Editorial: On Mother’s Day: Call Your Mom, Practice Empathy 
• May 8, 2024

Mother’s Day is fast approaching — Sunday, May 12, to be exact. As the inevitable clichés of “Call your mother,” “Send her flowers” and “Take her to brunch” fill the […]

Opinion: How I Discovered the Meaning of Memorial Day
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By Chip Reid    I’m a bit embarrassed to admit it, but for most of my life the only thing special about Memorial Day was the fact that it was a […]

Editorial: DDOT’s Problem with the Public  
• April 10, 2024

D.C. Department of Transportation planners and outreach experts met online with Georgetown residents and business owners on April 3 to discuss 17 recommendations to improve the town’s transportation access and […]

Editorial: Thank You, Council Member Brooke Pinto
• March 13, 2024

Sometimes, it takes a woman.    It is rare that a single person can be pointed to as the catalyst for great progress on an issue as perplexing and emotional as […]

Editorial: New Year’s Resolutions for Georgetown 
• January 10, 2024

As 2024 begins, Georgetown has so much to be thankful for. Sparkling vibrancy has returned to our indoor and outdoor commercial retail, shopping and dining spaces, as our “Business Ins […]

Editorial & Opinion: On Aging and Term Limits 
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It’s an election year – some would say the most important of our times. Attention has turned not only to the quality of our likely 2024 presidential nominees, but to […]

Editorial: Georgetown Old & New, Restaurant & Retail Resilience
• June 14, 2023

If there’s anything Georgetown, the oldest neighborhood in the nation’s capital, knows how to do is re-invent itself, partially every now and then. Today, the resilient town is undergoing a […]

Cars or Bikes: Right on Red?
• October 12, 2022

Picture these scenarios. It’s 8 p.m. You’re stopped at the light at R Street and Wisconsin Avenue, heading east. No cars, bikes or pedestrians are in sight. You turn right […]

Vote ‘No’ on Initiative 82    
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The last item on your ballot is Initiative Measure No. 82 which reads: “District of Columbia Tip Credit Elimination Act of 2021.”   “Under current law, employers of employees classified as […]

Re Dobbs vs. Jackson, Beware the Originalists   
• July 13, 2022

With all their emphasis on the importance of the founders’ intentions in creating the U.S. Constitution as the foundation of federal law, the Constitutional “Originalists” and their enthusiastic cheerleaders might […]