The Barras Report Blog

Five months after DC voters approved the “Make All Votes Count DC” ballot initiative that could bring semi-open primaries and the...

“I was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and part of my life was lived during segregation. My family protected us. They also educated...

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

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...

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...

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...

Before my friend and activist Tony De Pass died of colon cancer, he often boasted, during frequent and blistering critiques about the...