The Barras Report Blog

Facing the dire effects of a resolution to continue funding of the federal government approved by the Republican-dominated U.S. House of...

During the latest round of performance oversight hearings, some DC Council members have asked advocates and public witnesses to indicate...

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

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...

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...

May 31, 2024 The Honorable Phil Mendelson Chairman Council of the District of Columbia 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004...

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...

“This is going to be the Super Bowl of elections,” predicted Rodney “Red” Grant, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent at-large DC...

As the audience inside the Woman’s National Democratic Club on New Hampshire Avenue NW waited last November for Ward 2 DC Councilmember...

WHEN you have an opponent by the short hairs and they know it, gloating is in poor taste. Proper etiquette for the victor is to “smile,...

THE ritual of signature gathering in the District may seem perpetual — although dozens of candidates for political office, including four...

“CLOSE the racial wealth gap” was the phrase du jour last week at DC Council Chair Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie’s public hearing on the...

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