As we come to the end of a difficult and embarrassing year for District politics, let us resist the urge to paint all corruption with the same broad strokes.
WASHINGTON — A former D.C. Council chairman who violated campaign finance laws avoided most of his possible jail time but will have to spend hun...
WASHINGTON — A former D.C. Council chairman should spend six days in jail for lying on bank loan applications and for committing a misdemeanor c...
WASHINGTON -- Since Kwame Brown (D) resigned from office last month amid a chaotic scandal, the former District of Columbia Council chairman has been ...
WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) confirmed news that he's planning a mayoral run, something that's been talked ...
The ban on direct corporate donations to candidates won't by itself end corruption, but it's seen by reformers as an important first step.
Woodward and Bernstein took us on a walk down memory lane this past weekend with their 40 year retrospective on the idea that Richard Nixon was even worse than we thought, if that's possible.
WASHINGTON -- In a day full of personal attacks, low blows and other political theatrics, it took the tearful pleas for civility by a member of the Di...
WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the District of Columbia Council pleaded guilty Friday to lying about his income on bank loan applications, ...
To raise D.C. out of the current morass of disgrace to the honored place that the nation's capital should hold in national and global consciousness, we must have a fresh, vital, ethical new generation of leadership for the city.
WASHINGTON -- Phil Mendelson (D) appears to have wrangled enough support from his colleagues on the District of Columbia Council to clinch the legisla...
WASHINGTON -- Now that Kwame Brown (D) has stepped down from the chairmanship of the District of Columbia Council following being charged with one cou...
WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Council Chairman Kwame Brown (D), who has been under investigation by federal prosecutors for months, was charged w...
Editor's Note: The Washington Post reported midday Wednesday that D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is expected to be charged with fraud. This is a de...
WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Council Chairman Kwame Brown, who has been under investigation by federal prosecutors for alleged campaign finance ...
WASHINGTON -- The 9th Annual Blue Jeans Ball raised some $450,000 for the Capital Area Food Bank. And no one had to wear a tuxedo. More than 700 ca...
The StatehoodDC campaign seeks to educate the nation that those residing in the capital city of the free world are not yet free.
WASHINGTON -- Back in October, when an early Saturday snowstorm took many in the nation's capital by surprise, some in District of Columbia Mayor Vinc...
By: Sayre Quevedo Kwame Brown, Chairman of Washington DC’s City Council, is the youngest chairman in the history of the city. As a result,...
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is right to want every pupil in the D.C. Public Schools to aspire to the highest possible levels of learning. However, the specifics of his new bill need some work.
WASHINGTON -- Should District of Columbia public and charter high school students be required to apply for college or trade school in order to graduat...
WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Council Chairman Kwame Brown (D) has sent a letter to Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry (D) rebuking the former may...
Political power is not just the ability to make law, but also the real influence that elected leaders have on their communities. Children learn a lot about moral choices by observing the decisions of influential adults and public figures.
WASHINGTON -- Federal officials living in the nation's capital usually don't engage much with local District of Columbia politics. But U.S. Attorney G...
WASHINGTON -- First, it was just four Walmarts. Now, the nation's capital will be getting six D.C. outposts of the world's largest retailer. The Bento...
