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Editorial: Community Involvement Is a Win-Win
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Editorial: On Mother’s Day: Call Your Mom, Practice Empathy
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Opinion: How I Discovered the Meaning of Memorial Day
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Editorial: DDOT’s Problem with the Public
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Editorial: Take a Breath and Honor Our Planet
Opinion: The Coming D.C. Financial Crisis
October 3, 2022
•Editor’s note: From time to time The Georgetowner selects to run guest columns on issues of concern to our readers. We have decided to run this opinion piece by Jack […]
Not on a Whim, Woman Catholic Priest Celebrates Momentous Georgetown Mass
September 22, 2022
•The Roman Catholic Church wears its age well — and yet, after 2,000 years, is still developing new features, still growing into its body. Perhaps, for world religions, 2,000 years […]
Are We Normalizing Crime?
September 14, 2022
•As we began to write this editorial, we noticed lots of commentary on the growing persistence of crime, close to home and across the nation. We noted the tragic loss […]
Closing Pools Before Labor Day a Travesty
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It was an exceptionally hot August and early September this summer as families and residents tried to enjoy the last of the vacation and home days before heading back to […]
Opinion: A Sliver of Hope on the Climate Crisis
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Everywhere we look we see the effects of the climate crisis – whether we wish to or not. Here in the suburbs of northern Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C., […]
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
September 8, 2022
•With a simple message fastened to the Buckingham Palace gate stating that she died peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, the world was told that a sense of stability for […]
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022): An Appreciation
September 1, 2022
•With the Aug. 30 death at age 91 of Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022) — the last leader of the Soviet Union before its dissolution at the end of the Cold War […]
Editorial: Reading, ’Riting, ’Rithmetic… and Religion
August 17, 2022
•The other day I was talking to a neighbor whose daughter, a rising high-school junior, was beginning to plan her college visits. Suddenly, it’s become very complicated, she told me. […]
Non-competes: Ensuring the District Remains a Competitive Place to Do Business
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At the Council, I have a responsibility to legislate in a way that will protect District residents, ensure all who are reading the law have a clear sense of their […]
Remembering David McCullough
August 11, 2022
•It is hard to say goodbye to my friend David McCullough, who died Aug. 7 at the age of 89. We met in 1989 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, at the centennial commemoration […]