Family leave needs level playing field
My business cheered when the D.C. Council passed the Universal Paid Leave Act in December by a strong majority after more than a year of deliberation. We are dismayed the mayor and some council…

District needs better contractor monitoring
I would like to follow up on Tom Snowden’s recent letter to the editor . I applaud the mayor on the prudent spending increases in the latest budget. But how one spends is as important…

Tenley library needs glass roof replaced
On Thursday, April 6, I was in the Tenley-Friendship Library during a heavy rainfall. The library staff had set out two rubber trash cans and three wastepaper baskets to catch the rain leaking into…

Retirement board is financially prudent
This is in response to the Feb. 8 letter to the editor “D.C.’s fiscal health is more complicated.”
Although, as the headline indicates, the letter was focused on the District’s overall fiscal health, there was a…