Muriel Bowser

What began in 1986 as a group of drag queens making a spontaneous drunken sprint between a bar and a steakhouse has become one of the District's most iconic community events. And starting this year, the annual 17th Street High Heel Race is…

WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Friday that the District will no longer charge sales tax on feminine hygiene products effective as of Monday, Oct. 1. In her tweet posted Friday afternoon, she wrote, “Because feminine hygiene…

On a recent afternoon, almost a year after launching her long-shot campaign for the D.C. Council, Dionne Reeder found herself in a downtown restaurant facing a flurry of questions from the District’s most powerful Democrat. Mayor Muriel E.…

On Tuesday, D.C. officials will ceremonially début a new family homeless shelter at 5004 D St. SE in Marshall Heights as part of the plan to close and replace the derelict D.C. General shelter. The soon-to-open facility will house 35…

Two large developments planned in D.C. could get a significant financial boost with the approval of two pieces of recently introduced legislation that would provide the projects with more than $100 million in tax-increment financing.

WASHINGTON -- Mayor Muriel Bowser's office had some big news Tuesday for a major mixed-use development east of the Anacostia River. The office announced that it introduced a bill to provide tax increment financing for the Reunion Square…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2, 2018 CONTACT:  LaToya Foster (EOM) Chanda Washington (DMPED) Mayor Bowser Announces First-Ever Tax Increment Financing Proposal for Ward 8 Development Legislation Introduced by the Mayor Will Create a…

The mayor of the non-state of nonstates and the non-state’s legislature are positioned for a tug-of-war over public schooling, and guess who’s caught in middle? Why children and parents, of course. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council …

The head of the District’s Latino-affairs office shared photos of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser at a Latino parade that deleted images of protesters who showed up to slam the mayor’s immigration policies. Hardly a month goes by without Bowser (D)…

The skies were clear and blue in the winter sunlight in early December 2016, as Mayor Muriel Bowser plunged a gleaming shovel into a pile of sand and declared the ground broken at McMillan Sand Filtration Facility. It was a perfect day for…

Suppose you are mayor of Washington and your public school system has just gone through a series of scandals that you fear could turn families away. Then suppose you have a chance to fill a top education spot — deputy mayor for education —…