Muriel Bowser

John Falcicchio’s sexual harassment of women under his supervision may not have risen to the level of that perpetrated by the notorious Hollywood producer and filmmaker Harvey Weinstein. However, the serial nature of the abuse performed by…

The doublespeak by DC elected leaders and the massive level of government mismanagement they have allowed or enabled through professional neglect is breathtaking. Nevertheless, they have deflected responsibility and accountability, blaming…

That question seems a legitimate concern, considering the near-illogical demand Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau makes in her proposed emergency legislation expected to be considered Tuesday during the DC Council’s next legislative…

After winning her historic third term as mayor of the nation’s capital and chief executive officer of the DC government, Muriel Bowser started throwing around terms like “transformation.” She is supposed to have a “big ideas” summit Dec. 3…

It’s difficult to imagine any mayor’s second term like the one with which Muriel Bowser has grappled. It began in 2019, filled with promise. One year later, it felt like Pandora was once again among us, unleashing all sorts of hellish…

That’s the question many people were initially asking after The Washington Post released poll results that seemed to be a two-step takedown of incumbent Mayor Muriel Bowser. After all, 74% of the 904 people surveyed between Feb. 2 and Feb.…

At-large DC Council member and newly announced mayoral candidate Robert White is right in asserting that the District government has essentially aged out. “We have been on autopilot for years,” he said during an interview with me last…

Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington last weekend to demand voting rights protections and DC statehood — two efforts many speakers related as being one and the same.  …

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…

Activists marched to the home of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser on a recent Saturday to protest the quality of services provided to homeless people in the District. Protesters singled out the District's Department of Human Services and a…

Soon after Washington Teachers’ Union president Elizabeth Davis learned there was a 3% increase in the per-pupil spending for public education in the proposed fiscal year 2021 budget and financial plan, she called DC Mayor Muriel Bowser at…

As residents continued into week four of social distancing, the DC Council unanimously passed the COVID-19 Response Supplemental Emergency Act of 2020 last week during its first-ever virtual meeting. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the bill…

The initial excitement among some parents and advocates was palpable last week after DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans to increase by 4% per pupil funding for public education in her upcoming 2021 budget plan. Overall spending in 2019…

Nandi Barton faced many closed doors during and after her pregnancy. Her experience was stressful from beginning to end. “I was alone and depressed," she siad. During her pregnancy, Nandi gained over 100 pounds, which led to breathing…

The worry is palpable. At the post office, at the supermarket where I shop, inside my own apartment building — really wherever I went over the weekend — DC residents wanted to talk about President Donald J. Trump’s order to use a…

Some education advocates have started describing Mayor Muriel Bowser and sections of her administration as “Trumpian.” They have joked, for example, that Paul Kihn, the deputy mayor for education, continues to suggest that the 2018 Master…

When DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced earlier this month her intention to place more affordable, low-cost housing in neighborhoods long perceived as havens for the wealthy or the near-wealthy, humanists in the city surely must have smiled.…