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Ben Jealous
- May 15
- 2 min
Winning the Fights That Matter
I thought last week about the psalm that describes how the most exalted pays closest attention to the smallest, the most in need among...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 13
- 5 min
Budget Madness in DC, Part2
SOME people have become accustomed to vote trading in national and local politics. There is the belief that such transactions lead to...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 13
- 7 min
BUDGET MADNESS IN DC, PART 1
THE $19.7 billion Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and Financial Plan submitted earlier this year by Mayor Muriel Bowser demonstrates her...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 10
- 7 min
Time for an overdue talk among DC officials about the government’s core mission
OVER the past several weeks, the political and public policy rhetoric in the District has seemed like a five-alarm fire — the heat and...
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Ben Jealous
- Apr 10
- 3 min
Ensuring Our Right to Invest in the Next Generation’s Future
IF a public opinion poll done last month is right, more than half of you won’t know what I mean by the initials “ESG,” and fewer than one...
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Ben Jealous
- Mar 20
- 3 min
Make Banks Make Good on Their Pledge to End Fossil Fuel Financing
CONOCOPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from President Joe Biden's administration last week to proceed with its...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 17
- 8 min
Can DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson handle the coming collisions over policy, politics and money?
WARD 3 State Board of Education member Eric Goulet publicly asked on Twitter whether DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has become...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 17
- 7 min
The Radical Historian Among Us
LONG before Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) shouted the phrase “Black Power” in 1966; before James Brown, sans his famous processed...
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Ben Jealous
- Feb 2
- 3 min
Taking on the Symptom that is Gun Violence and the Disease Behind It
WE'VE had more mass shootings this year than we’ve had days this year. It’s sad to imagine that Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park will join...
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Ben Jealous
- Jan 28
- 3 min
Disposing of Division, Not People and Places
AS an organizer who’s spent much of my life fighting for civil rights and access to the ballot box, I reflect on the work and words of...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 28
- 7 min
A City Traumatized By Crime
I am on the telephone listening to my granddaughter discuss the week’s events. Normally she is a confident, self-assured, sassy high...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 24, 2022
- 6 min
Transform this!
AFTER winning her historic third term as mayor of the nation’s capital and chief executive officer of the DC government, Muriel Bowser...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 24, 2022
- 8 min
A new beginning in DC or the same old thing?
WHEW! Raise your hand if, like me, you are happy to see the end of DC’s 2022 election season. Don’t get too comfortable, though. There...
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Ben Jealous
- Nov 24, 2022
- 3 min
Voters Make an Important Down Payment on Democracy’s Future
A lot of good news came out of this month’s elections—and enough bad news to remind us that we can never let our guard down when freedom...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
Press Release (Nov. 1, 2022)
Former DC Council Candidate Eric Goulet Calls on the U.S. Attorney to Investigate Potential Crimes Committed by D.C. Councilmember Elissa...
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jonetta rose barras
- Oct 30, 2022
- 12 min
Building a Political Syndicate and Violating Local Campaign Laws
THE DC Office of Campaign Finance (OCF) decision in its investigation of At-large DC Council member Elissa Silverman’s actions during the...
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Ben Jealous
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
Georgia Is Ground Zero for Democracy
By Ben Jealous LIKE so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind. As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black...
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jonetta rose barras
- Oct 21, 2022
- 7 min
A hot at-large DC Council race gets hotter
DC voters began receiving their ballots for the November general election this week. The contests for mayor, DC Council chair and council...
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