The Barras Report Blog

SOME people have become accustomed to vote trading in national and local politics. There is the belief that such transactions lead to...

THE $19.7 billion Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and Financial Plan submitted earlier this year by Mayor Muriel Bowser demonstrates her...

OVER the past several weeks, the political and public policy rhetoric in the District has seemed like a five-alarm fire — the heat and...

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...

CONOCOPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from President Joe Biden's administration last week to proceed with its...

WARD 3 State Board of Education member Eric Goulet publicly asked on Twitter whether DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has become...

LONG before Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) shouted the phrase “Black Power” in 1966; before James Brown, sans his famous processed...

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...

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...

I am on the telephone listening to my granddaughter discuss the week’s events. Normally she is a confident, self-assured, sassy high...

AFTER winning her historic third term as mayor of the nation’s capital and chief executive officer of the DC government, Muriel Bowser...

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...

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...

Former DC Council Candidate Eric Goulet Calls on the U.S. Attorney to Investigate Potential Crimes Committed by D.C. Councilmember Elissa...

THE DC Office of Campaign Finance (OCF) decision in its investigation of At-large DC Council member Elissa Silverman’s actions during the...

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...

DC voters began receiving their ballots for the November general election this week. The contests for mayor, DC Council chair and council...

DON’T expect me to mince words here. The DC government and, thus, the entire city, particularly low-income residents, have been drowning...

IF YOU DON’T WIN A DC CONTRACT, START A CITIZEN PROTEST THAT surely must be the thinking of leaders at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield...