D.C.’s Police Chief Pamela Smith Resigns
• December 15, 2025

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith entered the position during a nearly 30-year high in homicides in the District. With crime now down, Smith is leaving her job as police […]

Bowser’s Quotes on Home Rule  
• September 10, 2025

Staying the course and answering her critics, Mayor Muriel Bowser has said: “Our North Star is protecting Home Rule and D.C.’s autonomy. D.C. residents, we are going to continue to […]

ANC 2E: Crime, Galas, DC Water and GU Projects  
• September 8, 2025

The eyes of the world were on Washington, D.C., the past four weeks as President Trump deployed National Guard troops from several states to help quell what he called “out […]

Federal Intervention: Are We Safer?
• September 2, 2025

News Analysis Welcome to Georgetown … sort of. Members of the National Guard patrolled Georgetown over the weekend for the first time, having previously stayed mostly downtown and along the […]

Editorial: Washington, D.T.? 
• August 12, 2025

And you thought August would be mellow. A political earthquake hit Washington, D.C., Aug. 11. President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is deploying the National Guard and federalizing the […]

Trump Federalizes D.C. Police, Deploys National Guard
• August 11, 2025

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is deploying the National Guard and federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department to crack down on crime. The unprecedented actions — detailed at the […]

ANC 2E: Budget, Curfews, Flex Posts, G.U. Boathouse
• July 7, 2025

The July Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting held on June 30 was —as it often is — a treasury of information, much of it deep-dive original sources. There was a sharing […]

ANC Report: Drag on K, Budget Cuts, Parkway Changes, Apero
• May 5, 2025

The “May” meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) was held on April 28 and was a mixed bag of news and notices. Beginning with the Police Report, […]

ANC Report: Christmas Trees, Jelleff Delays, Theft From Autos, Classroom Phone Ban 
• February 10, 2025

“They’ve forgotten us!” the usually cool Commissioner Paul Maysak lamented loudly — half tongue-in-cheek — toward the end of the Feb. 3 meeting of ANC 2E, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission […]

First Meeting of 2025, ANC2E: Bags, Bottles & Big Events
• January 9, 2025

The new year’s meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC2E) turned out to be all virtual on Jan. 6 due to a snowstorm that coated Washington, D.C., with a […]