Editorial & Opinion: Time to Think of Creative Solutions to Prevent Homicide
• January 10, 2024

As the new year rolled in, readers of the Washington Post were greeted by this front-page story: “2023 Was District’s Deadliest Year in More Than Two Decades: The City Recorded […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed
• January 4, 2024

As many have noticed, cannabis “gifting shops” and dispensaries have been scrambling energetically – and often furtively – to set up shop behind Georgetown storefronts, to the delight of marijuana […]

ANC Tackles Parks, Public Spaces, Crime, Leaf Collection 
• November 6, 2023

She tried. She really did. Gwen Lohse, chair of ANC 2E, had timed each item of her lengthy November ANC meeting – held Oct. 29, all remote – to a reasonable time […]

Crime: City and Its Council Need to Get Real  
• August 16, 2023

On Aug. 7, Ward 8 Council member Trayon White made headlines as he suggested the use of the D.C. National Guard to combat the city’s unrelenting lawlessness and violence.  “The […]

Citizens Meet with Police and Brooke Pinto on Crime
• August 14, 2023

Considering recent criminal activity on the 3300 block of N Street, the Public Safety Committee of the Citizens Association of Georgetown and neighbors met with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second […]

Profs & Pints DC: The Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels
• April 24, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels,” with Dan Schneider, who researches the fight against drug trafficking and teaches courses on transnational crime as an assistant […]

Q&A Cafe: Jack Evans Made One Thing Perfectly Clear
• April 6, 2023

The monthly Q&A Cafe lunch program at the George Town Club is produced and directed by, and features, longtime CBS News producer Carol Joynt, who interviews top newsmakers and those-in-the-know […]

Profs & Pints DC: The Capital Punishment Debate
• March 22, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Capital Punishment Debate,” a look the movement to abolish the death penalty and new calls to keep it in place, with Jason D. Fabrikant, […]

Editorial: Doing the Safety Dance
• March 8, 2023

The Criminal Code Brouhaha Is an Opportunity to Do Better    The District’s new criminal code bill is in limbo, after D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson pulled the legislation out of […]

Crime: MPD Chief Cites 2022 Crime-Fighting Gains While Denouncing Gun Violence
• January 3, 2023

On the first day of 2023, MPD Chief Robert Contee released a “Message from the Chief” lauding his department’s crime-fighting efforts last year while acknowledging the District continues to be […]