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After a few extra days of legislative wrangling, the D.C. Council signed off on a budget that now includes about $42 million in tax increases but will not feature a controversial advertising sales tax.

The call in the July 18 editorial “The D.C. Council needs to get real” for the D.C. Council to “wake up to reality” was hardhearted and wrongheaded.

The D.C. Council on Thursday repealed a new and controversial tax on the sale of ads before unanimously approving an $8.5 billion budget for 2021. With the votes, lawmakers closed out a testy and challenging process that saw them grapple —…

The D.C. region is one of the wealthiest in the nation, with the second-highest median income of any metro area. Still, hundreds of thousands of residents don’t consistently have enough to eat, and the coronavirus pandemic is making the…

Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau wasn't invited to the "cool kids' table."

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday signed emergency policing legislation passed by the D.C. Council earlier this month amid mass demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd during police custody in Minneapolis.

Since her swearing-in ceremony late last month, new D.C. lawmaker Brooke Pinto has jumped into important legislative meetings about the District government’s spending plan for next year. She now represents Ward 2 in the seat that 29-year…

Metro expects to bring rail service to 90% of pre-pandemic levels by Aug. 16, but if a new surge of Covid-19 cases should plunge the region into a second wave of shutdowns, the system would likely follow suit, Paul Wiedefeld, general…

Nurses who work at Medstar Washington Hospital Center are demanding new personal protective equipment, saying the hospital continues to provide disinfected masks to reuse.

As Metro service gets ready to ramp up next month, there are concerns about potential crowding in the rail system, as well as current crowding on buses.