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CITIZEN JOURNALISM: D.C.'s race for mayor in spotlight

Blogs, neighborhood papers provide play-by-play reports

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

Washington is hardly a one-newspaper town. Yet while its major news organs compete by devoting considerable resources to national and foreign affairs, its other papers and blogs are shining bright lights inside City Hall.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Muslim college backed

Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

One of Egypt's senior Muslim clerics supports the concept of a Muslim college being established in the United States, telling The Washington Times last week that it would help foster better relations between the West and the Muslim world.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: 'Builder' forges schools

Pioneer relishes helping students

Monday, Sept. 21, 2009

Donald L. Hense, chairman of Friendship Public Charter Schools, has been many things to many people, and many of the recipients don't know his name. To Mr. Hense, who calls himself a "serial entrepreneur" and a "builder," that's OK because he has dedicated his life to helping others help themselves.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Sorority sisters claim funds misused

8 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha bring suit

Monday, Aug. 3, 2009

Eight members of a Greek-lettered sorority, whose ranks will include first lady Michelle Obama once she is inducted, claim in a lawsuit that their president and others misused funds on designer clothing and lingerie and failed to get approval from the membership on expenditures.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: The screenwriter's dilemma

Stories about doing good hard to tell compellingly

Sunday, July 5, 2009

"I received my entire musical education in the New York City public school system," composer Michael Kamen, who died in 2003, once said. "I had there my most incredible experience. While we were working on '[Mr.] Holland's Opus' I went back to [the] music and art [room] ... and in the room was a graveyard of musical instruments ... 400 or 500 violins, flutes, trombones, trumpets, oboes, everything piled up to the ceiling. And they were all broken and busted."

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Visually philanthropic

Multimedia projects used to encourage good works

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Meet Michael Guillen: scientist, author, Emmy winner and loving husband and father. He also is a child of God who doesn't talk about coincidences. For him, prayer, divine intervention and the golden rule are the simple facts of life, situated along the straight and narrow, that led him to his newest roles as philanthropist and film producer.

D.C. school chief gives herself an 'F'

Monday, March 16, 2009

Despite lower dropout rates, higher graduation rates and improved standardized test scores, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee gives herself a failing grade on her first 20 months in office.

D.C., charter to restructure Anacostia H.S.

High school failed to meet guidelines set by federal act

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009

D.C. Public Schools and Friendship Charter Schools are joining forces to restructure the troubled Anacostia High School in Southeast. But Anacostia will remain a traditional public school, Ramona Edelin, executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Association, said last week.

Rhee urged to make parents partners

Input seen as crucial in children's education

Friday, Feb. 20, 2009

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has upset the apple cart.