Office of the Attorney General

Ryan Jones, Brian Schwalb and Bruce Spiva — the three candidates vying to become DC’s second elected attorney general — appear to be reading from the playbook developed by DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie prior to suspending his campaign.…

The DC Board of Elections collaborated in the disenfranchisement of thousands of District voters when it upheld a complaint filed by Bruce Spiva that asserted DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie did not meet the statutory qualifications to…

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…

Perhaps we should have recognized much earlier the large ambitions of Karl Racine. After all, he had been a White House counsel and was one of the first African Americans elected as managing partner of Venable LLP, a top firm in the city.…

DC Attorney General Karl Racine is set to testify Thursday at a U.S. House hearing on misclassification of employees as a form of payroll fraud, the subject of a report released earlier this month by Racine’s office on how the practice…

I had gone downtown mostly to run errands. As I was about to head back to my Brightwood neighborhood, I discovered the two signs just inside the overhang between the escalator to the Metro Center subway station and the exterior side wall…

The District’s Certified Business Enterprise program aims to boost “small and local” DC-based firms seeking government contracts, ensuring local dollars can flow to companies typically led by minorities or women. But Southeast DC…

Thankfully, I hadn’t gone on a sizzling summer Saturday to the Frank A. Reeves Municipal Center at 14th and U streets NW for any respite from the heat. The opinions that were being shared openly or quietly whispered by District residents…

At an unusual public forum Thursday night to discuss whether former DC drug lord Rayful Edmond III deserves a reduced prison sentence, those who came forward to testify included one of Edmond’s cousins and an activist who said his family…

A Congress Heights landlord sparred with attorneys for the District of Columbia in Superior Court this month over whether a judge should drop a requirement that the landlord pay for renovation of a dilapidated apartment complex in…