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jonetta rose barras: DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie amps up the general election at-large race

jonetta rose barras Jul 19, 2022

“There is a difference between talking loudly and having warm and fuzzy relationships with the press and somebody who gets you-know-what done,” outgoing Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie told me last week during an extended…

Elections

jonetta rose barras: Is Kenyan McDuffie DC’s next top lawyer?

jonetta rose barras Oct 28, 2021

Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie is in the proverbial political catbird seat. He is the legislature’s chair pro tempore; chair of the powerful Committee on Business and Economic Development, holding sway over significant financial…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Is DC Mayor Bowser executing a political feint?

jonetta rose barras Apr 8, 2021

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…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: A government of redundancies

jonetta rose barras Jul 23, 2020

The DC Council Committee on Government Operations, chaired by Ward 4’s Brandon Todd, recently gave preliminary approval to the Racial Equity Achieves Real Change Amendment Act of 2020. The legislation, now known as the REACH Act, was the…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: DC Council ethics and the battle for control

jonetta rose barras Jul 11, 2019

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,…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Mary Cheh as chief nanny and antagonist

jonetta rose barras May 16, 2019

While reprising her role as the DC Council’s nanny-in-chief and attempting to twist the arms of her colleagues to win passage of a so-called soda tax, Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh resorted to an old pattern of behavior: sullying the…

City Paper: Nutritional Programs May Be in Jeopardy Because of a Proposed Soda Tax Hike

Editor May 9, 2019

Councilmembers spar over who has jurisdiction over tax increases.

The Nation: DC’s Leaders Shouldn’t Wait to Prioritize Racial Equity

Editor May 8, 2019

Activists in Washington say the mayor’s proposed budget would worsen disinvestment in black communities.

Afro-American: Public Hearings Held to Close Racial Disparities in the District

Editor May 3, 2019

Public hearings were held last week at the Wilson Building for the Racial Equity Achieves Results (REAR) Amendment Act of 2019, a bill which would try to close the racial disparity gap in the District.

Next City: D.C. May Join List of Cities Increasing Representation in Public Art

Editor Apr 19, 2019

“Why do we have monuments of people who owned slaves?” That’s the question that D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s six-year-old daughter asked him and his wife one day while driving from D.C. into Virginia.

Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie Introduces Legislation to Create a Commission to Review Names of…

Press Release Apr 3, 2019

Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie Introduces Legislation to Create a Commission to Review Names of District Memorials and Places Legislation Creates a Commission to Review Controversial Monuments, Markers, and Symbols, including Statues,…

WAMU: Most Of D.C.’s Statues Are Of White Men. A New Bill Could Add More Women And Locals To The Mix

Editor Apr 2, 2019

In certain parts of D.C., it can feel like there are statues everywhere. Often these statues are of white men on a horse. Or white men holding weapons. Or white men sitting in chairs.

Washington Post: The District may launch a task force to review offensive school, street names

Editor Apr 2, 2019

A D.C. lawmaker wants to form a government commission to conduct a sweeping review of symbols, markers and street names across the city that could be considered offensive.

DCist: The City Just Got One Step Closer To Seizing The Wendy’s In The Middle Of Dave Thomas Circle

Editor Mar 20, 2019

Frosty lovers in Northeast D.C. may soon need to go beyond so-called Dave Thomas Circle to get their fix, but neighborhood groups are rejoicing at a particular nugget in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget: $35 million over six years to…

Books

‘We have things to say’: Local teens draw accolades for their novel on police brutality

Andria Moore Mar 6, 2019

As the nation grappled repeatedly with the issue of police brutality, 10 teenage girls participating in a Ward 5 after-school program met weekly from 2015 to 2017 to collaborate on a novel, drawing from their own experiences and…

McDuffie Introduces Bill to Support Small Businesses Impacted by District Infrastructure Projects

Press Release Mar 5, 2019

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Contact: Nolan Treadway Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie Introduces Bill to Support Small Businesses Suffering Financial Distress from District Infrastructure Projects The bill would…

DCist: Councilmember McDuffie Requests Funds To Seize The Wendy’s In The Middle Of ‘Dave Thomas…

Editor Mar 1, 2019

The intersection of Florida Avenue and New York Avenue in NoMa has long bedeviled pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, because of the triangle-shaped plot of land plopped at the center.

Street Sense: Tweaks to Crummell School redevelopment plan trade 32 apartments for 0.16 acres of…

Editor Feb 26, 2019

More than 50 Ivy City residents and other community members gathered at Bethesda Baptist Church on Feb. 11 to hear the latest proposed developments for the historic Crummell School site.

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Why don’t DC officials already know the cause of gun violence?

jonetta rose barras Feb 21, 2019

I asked myself that question when DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie and eight of his colleagues introduced the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention Research Establishment Act of 2019. Were they suffering group confusion or…

District government

Amid upswing in gun violence, McDuffie proposes a center for firearm research in DC

Candace Y.A. Montague Feb 14, 2019

Can research play a major part in gun violence prevention? One DC Council member aims to find out with his latest bill. Ward 5’s Kenyan McDuffie, who chairs the Committee on Business and Economic Development, has introduced legislation…

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District Links: DC selects team for Chevy Chase redevelopment with housing, library and community center; Cedar Hill…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development today announced the selection of Rift Valley Chevy Chase LLC to redevelop the Chevy Chase Civic Site in…

jonetta rose barras: Corrupting ethics and transparency in the DC government

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When it comes to ethics, the DC Council appears to be going from bad to worse: Last year, it trashed local open meeting laws. After unanimously voting in February 2025 to expel Ward 8’s Trayon White…

District Links: Commanders publish first renderings of new roofed stadium on RFK campus; House OKs spending bill with DC…

Jan 15, 2026 16

The Washington Commanders and global design firm HKS this morning released initial conceptual renderings of a new roofed stadium along the Anacostia River to replace the newly demolished RFK Memorial…

Meet RenRiot: A band reshaping DC’s rock landscape one riff at a time

Jan 15, 2026 185

On a recent Friday night, passionate rebellious screams, high-energy drumming and raw guitar riffs echoed outside of O'Shaughnessy's Pub in Alexandria. It was the bar’s Band Nite, themed “Punk in the…

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