By Rebecca Sheir

Neighborhood Commissioners in D.C. are protesting Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposed increase of traffic fees and fines. The hikes are intended as a budget fix for 2011, but critics say the increases unfairly target drivers.

The mayor’s proposed budget would raise fees for...

It’s black, it’s white: It’s a dog, it’s a cat: It’s up, no, it’s down...

This morning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke returns to the Joint Economic Committee to deliver the economic outlook. The inevitable backdrop for the Next Big Thing on the Hill: financial regulatory reform. To r...

By Patrick Madden

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is facing new criticism after disclosing that 266 teachers were fired last year because of a budget miscalculation. Rhee now says the school system has a surplus of money, which she wants to use for pay for the tentative teachers contr...

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Today we have more looks back at what passed and what didn't during the legislative session, Ehrlich criticizes O'Malley over the session, and the state prepares to apply for Race to the Top money.

MEDIATION Nick Sohr at The Daily Record takes a loo...

WASHINGTON (AP) House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told a newspaper that members of Congress could as early as next week vote on a bill that would give D.C. a voting member of Congress.

The Senate passed a bill granting D.C. a vote more than a year ago, but senators added a gun amendment tha...

By Kavitha Cardoza

The results of a Harvard led study in 15 D.C. schools show students respond positively to financial rewards. But with the project's money set to run out next month, some educators are trying to figure out how to sustain momentum.

Brian Betts is the principal of Shaw...

WASHINGTON (AP) The D.C. Public Defender Service is asking a judge to order a broader, more transparent investigation into past convictions involving lab work by FBI agents who later came under criticism. The U.S. attorney's office completed a partial review of the cases in March, following the e...

By Kavitha Cardoza

Several D.C. council members say they are "shocked and appalled" by the school's chancellor’s recent disclosure that there is a $34 million surplus in her budget. Just a few months ago, Michelle Rhee laid off more than 250 teachers, citing a budget shortfall.

Rhee s...

(April 14-May 2) BACK TO THE YEARNING Three Victorian lassies hop into a DeLorean for some mind-bending time travel tonight through May 2 at the Smith Theatre in Columbia, Maryland. "On the Verge; or The Geography of Yearning" follows the trio through the terra incognita of human kind's most rece...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) Federal authorities are looking into the beating of a University of Maryland student by three local police officers.

A video of the March 3 incident in College Park during a rowdy celebration of a basketball victory has led to the suspension of at least one Prince Geo...