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…

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….

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…

As if our current-day national politics and world tensions are not enough (point to most anywhere on earth), along comes the Vietnam War, reprised, reconsidered, roaring back in an 18-hour PBS series. It reminds us that this war is…

Since 2010, D.C. has added more than 9,000 units of affordable housing in the city. Nearly all of it depends upon subsidies achieved through federal tax breaks.
Meanwhile, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has separately budgeted $100 million in each of…

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a rock band — and its ruling could help legally settle the fight over the name “Redskins.”
An Asian group calling itself “The Slants” had sought for years to trademark…

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan set off on a two-day trade mission to Canada on Monday to promote tourism, trade and diplomatic relations.
We don’t know about trade and diplomatic relations, but there…

New Ward 8 D.C. Council member Trayon White — like any new member — is still feeling his way around the ins and outs of how the council operates.
But White was in his element Monday on the issue of…

What are we to make of Ballou?
Radio partners WAMU and NPR delivered a devastating look at the backstory behind Ballou High School’s most recent, glowing graduation statistics.
Simply stated, too many students at the Southeast school graduated with suspect grades…

Try Googling the late civil rights icon Julian Bond.
In a life full of activism, historic achievement and honors, none of the pictures show him relaxing quietly on a bench.
But this week a bench took center stage.
“He liked the idea…