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WASHINGTON – An effort to establish a Vietnam War education center on the National Mall was abandoned Friday after 17 years of planning and $23 million in donations already spent. The board of directors of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund…

It’s been eleven years since the D.C. Council approved a historic transfer of power. Lawmakers gave then-Mayor Adrian Fenty control over the state superintendent’s office and the troubled 55,000-student school system. Now, some members of…

District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is going all out with her effort to take down D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) at the polls in November. It’s not going to be a pretty thing to watch. But is the mayor pouncing on…

When anything goes wrong in a city, policymakers all too often just want to move black people around, asserted Mindy Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at the New School, to an audience at a 2015 conference on equitable development in the…

In 2010, the District passed legislation mandating standards for physical education in schools. Unfortunately, many D.C. schools have failed to meet those standards because of time and space constraints, and the mistaken notion that time…

Right around this time last year, we first got to know Anthony* as a charismatic second grader who really liked to tell tales. Tall ones. One of the stories he liked to tell was about a shark in his bathtub, which included what the shark…

You could still smell the evidence Thursday morning of what happens when fire alarms do not work. Residents of a seniors housing complex on the edge of the Capitol Hill-Navy Yard neighborhoods learned that lesson Wednesday, when the upper…

On Thursday afternoon, nearly 24 hours after the fire began at the Arthur Capper Senior Housing complex (900 Fifth St. SE), a strong smell of smoke still hung in the air. Fire hoses lay limp around the building’s perimeter and blue sky…

In a contentious hearing on Tuesday, four D.C. councilmembers pressed the mayor’s education deputy and the Urban Institute’s education policy director to not undermine the legislative branch as it works to create a research collaborative…

A Romanian woman pleaded guilty Thursday in a cyber attack that took control of two-thirds of D.C. police surveillance cameras days before President Trump’s presidential inauguration in January 2017.

This Friday, 28 new mini parks will be added to the District. PARK(ing) Day, an annual, global event started in San Francisco in 2005, transforms parking spaces around the District into free mini public parks for one day.

The call that crackled through the Marine Barracks’ radio system Wednesday wasn’t a cry for help. It was a warning. But Capt. Trey Gregory didn’t hear it that way. He followed the scream of fire engines about a third of a mile to the Arthur…

When D.C. resident Benjamín Ordoñez was arrested for allegedly stealing $200 and five gold rings out of a bag in a hotel lobby in late August, he could have expected to be charged and quickly released pending a trial — like most people…