Charles Allen

Lawmakers and transportation planners are floating short- and long-term fixes for dangerous roads

Drivers struck and killed a cycling activist and a pedestrian over Easter weekend.

The latest round of deaths on D.C. roads is prompting a renewed push for safety changes from the D.C. Council.

When Rachel Maisler planned her first memorial ride—to honor Jeff Long, a 36-year-old cyclist who was killed by the driver of a truck making a right-hand turn last year—she sought out Dave Salovesh.

LAST MONTH, CHARLES ALLEN, a member of the Washington, DC Council, introduced the Public School Transparency Amendment Act of 2019, which would extend the same sunshine laws applied to traditional public schools to publicly funded charter…

THE DISTRICT’S charter school sector has been largely untouched as charter school opponents across the country have waged an increasingly relentless campaign against them. That is mainly due to the enormous popularity of the schools that…

“This is not exactly a cutting-edge idea,” says Councilmember Charles Allen.

Public charter schools in D.C. have recently come under scrutiny for what many see as a lack of transparency. Unlike traditional public schools, charters aren’t required to make salaries, records, or vendor contracts under $100,000 public,…

It’s not every day that a police chief publicly scolds lawmakers who oversee his department. But in January, and again last month, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham unceremoniously rebuked two D.C. council members who had the unmitigated…

D.C. is debating when to hold its primary for the 2020 presidential contest. Right now, the District is slated to go in late June, last in the country.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse reported in January that more than 130 people in the United States die every day due to an opioid overdose. Washington, D.C., ranks third in the country with the highest rates of overdose deaths,…

A battle of wills is brewing between Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen and Mayor Muriel Bowser.

D.C. lawmakers Tuesday rejected an effort to provide a reprieve to hundreds of students who applied to one of the city’s most selective public high schools but were disqualified because of a mistake by city officials.

There’s so much that goes into building a new house, superyacht or sports stadium that the average taxpayer can’t even imagine.