ANC 6D Resolution Requests SW COVID-19 Testing Site
The below resolution was voted on and passed at the Oct. 13th meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6D:
To The Honorable Mayor Muriel Bowser...
The PENN Building: A Room With A View
On a quiet Friday afternoon, I slipped into the PENN Building (650 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) with my shopping cart. I felt like an intruder,...
Love and Vigilance: Traveling During COVID-19
There’s a lot to learn from New York’s turnaround in the long battle against COVID-19, even in the DC area where our collective resolve...
DC’s Black and Brown Students Face Perilous School Year
Our country is confronting dual cataclysms: one the global pandemic now afflicting millions and one a long-overdue reckoning of the centuries-old scourge of racism....
Opinion: Students Need (Safe) Sports
As the start of the school year approaches, there has been a lot of focus on whether students should go back to school and...
What’s in the DC Budget for Ward 6?
This week the DC Council voted to pass an FY21 budget for the District, setting funding levels that will begin on October 1. With...
Commentary: A Test of Leadership
As a veteran, I was deeply disturbed and angered at the sight of federal law enforcement officials and military forcibly removing peaceful protesters freely...
In Grateful Memory of Lincoln
At Dachau concentration camp, there is a sculpture of a mass of contorted corpses, impaled on barbed wire, with the words NEVER AGAIN below....
Libraries or Newspapers?
The DC Council at the urging of Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) approved an amended version of the FY 2021 Budget that removed the Ad...
What is Initiative 81?
When I proposed Initiative 81, I was motivated by a personal crisis. Entheogenic plants and fungi had helped me overcome crippling postpartum depression. By...
