Opinion

It’s not just that the U.S. Supreme Court, like the rest of the federal enclave, is the District of Columbia’s backyard, and every time it makes some crappy decision we smell the stink. The 700,000 residents who call the nation’s capital…

She stood at the pay phone booth, near the corner of Missouri Avenue and Georgia  Avenue NW. She had been there for more than 20 minutes, negotiating with the telephone company over restoration of services. That morning when she left her…

One day last week, Metropolitan Police Department officers pulled up in front of Nook’s Barber and Beauty Salon and Little Jewels Child Development Center in the 5200 block of Sheriff Road NE in Deanwood. Immediately, they searched a young…

“It's game time for Republicans in DC, and we're going to suit-up and show-up to deliver the message that one party control of government is not healthy for the District. … Whether you live in Ward 8 or Ward 3, the Republican Party has a…

No one should think the fight over Initiative 77 has ended. It is, in fact, just beginning, according to many opponents, including those with the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, Restaurant Workers of America, Save Our Tips…

A few years ago, I joined forces with a team of people I had dubbed artists/healers to present a daylong program in DC for women who had grown up without the presence and active involvement of their biological fathers in their lives. Many…

DC has seen a dramatic 53 percent rise in homicides in the past year, with 72 homicides recorded in 2018 as of June 15. Not including prior-year tragedies only reclassified this year, homicides are up by around 30 percent or more over this…

WHENEVER a District government agency has been found to be in chaos, unable to perform even its most basic duties, the solution devised by many elected officials, civic leaders and advocates has been to expand the bureaucracy. Case in…

What’s the best way to disrupt divisiveness? As co-founder of Halcyon — an incubator that frequently supports “disruptors” — it’s a question I think about a lot. (Some might say obsessively.) It’s the very question that led Halcyon to…

Forty-five advisory neighborhood commissioners recently asked the DC Board of Elections to expand the period for circulating petitions for the November general election. They requested that ANC candidates be treated the same as candidates…

By Alma Gates Washington, DC, shares its land area with the federal government — or is it the other way around? It doesn’t matter: There’s a finite amount of land available for development within the 10 miles square known as the nation’s…