Many D.C. renters need help. But can the city just take their word for it?
Mayor Muriel Bowser wants budget cuts to a program running on a perverse incentive.
By Colbert I. KingD.C. has a truancy problem. The solutions have to include the home.
Risks accumulate when children are not in school where they belong.
By Colbert I. KingAlexandria residents don’t want Ted Leonsis’s arena
This proposed arena would threaten public safety and use tax dollars to make a billionaire ever richer.
Letters to the EditorD.C.’s recall petitions only distract us from real problems
Council member Brianne K. Nadeau has been part of the solution.
Letters to the EditorScooters may save the planet at the cost of their riders
Please, scooter riders, don’t kill yourselves.
Letters to the EditorD.C. Council should restore DNA collection to crime bill
DNA evidence can help prosecutors solve crimes.
Letters to the EditorGetting ghost guns out of Maryland
We must act as a state to overcome the senseless loss of life.
Letters to the EditorCultivating an audience for opera
Creating a new audience takes patience over an extended period.
Letters to the EditorMaryland needs more transparency in education funding
Residents deserve to see with greater detail how their tax dollars are being spent.
Letters to the EditorA contract Maryland should keep
Even without a grant, one option for defendants is better.
Letters to the EditorWe pay now for renewable energy, or we pay more later
Never has the aphorism “penny-wise and pound-foolish” been more apt.
Letters to the EditorD.C. Council members are facing recall for a reason
It’s time for Brianne Nadeau and others on the council to stop playing social theorist and actually enforce the existing laws.
Letters to the EditorSynthetic opioids are claiming lives at an alarming rate
Education is an important part of stemming the overdose epidemic.
Letters to the EditorWhere does the buck stop for housing in disrepair?
Where were the city’s licensing officials?
Letters to the EditorU Street development is welcomed by many neighbors
It is not enough for shadows and aesthetics to be the only reason to stop this much-needed support to our city.
Letters to the EditorDoes the D.C. Council deserve the blame for crime?
Recall efforts and the mayor are telling the same story. Is it the whole story?
By Colbert I. KingMaryland would be prudent to pause wind developments
Given the financial commitments involved, Maryland must ensure that ratepayer interests are protected.
Letters to the EditorA community can build Oxon Hill Elementary’s library
How do schools in low-income areas in our state fund sorely needed programs when budgets are already sunk with needing to ensure that hungry kids get lunch?
Letters to the EditorThe child-care dilemma in Mount Pleasant
D.C. is already facing a dire shortage of preschool and child-care facilities, especially bilingual and publicly subsidized options.
Letters to the EditorThe fight for fair admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School
Educational equity is under attack across the United States.
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