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Commissioner Shameka Hayes represents ANC7F08, advocating on behalf of 1,800 residents at the jail and the nearby Harriet Tubman women’s shelter.

Gray’s retirement marks the exit of one of the central political figures of the past three decades and blows the Ward 7 primary wide open.

Politicos are speculating that Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray won't run again next year. Who could jump into the race?

Leonard Bishop is the second ANC to represent the people held in the D.C. Jail, where he also works as a mentor to younger men in the facility.

A spate of shootings on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.'s Ward 7 left two people dead, another person injured and residents outraged.

Community members rallied for safer streets in Northeast, following the killing of a woman near a gas station on Easter Sunday. 

In the summer of 2020, several councilmembers led an effort to defund the streetcar extension to the Benning Road Metro Station in Ward 7. In doing so, they made several statements on the record about the project and Ward 7. Many of them centering around who would benefit from a streetcar extension, and how. Michael Havlin argues that there thousands of residents who could benefit from the project and developers who want in on the action.

A man died and two women and a man were hurt in a shooting Saturday evening on Minnesota Avenue NE, police say.