The Barras Report Blog

Five months after DC voters approved the “Make All Votes Count DC” ballot initiative that could bring semi-open primaries and the...

“I was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and part of my life was lived during segregation. My family protected us. They also educated...

DONALD Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just how...

By Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler , The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA January 15, 2025 WE keep running in circles when it comes to...

RAW emotions consumed me as I reflected on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s accounts of her meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and her...

DURING  the first presidential candidates’ debate in 2024, hoping to challenge Joe Biden’s handling of immigration along the southern...

CALL it the “Saga of Trayon White Sr.”  The DC Council has been considering since August how it should punish the Ward 8 legislator for...

SOME DC government officials, private-sector education researchers and advocates with whom I spoke during the past week seemed unfazed...

DC residents and their political leaders are understandably anxious about Donald Trump’s second presidential term. They are also...

Remarkable. That’s the word used frequently by DC residents and leaders with whom I spoke in recent weeks to describe Mary Levy, a public...

ON April 3, members of the DC Council took turns questioning Mayor Muriel Bowser about her proposed fiscal year 2025 budget, which she...

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White Sr., who was recently indicted and arraigned on a federal felony charge that includes a claim that he...

The challenge in Ward 8 right now is comparable, in my mind, to the one confronting millions of mostly rural citizens nationally, who...

ON Monday, June 10, Kenyan McDuffie, the DC Council Chair Tempore, had his chief of staff, Derron Parks, convene a meeting outside of the...

The DC Council gave preliminary approval this week to a $21 billion Fiscal Year 2025 Budget and Financial Plan that included dozens of...

For some Ward 7 residents and political observers the general answer to that question appears to be yes. After all, there is a batch of...

“The current political landscape has witnessed a growing influence of national and local interest groups, often overshadowing the voices...

Editor's note: The Supreme Court 6-3 ruling made public on June 29 striking down affirmative action programs and policies at two...

When I learned of recent funding cuts and spending prohibitions for key District programs and services preliminarily imposed by House...

AN African-American male, born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, I am the ninth generation of African descendants in America. Five...