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For Denise Rolark Barnes, the publisher of The Washington Informer, operating the newspaper is family business. When asked if she ever thought she’d be where she is today, she said, “Let’s put it this way — yes, I did. Did I want to be…

In this week’s State of the District Address, Mayor Muriel Bowser managed to squeeze in multiple mentions of President Donald Trump and most of the Democrats looking to challenge him in 2020. She also referenced many of the myriad issues…

The deployment of several new fire engines over the past month and a half is helping to address some of the long-standing problems with the city’s fleet of vehicles and equipment, but a recent DC Council oversight hearing made clear that…

DC Public Schools plans to resolve an impending over-enrollment problem at School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens by increasing funding and creating three new classrooms, school system representatives said at a recent community meeting.…

Facing a group of outraged education activists, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson this week criticized the mayor for submitting emergency legislation to extend a private school’s lease of a District-owned site many want converted into a…

Yesim Sayin Taylor never thought she’d work in DC government. Admittedly, she didn’t know much about it. “I just thought it was this crazy, dysfunctional place,” she said. An economist, Taylor came to the United States — and the…

About 100 people celebrated last week’s opening of an art exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery full of revealing photographs of daily life in DC’s neighborhoods — but instead of wine at the reception, there were Capri Suns. …

The DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, argues in a new report that the District needs to double its yearly investment in the Housing Production Trust Fund in order to account for rising construction costs and the…

In so many ways Pat McGuire feels her career has been a series of “well-managed coincidences.” A lawyer by training, she never aspired to be a college president. But, this year, McGuire is celebrating her 30th year as president of Trinity…

In a new report Northwest parents are calling for the creation of at least four new public schools to address severe overcrowding at Woodrow Wilson High School and many of its feeder schools. After spending two years studying solutions…

As the nation grappled repeatedly with the issue of police brutality, 10 teenage girls participating in a Ward 5 after-school program met weekly from 2015 to 2017 to collaborate on a novel, drawing from their own experiences and…

A new day center for individuals experiencing homelessness has opened its doors on at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in the heart of downtown DC. At a Feb. 25 ribbon-cutting ceremony, DC Department of Human Services director Laura…