While hearing some airplanes flying overhead has long been one of the costs associated with living near the Potomac River in parts of Northwest, wider swaths of the District have been feeling more effects from Reagan National Airport in…

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…

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…

Local officials like to present “green infrastructure” as a win-win solution to stormwater runoff. The term refers to a collection of solutions including permeable pavement and vegetated areas that, if done properly, can provide significant environmental benefits.
When rainwater hits…

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…

It’s all too easy for a struggling business to spiral downhill. Declining revenues force painful cost cuts that make the product less desirable, which further drives customers away — and the cycle continues.
There’s reason for concern that the Washington…

A lot is going on.
First, the fun stuff.
Opening day for the Nationals is Monday against the Miami Marlins.
Your Notebook took in a Nats spring training game last week in West Palm Beach, checking in with local fans at the…

Ward 4 D.C. Council member Brandon Todd has a political mess on his hands. Somebody’s been bad at accounting for tens of thousands of dollars in a campaign report.
A new audit from the Office of Campaign Finance is withering….

We live in a dangerous world.
It’s worth saying again.
We live in a dangerous world.
But, really, a spit of a sidewalk is too dangerous to keep open to the public?
We’re referring to the sidewalk on the south side of the…

Last month, American University elected its first black female Student Government president — junior Taylor Dumpson. Her victory received little attention at first; this outcome is hardly novel in 2017.
But then came a ghastly response: Someone, not yet identified,…