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Washington, D.C. — its council, its rents, its streets, and the federal hand always resting on the scale.
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The city can pass a law. Congress can still veto it.
National Guard troops are set to stay deployed in D.C. through the rest of the year, and Congress retains the power to…
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A Ward 8 council member’s bribery trial starts next week, and prosecutors say he’s already tampering with it
Trayon White Sr. was indicted in 2024 on a single bribery count, removed from the Council by his colleagues, and reelected anyway.…
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D.C.’s rent caps are set for 2026. A ballot fight over freezing them at zero is just getting started.
The Rental Housing Commission set this year’s allowable increases at 2.1 to 4.1 percent. A proposed ballot initiative would take that number…
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Traffic deaths in D.C. are at a 16-year high. The infrastructure built to prevent that hasn’t kept up.
Fatalities are up more than 60 percent from the same point in 2022, in a city that formally committed to zero traffic…
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The Red Line shutdown is ending. The buses that covered for it are the actual story.
Months of Red Line construction ran on free shuttle buses and dedicated bus lanes. Whether that investment outlives the shutdown that justified…