Who’s lined up to run in the 2022 primaries?
Nominating petitions for DC’s June 21 primary election won’t be available until Jan. 28, according to the DC Board of Elections calendar. In the meantime, prospective candidates have begun filing with the DC Office of Campaign Finance or,…
Can the mayor deliver on her call for equitable distribution of 12,000 new affordable housing units…
When the District government began planning the construction of a six-story homeless shelter on a publicly owned lot next to a police station in Cleveland Park, some neighbors had concerns. The density of the proposed building, they…
From Howard to the White House? DC campus astir over Kamala Harris
On the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Kamala Harris announced in a TV appearance that she was running for president in 2020. Her next stop was her alma mater: Howard University.
Harris, the junior U.S. senator from California,…
Nearly 4 years after initial presentation, ‘Lady Bird’ project in AU Park still struggling to take…
A developer’s plan to build 219 residential units and new retail on the site of a long-vacant supermarket in American University Park is still nowhere close to groundbreaking, stymied by fierce resistance from some neighbors ever since its…
jonetta rose barras: time to rescue traditional public schools east of the river
The Ward 7 Education Council gathered last week to discuss DC Council member Charles Allen’s Public School Transparency Amendment Act 2019. As written, the proposed legislation would mandate public charter schools’ adherence to the same…
jonetta rose barras: Was the DC Council really talking about education?
“This is all about politics,” DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore and Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie said repeatedly last week. He and his colleagues were engaged in a nearly two-hour debate about whether to relocate Benjamin Banneker…
A Connecticut Avenue apartment complex shows effects of a legal loophole and cracks in city housing…
In recent months, one Connecticut Avenue apartment building has become a focal point for criticism of the city’s subsidized housing programs, with problems reaching the attention of the police and DC Council and spawning debates over how…
Careless employee floods DC’s crime lab, soaking four floors and backing up critical wastewater…
A critical wastewater system backed up and flooded four floors of DC’s $215 million forensic sciences laboratory in Southwest DC after a careless employee left a faucet running, The DC Line has learned.
The incident — which had not been…
As DDOT studies options for Palisades Trolley Trail, questions arise over what’s most suitable
What’s now a grassy footpath along the Potomac River from Foxhall Road to Galena Place NW along the former Glen Echo trolley route could become a full-fledged pedestrian and bike trail connecting Georgetown and the Palisades, depending on…
The DC Lineup for the spring: Learn about world cultures, chocolate, the environment and more
Spring 2019 has finally arrived in the District after a long, stormy winter. For some local residents, it’s the return of baseball to Nationals Park that marked the change in seasons. Others see the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin —…
Groups pursue community engagement after Anacostia River Pool study documents the idea’s feasibility
A new study concludes that a swimming facility in the Anacostia River is feasible, suggesting that community interest should drive the project forward.
The DC Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) collaborated with the Anacostia…
Officials cut ribbon at renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library
Hundreds of local residents, officials, activists and onlookers crammed into the lobby and second-floor overhang of the renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library on Saturday, awaiting a ribbon-cutting nearly two years in the making.…
Long-vacant Truxton Circle school may become community center, Peace Corps museum
Running across a vacant or blighted building in DC isn’t uncommon, much to the chagrin of residents. In May 2016, Greater Greater Washington put the “official count” of vacant and blighted buildings in the city at approximately 1,200, but…
District Links: Trump threatens to federalize MPD again unless DC cooperates on immigration…
President Donald Trump is threatening to declare a new national emergency and once again federalize DC's Metropolitan Police Department unless Mayor Muriel Bowser allows officers to fully cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs…
District Links: House may vote next week on four bills to remake DC criminal justice laws; how Trump…
Four of the DC-related bills advanced earlier this week by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are positioned for a vote on the House floor as soon as next week.
jonetta rose barras: The hot mess of democracy in DC
Truth be told, DC home rule has been a hot mess since Congress approved it in December 1973. Residents may have acquired the right to elect a mayor, city council and advisory neighborhood commissioners. However, the DC Home Rule Act as…
District Links: House panel advances bills to alter DC criminal justice laws, amend home rule…
At the conclusion of a daylong markup session, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted last night almost exclusively along party lines to advance 13 bills that would amend or repeal several DC criminal justice laws and…
District Links: House panel voting today on GOP bills blasted by DC officials as infringing on home…
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is in the midst of marking up a series of bills to repeal and alter multiple DC criminal justice laws — with sometimes heated debate falling along party lines, aside from consensus on…
District Links: Norton speaks out ahead of committee markup on DC-related GOP bills; Owolewa,…
Ahead of tomorrow morning's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform meeting to mark up 14 DC-related bills, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she intends to speak on all of them — the bulk of which would repeal or alter local…
District Links: Councilmembers warn of ‘unprecedented attack’ on DC autonomy ahead of…
In conjunction with President Donald Trump's focus on crime and public safety in DC, the GOP-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has scheduled a meeting Wednesday to consider more than a dozen DC-related bills…
District Links: Congress expected to let Trump’s DC emergency lapse without voting on…
In the wake of Mayor Muriel Bowser's order laying out continued cooperation and coordination with federal law enforcement agencies, GOP leaders in Congress reportedly don't plan to schedule a vote on extending the federalization of DC's…
District Links: AG Schwalb files lawsuit to halt National Guard deployment in DC; House GOP bills…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed suit today in federal court in an effort to halt the ongoing National Guard deployment in the District, which he characterized as "not only unnecessary and unwanted" but also "dangerous and harmful."…
District Links: Bowser frames new mayor’s order as a way to ‘exit the emergency’…
A day after issuing a mayor's order that outlines an ongoing framework for requesting and using federal resources to enhance public safety in DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser blasted suggestions that in doing so she was "welcoming" a continuation…
District Links: Bowser’s stance on federal surge draws criticism from local coalition, praise…
A day after President Donald Trump praised Mayor Muriel Bowser and declared that her cooperation with federal officials is boosting her local popularity, a coalition of 100-plus progressive organizations, churches and unions is calling on…
District Links: AG Bondi cites ‘productive meeting’ with Bowser over crime-fighting…
A day after President Donald Trump ordered temporary federal control over the Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of National Guard troops in response to disputed claims of "out-of-control crime" in DC, various local leaders are…
District Links: Senate’s GOP majority approves Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for DC; Park…
The U.S. Senate voted Saturday evening along party lines to confirm President Donald Trump's nomination of former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to serve as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
District Links: DC Council advances RFK redevelopment deal in 9-3 vote; MPD establishes enhanced…
The DC Council voted 9-3 this afternoon in favor of initial approval of a revised deal with the Washington Commanders for mixed-use redevelopment of the RFK Stadium campus — the result of lawmakers' negotiations in recent weeks that…
jonetta rose barras: DC Councilmember Robert White winds up humming to the mayor’s affordable…
Earlier this week, moments before the DC Council began debating its massive $22 billion Fiscal Year 2026 Budget and Financial Plan, members took their first vote on comprehensive housing legislation known as the “Rebalancing Expectations…
Council posts RFK bill as talks continue on ‘housing accountability and labor matters’;…
The DC Council posted text today around noon of the revised RFK campus development legislation proposed by Chair Phil Mendelson, but further revisions are expected ahead of tomorrow's votes on the bill amid ongoing talks with the…
District Links: DC Council hears from Commanders, Bowser on RFK stadium deal after yesterday’s…
After receiving testimony late into the night from hundreds of public witnesses yesterday, the DC Council's two-day hearing on the RFK campus redevelopment continues today with testimony from Mayor Muriel Bowser and Washington Commanders…
District Links: Council approves FY 2026 budget package after split vote on tipped wages; GOP bill…
The DC Council yesterday voted 10-2 to approve legislation underlying the District's fiscal year 2026 budget, but did so only after a series of closely divided votes on multiple amendments to both the Budget Support Act and the Local…
District Links: DC Council debates FY 2026 budget amendments ahead of final action later today;…
The DC Council is voting today on a flurry of proposed amendments on contentious matters related to the District's fiscal year 2026 budget — including an attempted compromise over the tipped minimum wage being phased out under Initiative…
District Links: Mendelson’s revised RFK deal draws pushback from legislators seeking further…
The revised RFK stadium deal outlined yesterday by DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson is drawing pushback from several legislators, who say they're looking for further modifications before they'd be willing to vote next Friday in favor of…