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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.

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Donald Trump, don’t do it

Don't do it, Donald Trump. Don't do it. Don't give the D.C. government control of RFK Stadium land and the D.C. Armory land, and please don't give the city the adjacent park land.

August 8, 2017

NAACP stumbles on education

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bit off its mission and game, advocating as it is that public charter schools be as tightly bound to school bureaucracies and regulations as teachers and school employees are to unions.

August 7, 2017
In this photo made Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, new housing under construction in St. Louis. The development is receiving federal low-income housing tax credits. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

No-account affordable housing accountability

As members of Congress retreat for the summer to reach out and grab the (greasy) palms of those who put them in office, tax reform has been penciled onto the calendar.

August 3, 2017

Education the Jack Kent Cooke way

Whether Jack Kent Cooke would have handled contract talks with Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins the way Dan Snyder did is inconsequential at this juncture.

July 17, 2017

Metro has money, governance on its mind

The board of the regional mass transit agency known as Metro is finally getting around to what matters, now that safety and maintenance concerns are being routinely tending to -- reforming itself from within and ginning up ways to generate new revenue streams without opening the floodgates to the naming rights maze.

July 13, 2017

Opioid epidemic hits Southwest Virginia hard

Welcome to Martinsville, Virginia -- NASCAR charter member and home of the Martinsville Speedway paper clip turn that clipped Jeff Gordon, and which Hall of Famer Wendell Scott called his hometown raceway.

July 12, 2017
Grave marker for Mammy Kate, who rescued her master, Stephen Heard after the British had set his execution.

Women Declaration Independence Revolutionary War

When it comes men and America's independence, many of the ancestors' names and storied lives can easily roll off the tongue. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were two of our first three presidents, and died as frenemies just hours apart on July 4, 1826. Maryland's Charles Carroll, the wealthiest man in the colonies, was a Roman Catholic and a staunch believer of freedom of religion, also signed the Declaration of Independence.

July 3, 2017

Larry Hogan puts schools probe on right track

Maryland's probe into whether Prince George's County administrators, teachers and others changed students' grades and credits to boost graduation rates is no small undertaking.

June 26, 2017
Photojournalist Shay Horse said he was pepper-sprayed while covering protests at the Jan. 21 presidential inauguration, even though his camera identified him as a journalist. (Sarah Nelson / The Washington Times)

Is ACLU lawsuit against D.C. cops a red herring?

"An officer told us to drop our pants," Shay Horse said. "An officer went down the row telling each of us not to flinch as he grabbed our balls and yanked on them, and then stuck his finger up each of our anuses and wiggled it around. I felt like they were using molestation and rape as punishment."

June 22, 2017