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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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Haitians deserve America’s help

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) wants you to know something — and, interestingly enough, it has little to do with the political alignment of members voting against the House replacement of Obamacare on Thursday.

May 4, 2017

Putting Metro back on track

Paul Wiedefeld, the man hired to put the D.C., Maryland and Virginia mass transit system back on track, delivered a three-pronged plan Thursday to begin the long arduous process.

April 20, 2017

Opioid use and abuse are the problem

"It's killing people left and right," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan pointed out a couple of months ago, when he outlined his fight against opioids.

April 17, 2017
D.C. Streetcar 2016.03.09 (Ryan M. McDermott/The Washington Times)

D.C. budget needs these 3 things

The opening salvos on D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's fiscal 2018 spending plan were frighteningly tame, considering there's nothing on the chopping block, nothing bolstering parents' cries for school choice and nothing that declares a war on strenuous oversight.

April 6, 2017
On Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged keep in place automatic tax cuts triggered by the city’s recent financial success. “What we did was, we looked at what we needed and what we could invest in this year and in the whole financial plan and what those investments would turn into. And this is where we landed,” she said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Muriel Bowser’s spending blueprint, at first blush

In case you missed it or even care, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser released her fiscal 2018 spending proposal Tuesday, and at first flush her plan is aligns with the city's rosy outlook in recent years.

April 4, 2017

D.C. parking, red-light ticket scam

The facts first: The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would exempt residents from fines on certain traffic tickets, such as those that double for parking tickets, speeding tickets and red-light running tickets. (A breather for sure.)

April 3, 2017

D.C. parking, red-light ticket sham

Hip, hip, hooray! D.C. officials want to give folks who get parking, red-light and speeding tickets a break. (Well, some folks.)

April 3, 2017

School rape is a safety and security issue, stupid

There are so many hot-button issues tied to the investigation of the rape of a 14-year-old girl in a Maryland high school that it's easy to lose sight of the horror of the crime itself.

March 22, 2017

School rape case raises important questions

Much of the heated discussion about America and its immigration laws turns on Hispanics and Muslims, and people with Hispanic-sounding names and Muslim-sounding names.

March 20, 2017
A portion of President Donald Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on the Department of Education, and released by the Office of Management and Budget, is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

3 things: Trump’s education spending plan

Did President Trump really take a "meat cleaver" to federal education spending, as American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said? Or did Mr. Trump, after becoming president, consider the hand that states, localities and parents had been dealt and deliver a blueprint that returns the power and authority to them?

March 17, 2017