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Deborah Simmons

dsimmons@washingtontimes.com

Deborah Simmons was a senior correspondent who reported on City Hall and wrote about education, culture, sports and family-related topics.

Articles by Deborah Simmons

SIMMONS: Arming school personnel is a cop-out

To arm or disarm? That is a burning question after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., as Vice President Joseph R. Biden prepares to inform President Obama on a way forward.

January 13, 2013
**FILE** Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (The Washington Times)

SIMMONS: Transportation — and how to pay for it — is Topic 1

This week, motor vehicles officials resumed their positions in city hall, Annapolis and Richmond, and whether you're a motorist or bicyclist, mass transit commuter, and whether you hoof it as a pedestrian or work from home, transportation costs are going to be a top priority in 2013 regardless of where you live. To drive home the issue, officials are looking at your wallet.

January 9, 2013
**FILE** Tom Hogue, an Arlington resident who rides his bicycle to and from work every weekday, rides home in the bike lane along 15th Street in the District. "I don't have a problem with anything that brings more people into commuting on a bicycle," he said of National Bike to Work Week, which starts Monday. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

SIMMONS: Walkability, bicycle lanes no answer to gridlock

While D.C. officials continue to press for voting rights in Congress, plans for a walkable city and bike lanes that increasingly make the city less and less friendly to drivers are rightly a look to the future for unclogged roads and enhanced mass-transit networks.

December 30, 2012

SIMMONS: Boys want missing mom home for Christmas

Richard and U'Andre Harris haven't felt their mother's hugs for more than 22 months. She hasn't called home to inquire about them or sent mysterious birthday cards. That's because their mother, Unique Harris, has seemingly vanished without a trace.

December 19, 2012

SIMMONS: In the dark is nowhere to be about crime information

The city is experiencing lower homicide rates, as officials recently announced, and that is truly good news (and let's pray it continues). Gathering, disseminating and sharing accurate daily, weekly, monthly and yearly crime information equals credibility. As things stand now, the department is blocking the public's view.

December 5, 2012
**FILE** Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray tosses the coin before the game as Anacostia High School faces Dunbar High School for the 43nd Annual DCIAA Turkey Bowl Varsity Football Championship at Eastern High School in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

SIMMONS: City chips in for Pop Warner teams’ trip

Monique Brown was excited when I broke the good news to her early Wednesday afternoon that the city would help cover travel and hotel accommodations for three Pop Warner teams' trips to Florida.

November 28, 2012
**FILE** The Washington Monument. (Associated Press)

SIMMONS: 1910 building law for D.C. is height of absurdity today

Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, who chairs the House panel overseeing D.C. affairs, is really onto something that D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and council member Kenyan McDuffie should give considerable attention to.

November 11, 2012