Editorial: Where’s Our Billion?  
• September 10, 2025

Where’s our billion dollars? We’re not talking about Powerball. We’re talking about a Congressional power play that stripped $1 billion from the D.C. budget. The president and the Senate approved […]

Editorial: Trump v. Smithson  
• September 9, 2025

A pitched battle between ideology and science took place 100 years ago.  The town of Dayton, with a population of 2,000 or so in 1925, hosted a court case brought […]

Editorial: Putting Labor Back in Labor Day 
• August 13, 2025

This year, Labor Day falls on Sept. 1. The first Monday in September hasn’t been the first day of the month since 2014.  Among other things, this earliest-possible timing means […]

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 […]

Editorial: BTS, Not Just a K-Pop Group  
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In a chaotic and uncertain world, there’s at least one thing each fall we can count on: the smell of newly sharpened pencils, just-opened markers and freshly ironed clothes. Back-to-school season […]

Let’s Get to Yes: Bring the Commanders Home
• July 31, 2025

We’re on the one-yard line … almost there. Signs read, “Now or never” and “Don’t fumble the future.” The vote is tomorrow. Mayor Bowser and the District Council have a […]

Editorial: Budget Tweaks and Woes 
• July 16, 2025

The time has come to get this budget done. The Council of the District of Columbia got that started on July 14 — after some tweaks — with a first […]

Editorial: DOGE, Confusion, Not Cost-Efficiency   
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Washington, D.C., is no stranger to the changes that accompany a new presidential administration. Yet the Trump administration’s creation and implementation of the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, […]

Opinion: This Pandemic Holdover Is Ruining Historic Georgetown
• July 7, 2025

The Georgetowner received this letter, along with an op-ed published June 30 in the Washington Post. The op-ed is by Elizabeth Miller and Stefanie Scott of the Georgetown Coalition for Public […]

Editorial: Curiouser and Curiouser 
• June 10, 2025

“Are their heads off?” shouted the Queen.   “Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!” the soldiers shouted in reply.  “That’s right!” shouted the Queen.  Here in Don-derland, the […]