The Barras Report Blog

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...

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...

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...

Oct 21, 20228 min read

DC elected officials claim to care about poor people, but the HUD report says otherwise

DON’T expect me to mince words here. The DC government and, thus, the entire city, particularly low-income residents, have been drowning...

Sep 16, 20215 min read

Mayor Muriel Bower’s Assault Against Her Own Possible Third Term

“THE contract extensions at issue represent an impermissible exercise of authority by the mayor and therefore may not be deemed...

May 31, 20215 min read

WAYNE’S OPERATIC SPIN

As a backdrop to the budget deliberations expected to begin this week in the DC Council, a fight has ensued between several legislators,...

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