Opinion: Happy Pride from Olive Street  
• June 9, 2025

By Craig Wilson     I have lived on Olive Street for almost 40 years. Not to be hyperbolic, but it’s been a blessing.   Those 40 years have been shared with my […]

Opinion: Bring the Commanders Home 
• May 14, 2025

Sports are galvanizing our city’s spirit in this moment. You can feel it all across the District: from the crack of the bat when the Nationals hit their first home […]

Editorial: Transparency Is a Necessity 
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“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to […]

Opinion: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do  
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Not even Google can have it all. Shortly before launching their Initial Public Offering in 2004, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, distilled their mission to a […]

Opinion: A Con on Every Corner
• April 17, 2025

Once upon a time, before it was cleaned up and Disney-fied, Times Square was a dirty and slightly menacing place whose tawdry appeal drew mostly tourists, attracted by the grittiness […]

Editorial: Liberation Days? 
• April 9, 2025

Trump’s tariffs landed Wednesday like a thunderclap — globalization, as we knew it, over. Markets rattled. Allies stunned. He really did it.  Then came Saturday. Protests surged across towns and […]

Editorial: The Assault on Our Cultural Assets 
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Whatever downsides there may be to living in and around Washington, D.C., even in our historic, amenity-rich neighborhood of Georgetown — the high cost of living, the tourist crush, the […]

Opinion: Can This Democracy Be Saved?
• April 7, 2025

Like so much about that man, Saturday’s protests were unprecedented. Who would have imagined that this newly installed administration (has it only been 10 weeks?) could provoke such fierce and […]

D.C.’s Billion-Dollar Budget Shortfall: Tough Decisions Ahead  
• March 11, 2025

  Washington, D.C., has long prided itself on fiscal responsibility, strong economic growth and balanced budgets. Over the past two decades, our city has transformed from a jurisdiction on the brink […]

Editorial: Protecting D.C., Bowser Style
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“We have bigger fish to fry,” Mayor Muriel Bowser told the press last week about her intent to dismantle Black Lives Matter Plaza and her quick response to administration officials […]