DC Council

With education foremost on many voters’ minds, residents packed into the Thurgood Marshall Center for a recent candidates forum focusing on the issue. The event organizer, the Coalition for D.C. Public Schools and Communities (C4DC),…

Phil Mendelson isn’t interested in hearing his opponent claim to be the progressive candidate in the race. Walking out of a debate where DC Council Chair Mendelson and challenger Ed Lazere traded barbs over education scandals, Mendelson…

At-large DC Council member Anita Bonds certainly has her critics as she runs for re-election this year. She’s drawn two young and energetic primary challengers, real estate associate Marcus Goodwin and progressive activist Jeremiah Lowery.…

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, he was an early champion of affordable housing programs known as community land trusts. Now a DC Council candidate wants to emulate Sanders’ program in the nation’s capital.…

As he campaigns for re-election this summer, Phil Mendelson is telling the story of the Anacostia properties. The DC Council chairman had a protracted dispute last year with Mayor Muriel Bowser, a fellow Democrat, over the fate of four…

Ed Lazere still isn’t satisfied. The longtime executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute knows the DC Council increased support for affordable housing this year — even investing $15.6 million more than Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed…