The Keegan Theatre’s ‘An Irish Carol’ is good craic and a holiday tradition worth keeping
With the holiday season in full swing, there’s truly no better way to hold onto the Christmas spirit while also supporting local theater in DC than by attending a performance of An Irish Carol at The Keegan Theatre. This beloved production…
District Links: House Dems decry ‘false claims’ against MPD, outgoing chief as political…
Days after the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released an interim staff report critical of outgoing Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith's leadership and the agency's crime reporting, the panel's…
District Links: Senate confirms 3 judges, reducing vacancies on DC Superior Court; workers begin…
The Senate voted 53-43 along party lines last night to approve a lengthy slate of President Donald Trump's nominees, including three new DC Superior Court judges.
jonetta rose barras: Cleanup still needed in DC government aisle three
District residents who have closely followed the recent debate around the start of ranked choice voting (RCV) in the 2026 primary and general elections surely aren’t surprised that the majority of the DC Council voted against legislation…
District Links: Appeals court allows Trump to continue National Guard deployment in DC for now;…
A federal appeals court panel this morning issued a ruling in support of the legality of President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in the District of Columbia, rejecting the reasoning of a lower court that issued a…
District Links: Council rejects delay in ranked choice voting; McDuffie announces council…
The DC Council this afternoon voted down emergency legislation that would have delayed implementation of ranked choice voting until 2027.
District Links: Probes into MPD crime stats blast departing chief for ‘culture of fear’;…
In the wake of media reports about a draft U.S. Department of Justice report faulting DC's departing police chief and the Metropolitan Police Department's crime reporting under her leadership, the House Committee on Oversight and…
District Links: Proposed Metro budget lays out service improvements without fare hikes; draft DOJ…
Metro is looking to boost ridership with improved rail and bus service without any fare increases in the coming year, according to the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget released yesterday Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority…
jonetta rose barras: Political change everywhere and all at once in DC
Former DC at-large Councilmember Bill Lightfoot declared during an interview with me that this moment in the city’s political life is “an opportunity.” Is that an understatement?
After all, Mayor Muriel Bowser and Councilmembers…
District Links: Area leaders warn against expanding military access to DC airspace; House bill seeks…
Regional leaders are echoing objections raised by the National Transportation Safety Board about a provision in the final version of the fiscal year 2026 national defense funding bill that would permit exemptions to restrictions on…
District Links: DC Superior Court nominees back on track for Senate floor vote; three new…
As part of a broad package of 97 presidential nominations, three judicial appointments to the DC Superior Court cleared a key procedural hurdle this afternoon on a party-line 51-47 vote in the Senate.
District Links: DC reaches $1.5M settlement with construction firm over alleged wage theft;…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced a $1.5 million settlement with a construction company to resolve allegations of a wage theft scheme.
Allister Chang: DC needs to craft graduation requirements that help our students navigate an…
“My kids are not being prepared to keep up with a changing world,” a parent told me at a recent PTO meeting. As I’ve talked with families and educators about DC’s Reimagining High School Graduation Requirements initiative, I’ve heard…
District Links: MPD chief stepping down midway through four-year term; Bonds won’t run in…
After two and a half years as chief of DC's Metropolitan Police Department, Pamela Smith is stepping down as of Dec. 31, midway through her four-year term.
District Links: DC reports rise in four-year graduation rate to 78.7%; Appeals Court pauses…
The District reached a graduation rate of 78.7% in the 2024-25 school year — the highest mark since 2011, when DC began using the current methodology for calculating graduation rates and a 2.6 percentage point increase from the prior…
jonetta rose barras: An absence of courage in the DC Council
“Honoring the will of the voters means protecting voter access, voter understanding, and voter confidence — especially for communities that have historically been disenfranchised in our election systems,” Ward 7 DC Councilmember Wendell…
District Links: DC Superior Court nominees part of package winding through Senate; Bowser dedicates…
Three judicial appointments to the vacancy-laden DC Superior Court are part of the slate of presidential nominees under consideration this week for Senate confirmation — a package that is at least temporarily stalled after an insufficient…
District Links: House Oversight Committee aims to undo DC standard on administrative deference;…
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday voted 24-19 along party lines to approve legislation to prohibit DC from requiring that courts and tribunals defer to the mayor's interpretation of statutes and regulations.
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District Links: Council alters DDOT rules criticized as discouraging streateries; all National Guard…
The DC Council this afternoon approved emergency legislation to relax several aspects of the District Department of Transportation's new rules for streateries that took effect yesterday and reduce the newly established fees.
District Links: Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George launches mayoral bid; MPD is closing more…
Janeese Lewis George today launched her mayoral campaign as she aims to become the third Ward 4 councilmember to decamp from DC's legislature to its top executive office.