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As officials tackle budgetary setbacks in constructing a new 5th Ward school, a group of 37 families from the 5th and 2nd Wards demanded transparency and fiscal responsibility from the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education in an open letter sent Monday evening. District 65 has been planning to build a new neighborhood school...

A new 314-page report, commissioned by outgoing Chief Robert Contee, provides a roadmap for the next MPD chief.

Media Credit: Lydia Embry | Photographer Majority-Black Wards 4, 5, 7 and 8 notched the highest rates of COVID-19 incidence in D.C. yet have the lowest numbers of vaccinated people, a disparity caused by inadequate and differential access to vaccines. The area encompassing GW has logged one of the highest vaccination rates in the District while recording the second-lowest number of positive cases of any ward, according to city data last week. The data reveal that the majority of initial vaccin...

Washington City Paper Key Takeaways From the Council’s Roundtable on D.C.’s Vaccination Rollout The D.C. Council holds one of the few oversight roundtables on the District’s direct response to the coronavirus pandemic. Get our free newsletter Success! Youre on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldnt process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… Get our free newsletter Success! See y...

Community advocates troubleshoot language barriers and voter confusion in North Akron Doug Livingston, Akron Beacon Journal © Jeff Lange, Akron Beacon Journal North Hill resident Ajino Wah voted in a presidential election in November for the first time since becoming a citizen in 2011. Saw Ajino was a boy when he fled Burma for the Thailand border. Ethnic minorities like him have fought seven decades for the government to recognize them as a people in their own right. "We ...

Combati combative, maybe not if he could get their cooperation. what you have is after more than 20 years, you truly have a new mayor in town who is intent on doing things his way, not necessarily anyone elses way. >> as i mentioned, he got 55% of the vote from your perspective, were people voting for rahm emanuel for his ideas, his concrete ideas how to solve the issues you just named or possibly the association with the very popular administration, at least when you look at the demographics of...