Be sure to set aside time before or after the game to explore the surrounding Capitol Riverfront and Navy Yard districts: both up-and-coming culture hubs that are chock full of sports bars, beer gardens, and places to stroll along the Anacostia River. Bus tip: Rather than cramming into a...
We need outsiders. Hell. The Tea Party is beginning to talk about keeping Congress folk in their districts and only going to DC for a short period of time to deal with pending legislation, not steeping in the pot of lobby organizations. We don’t need more laws, more politicians who are...
Frankly, the Republican reformists face an extremely steep climb. In the ’80s, the Democratic reform project was helped enormously by the fact that their ideas were eagerly embraced by Democratic politicians of the day from red states and swing districts who were looking for fresh ideas that wou...
President-elect Donald Trump, along with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, is making his first trip Thursday to the nation’s capital after his Election Night victory,meeting Thursday with President Obamaand other top Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader ...
“Education Department officials said that they believe that states and school districts already have the flexibility to purchase firearms using federal education grants.” POLITICO COMMERCE DEPARTURE LOUNGE -- “Commerce’s Ross Loses Key Aide as Trade Disputes Escalate,” by Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jaco...
For the two districts that do not have an incumbent in the mix,The Postendorsed: Tom Moorein District 3. Evan Glassin District 5. It would not be easy to rebut any of the above endorsements. All of the incumbents are indeed worthy of re-election, based on their records. But I am di...
Other school districts have accomplished later high school start times by “flipping” the sequence of pick up, with elementary school children, for example, being switched to the earliest shift. Yet dislike of little children waiting in the morning dark for buses is apparently why rare school ...
Neighborhood boundaries can be derived from Google Maps, business improvement districts, and the Washington Post’s homicide map, but when possible, check with a staff member who’s been barraged with neighborhood-boundary complaints from persnickety residents for two-plus years, i.e. your loyal ...
Under the old arrangement, schools were separated into the three groups. Schools with the smallest enrollments comprised Group A. Each group had four regions composed of districts, each with up to 11 schools. Now schools will be placed into classes, starting with the smallest enrollments in Class...