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HOUSE REPUBLICANS have hit a new low in their disregard for the District and the right of its residents to govern themselves. Even as they proclaim themselves champions of limited government and personal freedom, they passed a spending plan…

There’s no sugarcoating what is taking place on Capitol Hill. By embedding anti-home-rule riders in the fiscal 2019 D.C. appropriations bill, House and Senate Republicans are thumbing their noses at citizens of the District and their…

Still feeling patriotic after the Fourth? Want to express your civic engagement by carving out your own electoral fief in the District? Here's how you can do that. As of Monday, registered D.C. voters who have lived in their neighborhoods…

Vince Gray is eyeing a run for his old job as D.C. mayor. Having passed on the Democratic primary, Gray’s only option at this point is to run as an independent. Despite what would be an uphill fight in the overwhelmingly Democratic city,…

Since her election four years ago, D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman has emerged as a leading progressive voice in the District, most prominently co-authoring legislation to require paid family leave for private-sector workers in the…

As scores of young people crowded into a hearing room in the Wilson Building on Wednesday, D.C. Council members saw the future of D.C. politics. “There are multiple future council members and a future mayor in this room,” said D.C. Council…

Monty Hoffman's graying hair was slicked back, and he was dressed in a Canali shirt and blue sport coat as he gestured out the window of his makeshift office inside the former Channel Inn on a warm, sunny day last September. With the…

In conversations across the District, and particularly in the neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River where I work, there is a very real and heartfelt anxiety that gentrification and the displacement that accompanies it are sweeping…

Hardly a week goes by that you don’t read or hear about affordable housing challenges afflicting American cities in general and the District in particular. What are the causes of this persistent, seemingly intractable problem? Three…

Initiative 77, a DC ballot measure that means big changes for the restaurant industry, has passed. Gradually over the next seven years, employers will go from paying servers, bartenders, and other tipped workers at least $3.33 an hour to…

It’s hard to imagine a sleepier election than the District’s mayoral primary. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s nomination for the Democratic party appears all but certain as the incumbent faces two challengers with little name recognition and limited…

Election season can bring out a candidate’s true colors. Especially when the color is green. Yet it was somehow surprising to learn that Karl Racine, who is running unopposed for a second term as D.C.’s first elected Attorney General, was…

Candidates for the District of Columbia’s City Council chairman and at-large member spent the evening of May 30 answering tough questions about criminal justice reform. One candidate called for the ouster of Metropolitan Police Chief Peter…

In the fall of 1998, I walked through the doors of Walker-Jones Education Campus in Shaw as a new teacher and recent Howard University graduate. The challenges were daunting for D.C. Public Schools — and for me. Schools were in such…

Mayoral control should not mean unchecked control over data and information.

The long and little-known story of how neighbors and developers used a plan for a park to push a thriving African-American community out of Fort Reno.

The District is a city that tries to do everything — all at once. Graded on effort alone, D.C. would get an A. Look no further than the $14.5 billion budget approved by the D.C. Council this week. The government is setting out to do it all:…

The developer’s banner stretching across construction fencing promises beautiful apartments, with floor-to-ceiling windows, trees and flower beds, a little pool of blue water. “Is that a little pool for us?” a 9-year-old boy who passes the…

Less than a year ago, Anthony Anderson told me he’d been fired from his job as a burrito maker at Chipotle. “They said I was too slow,” he told me, embarrassed, not meeting my eyes. No biggie. Turns out he got another gig. This weekend, the…