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...

DONALD Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just how...

RATEPAYERS beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export...

DURING  the first presidential candidates’ debate in 2024, hoping to challenge Joe Biden’s handling of immigration along the southern...

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...

Was she someone's grandmother? How had she fallen into such dire straits?

The challenge in Ward 8 right now is comparable, in my mind, to the one confronting millions of mostly rural citizens nationally, who...

“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...

Imagine the neighborhood your family has lived in for more than 150 years being turned into a deteriorating flood zone. Now imagine the...

Former DC Council Candidate Eric Goulet Calls on the U.S. Attorney to Investigate Potential Crimes Committed by D.C. Councilmember Elissa...

THE DC Office of Campaign Finance (OCF) decision in its investigation of At-large DC Council member Elissa Silverman’s actions during the...

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...