Charles Allen

Responding last week to a question asked during WAMU’s Politics Hour about her political intentions, Mayor Muriel Bowser declined to indicate definitively whether she will run for a third term: "I usually get into a campaign when I know I…

Last week’s DC Council oversight hearing into the District’s 911 call center — normally a banal annual meeting — instead revealed that the agency is falling short on some critical standards and had failed to give the Washington…

After hours of testimony, DC lawmakers seemed doubtful about city agencies’ reform efforts in the wake of a deadly fire in the Brightwood Park neighborhood. Monday’s DC Council hearing was scheduled after Fox 5 and The Washington Post…

The DC Council unanimously passed emergency legislation earlier this month to patch up weak spots in the District’s "sanctuary city" policies. The new bill forbids officials at the DC Department of Corrections from cooperating with federal…

Don’t expect the DC Council to hold charters to the same transparency and sunshine standards as traditional public schools. That was the unmistakable message I heard telegraphed last week by Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and at-large…

They may have been at each other’s throats earlier this year during an acrimonious budget debate over relocating Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to the Shaw neighborhood. This week, however, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson,…

It’s understandable that some DC residents might feel as if they’ve been cast in a remake of Groundhog Day. In that 1993 film, Bill Murray’s character keeps waking up to the same day, replete with the same remarks and the same behavior by…