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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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...
Time for a bolder affordable housing approach in DC
EARLIER this month, the DC Council begins scrutinizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $17.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 Budget and Financial Plan,...
The District of Columbia's Legislative Purgatory
Judith Sandalow sat inside the square — the virtual infrastructure made ubiquitous by the coronavirus pandemic as we’ve sought to remain...
Money, Money, Money
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn’t formally announced whether she will run for a third term. However, the decisions behind her proposed $17.5...
Don’t Let Senate Republicans Keep Us From Learning the Truth About the Attack on the Capitol
Republicans in the U.S. Senate are a threat to our democracy. Here’s the latest proof: Republicans are using the Senate’s filibuster...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Wishing and Hoping: Can the DCGOP Declare Victory in 2022?
Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....
FOLLOW THAT STORY: Education Malpractice
Imagine going to a physician with a complaint about an ailment you have been experiencing for several weeks. Without examining your...
RACISM AND ITS DEADLY COUSINS
What does it say about our country when we don’t have time to absorb the impact of one mass shooting before news of the next one comes...
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...
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...
DC chief financial officer brings new meaning to ‘When the going gets tough … ’
Talk about inopportune. Here we are in the middle of tax season, the middle of budget season, and the middle of a public health emergency...
DC's Abuse of Women Homeowners
WHEN nine Black women were accepted into DC’s Home Purchase Assistance Program for first-time homebuyers, they believed they were moving...
