Budget Madness in DC, Part2
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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
- May 8, 2022
- 6 min
The hijacking of the DC Office of the Attorney General
ANY District of Columbia resident or leader who cares about the city’s political independence and the ability of its legislature to...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 8, 2022
- 7 min
Mayor Muriel Bowser fights to lead — for a third time
IT'S difficult to imagine any mayor’s second term like the one with which Muriel Bowser has grappled. It began in 2019, filled with...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 19, 2022
- 8 min
DC Attorney General Karl Racine: Crossing the Line
DC Attorney General Karl Racine may have crossed an ethical line when he endorsed Brian Schwalb as his successor. One of four candidates...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 31, 2022
- 22 min
Children at risk: DC’s child welfare system trends toward destruction and death
The final installment of an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 18, 2022
- 26 min
Children at risk: Foster care in DC is no safe haven
Part 4 of an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism THE child who...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 8, 2022
- 31 min
Children at risk: City’s child fatality reviews don’t prevent future deaths as intended
The DC Line conducted a six-month investigation, funded by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism, in pursuit of the...
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jonetta rose barras
- Dec 20, 2021
- 6 min
Is Kenyan McDuffie DC’s next top lawyer?
Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie is in the proverbial political catbird seat. He is the legislature’s chair pro tempore; chair of...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 14, 2021
- 7 min
Is the fight at the DC arts commission about race or the hustle?
DURING the recent kickoff for his mayoral campaign, Ward 8 DC Council member Trayon White led his supporters in a chant: “We are going to...
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jonetta rose barras
- Aug 15, 2021
- 8 min
Low-income DC Condo Owners Fear They Are the Next Surfside. Do Government Officials Care?
“When I go to sleep at night, I kind of sleep with one eye open, so I’m never really sleeping, because I don’t want [the] building to...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jul 7, 2021
- 6 min
Is Integrity Missing Among Some DC Advocates?
IT’S disappointing that some DC advocates will use almost any means, including deliberate manipulation of the public and withholding of...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jul 1, 2021
- 5 min
OPINION: WAYNE’S OPERATIC SPIN TAKE #3
THIS may not be the third article chronicling the ill-advised maneuvers of Wayne Turnage, the District of Columbia’s deputy mayor for...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 31, 2021
- 5 min
WAYNE’S OPERATIC SPIN
As a backdrop to the budget deliberations expected to begin this week in the DC Council, a fight has ensued between several legislators,...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 22, 2021
- 5 min
MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE, Part 2
THE bullet crashed her chest, escaping through her back. It was so sudden and swift, Reagan Grimes didn’t fully realized she was shot....
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jonetta rose barras
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
DISPARITY OR DELIBERATE VIOLATION OF DC LAW—Judge for Yourself
It’s commendable that DC elected officials are concerned about the survival of local small businesses in DC’s post-pandemic reality. It’s...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 13, 2021
- 6 min
Enabling the Unaccountable in DC
When Black comedian Flip Wilson performed some outlandish, wholly funny routine on his television show in the 1970s, he ordinarily...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 20, 2021
- 6 min
A MEDITATION ON CRIME AND VIOLENCE
TWO seemingly ordinary people—one black, the other white--collided on the streets of Minneapolis in May 2020. It was in the middle of a...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 2, 2021
- 7 min
Changing the role of police, and confirming a new police chief in DC
A confluence of timely reports, including Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety by the DC Police reform Commission and pending...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 2, 2021
- 5 min
THE PANDEMIC: Mind Awakening and Altering, Part 1
WE have been forced to walk each day with death for the past year—so many lives snatched by COVID-19, the disease caused by the...
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