The Barras Report Blog

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

By Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler , The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA January 15, 2025 WE keep running in circles when it comes to...

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

RAW emotions consumed me as I reflected on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s accounts of her meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and her...

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

NOT long after her adopted twins came to live with her in Freeport, Texas, Melanie Oldham saw their health start to decline. Both...

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...

SOME DC government officials, private-sector education researchers and advocates with whom I spoke during the past week seemed unfazed...

DC residents and their political leaders are understandably anxious about Donald Trump’s second presidential term. They are also...

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...

ON April 3, members of the DC Council took turns questioning Mayor Muriel Bowser about her proposed fiscal year 2025 budget, which she...

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

By Glynda C. Carr AS we approach this critical election season, a remarkable story unfolds across America. Young Black women are not...

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White Sr., who was recently indicted and arraigned on a federal felony charge that includes a claim that he...

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

DC Councilmember Trayon White Sr. is a danger to all DC residents — not just those in Ward 8.  That’s the only conclusion, in my opinion,...

ON Monday, June 10, Kenyan McDuffie, the DC Council Chair Tempore, had his chief of staff, Derron Parks, convene a meeting outside of the...

The DC Council gave preliminary approval this week to a $21 billion Fiscal Year 2025 Budget and Financial Plan that included dozens of...

May 31, 2024 The Honorable Phil Mendelson Chairman Council of the District of Columbia 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004...

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...