Washington’s Anacostia Coordinating Council (ACC) held a meeting Tuesday with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser in attendance. While the mayor discussed her administration’s many accomplishments in Anacostia, violent crimes committed by juveniles were at the top of the community’s mind. Mayor Muriel Bowser told the residents that juveniles have to be held accountable for acts of violence,…

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, lamented the state of crime in the nation’s capital amid House Republican oversight. Bowser testified before the House Oversight Committee on May 16 that the status quo in crime in the District of Columbia is unacceptable. “No one can be satisfied with increasing crime trends in any category,” she…

The D.C. Metro train system, WMATA (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority), just announced its plan to spend an additional $40 million to install newly designed fare gates at all of their stations, making it more difficult to evade fares and curb revenue loss. The installation of the new gates, which were tested last year at…

With the Biden administration’s announcement that it will end the COVID-19 emergency status across the federal workforce and the nation by May 11, the District of Columbia is also trying to return to a prepandemic economy. Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging President Joe Biden to do more to reinvigorate Washington’s economy, including requiring a unified return-to-work…

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democrat to openly express support for a Republican-led effort to rescind a contentious Washington, D.C., crime law—a code that had been vetoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser in a move subsequently overruled by D.C.’s City Council. The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA), which…

The U.S. House of Representatives on July 13 voted to adopt an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that hands command of the capital city’s National Guard over to the mayor of Washington, D.C. The measure (pdf) was approved in a mainly party-line vote of 218–209 to be added to the House version of the National Defense Authorization…

Russia is threatening to invade Ukraine, and has already been building up its military along the border. A Russian lawmaker is stating that a war may be necessary, and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken is warning of a “severe response” if the threats are carried through. As this happens, the United States has begun supplying…