbs over education scandals, Mendelson…