The Barras Report Blog

Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie is in the proverbial political catbird seat. He is the legislature’s chair pro tempore; chair of...

I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom. And how we can preserve it. Our freedom is threatened. We all need to be paying...

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...

WHEN Mayor Muriel Bowser issued her recent order declaring a “Health Care Resources Emergency,” she tore a page straight from former...

FOR the past year, Mayor Muriel Bowser and her Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage have presented a master class in...

“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...

IT’S disappointing that some DC advocates will use almost any means, including deliberate manipulation of the public and withholding of...

THIS may not be the third article chronicling the ill-advised maneuvers of Wayne Turnage, the District of Columbia’s deputy mayor for...

EARLIER this month, the DC Council begins scrutinizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $17.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 Budget and Financial Plan,...

Judith Sandalow sat inside the square — the virtual infrastructure made ubiquitous by the coronavirus pandemic as we’ve sought to remain...

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn’t formally announced whether she will run for a third term. However, the decisions behind her proposed $17.5...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate are a threat to our democracy. Here’s the latest proof: Republicans are using the Senate’s filibuster...

THE bullet crashed her chest, escaping through her back. It was so sudden and swift, Reagan Grimes didn’t fully realized she was shot....

It’s commendable that DC elected officials are concerned about the survival of local small businesses in DC’s post-pandemic reality. It’s...

When Black comedian Flip Wilson performed some outlandish, wholly funny routine on his television show in the 1970s, he ordinarily...

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...

Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....

Imagine going to a physician with a complaint about an ailment you have been experiencing for several weeks. Without examining your...

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...

A confluence of timely reports, including Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety by the DC Police reform Commission and pending...