The Barras Report Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

IT'S difficult to imagine any mayor’s second term like the one with which Muriel Bowser has grappled. It began in 2019, filled with...

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...