An ode to the lowest level of city government.
DCist Senior Editor Martin Austermuhle on the contention that the District must earn voting rights and self-determination.
In the wake of last Monday’s deadly shootings at Virgina Tech, many local college students are discussing campus security and the implications for their schools. In addition to holding a slew of vigils and showing support for their peers in Blacksburg, collegians wonder how such a tragedy could occur on American campuses and what university officials are doing to protect their students. American University administrators are taking a second look at their emergency response plan,…
Today’s Opinion on the flat tax in D.C. was written by Jonathon Schuster. On March 9 the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on DC held hearings to discuss Senator Sam Brownback’s (R-KS) idea of using the District as a testing ground for a national flat tax. Forget for the moment that Brownback is far from representative of the majority of District residents with his often extremist right wing statements (such as comparing abortions in America to the…
Today’s Opinion comes to us from proud biker and DCist’s tech guru, Tom Lee. You’ve probably never met me, but odds are that you have a grudge against me anyway. It’s not that I’m a particularly objectionable guy. I’m generally pretty friendly, and if you and I were to run into each other I’m sure we could make some pleasant smalltalk about music or movies or the Redskins. But eventually my horrible secret would be…
We’ll blame it on the weather. Opinionist is taking the day off from airing our gripes and concerns about D.C. and enjoying this early taste of spring. It’s just so darn nice outside that we can’t be bothered to blog about the city’s parking problems or Metro Access woes. At any rate, don’t let us stop you if you’ve got something to say. DCist is accepting submissions for Opinion pieces. We encourage thoughtful, critical, constructive…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author, who, in this case, is Charles Gray. If you have an Opinion to share, please email us. It looks like we are going to get a smoking ban in the District. Let me start by saying that, as a smoker, I actually don’t particularly care about the effects of the smoking ban. I smoke outside…
This morning, we took a quick stroll past the Lebanese Embassy on 28th Street NW just to see if anything was going on, considering the two weeks of protests following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the resignation of the pro-Syrian government and the calls from the opposition that Syria remove its troops from the country. Jefferson Morley, in yesterday’s World Opinion roundup, has quite a bit more of the recent developments. Really,…
If you get a few moments during the day, do yourself a favor and read Jefferson Morley’s cover story in the Post Magazine if you didn’t catch it this past weekend. Any longtime DCist reader knows about our love for local history and Morley’s well-written and well-researched article, “The Snow Riot” — which looks at Washington’s forgotten first race riot — is a great read. The piece details the capital’s 1835 race riot and gives…