DC Councilmember Christina Henderson digging deep and legislating widely — with feeling
ON April 3, members of the DC Council took turns questioning Mayor Muriel Bowser about her proposed fiscal year 2025 budget, which she...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 225 min read
Don't You Love A Farce?
Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White Sr., who was recently indicted and arraigned on a federal felony charge that includes a claim that he...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 178 min read
DC Ward 8's fight for its future
The challenge in Ward 8 right now is comparable, in my mind, to the one confronting millions of mostly rural citizens nationally, who...
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jonetta rose barras
Jun 115 min read
DC's Champions of Small Businesses Prepare to Abandon Small Businesses
ON Monday, June 10, Kenyan McDuffie, the DC Council Chair Tempore, had his chief of staff, Derron Parks, convene a meeting outside of the...
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jonetta rose barras
Jun 98 min read
The short path to ruin in DC
The DC Council gave preliminary approval this week to a $21 billion Fiscal Year 2025 Budget and Financial Plan that included dozens of...
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Jun 65 min read
FanDuel Writes DC Council Chair About Sports Wagering Budget Change
May 31, 2024 The Honorable Phil Mendelson Chairman Council of the District of Columbia 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004...
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jonetta rose barras
May 198 min read
Is generational change coming to Ward 7 via the DC Council race?
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...
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jonetta rose barras
May 198 min read
Who will win the intense political fight to represent Ward 4 on the DC Council?
“The current political landscape has witnessed a growing influence of national and local interest groups, often overshadowing the voices...
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jonetta rose barras
May 57 min read
At-large DC Council candidates Robert White and Rodney Grant are fed up
“This is going to be the Super Bowl of elections,” predicted Rodney “Red” Grant, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent at-large DC...
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jonetta rose barras
May 59 min read
DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto’s sprint to unopposed
As the audience inside the Woman’s National Democratic Club on New Hampshire Avenue NW waited last November for Ward 2 DC Councilmember...
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jonetta rose barras
Apr 78 min read
Winning round one at DC’s Gallery Place
WHEN you have an opponent by the short hairs and they know it, gloating is in poor taste. Proper etiquette for the victor is to “smile,...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 105 min read
Get ready for a wild election season in DC
THE ritual of signature gathering in the District may seem perpetual — although dozens of candidates for political office, including four...
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jonetta rose barras
Jul 1, 20236 min read
Should reparations focus on radical economic 21st century construction?
“CLOSE the racial wealth gap” was the phrase du jour last week at DC Council Chair Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie’s public hearing on the...
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jonetta rose barras
May 13, 20235 min read
Budget Madness in DC, Part2
SOME people have become accustomed to vote trading in national and local politics. There is the belief that such transactions lead to...
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jonetta rose barras
May 13, 20237 min read
BUDGET MADNESS IN DC, PART 1
THE $19.7 billion Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and Financial Plan submitted earlier this year by Mayor Muriel Bowser demonstrates her...
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jonetta rose barras
Apr 10, 20237 min read
Time for an overdue talk among DC officials about the government’s core mission
OVER the past several weeks, the political and public policy rhetoric in the District has seemed like a five-alarm fire — the heat and...
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Jack Evans
Oct 1, 20222 min read
The Coming D.C. Financial Crisis
FISCAL Year 2023 for the District of Columbia started today, October l, 2022. The D.C. Council just passed a $20 billion budget in...
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