If you're keeping even the mildest interest in disruptions these days, weeks and months since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, then you probably know that the Get Your Knee Off Our Necks Rally is scheduled for Aug. 28, the 57th anniversary of the peacefully successful March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Published August 3, 2020
Has the possibility that, come election night on Nov. 3, the results might not be immediate? Published July 30, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many U.S. vulnerabilities, from dependence on China for health and medical raw material to such major industries as movies, clothing and household items. Published July 27, 2020
For decades, the playbook for K-12 public education has been titled "One Size Fits All," with academics and elected politicians on the East and West coasts and in the blue states in the Midwest making the calls to uphold the status quo. My, my how things are changing. Consider the COVID-19 pandemic as the game-changer. Published July 23, 2020
According to the survey of 1,000-plus, self-identified American sports fans, about 66% feel it important for live sports to return before September. Published July 20, 2020
Who would've thunk that it would be easier to pick a new name for owner Dan Snyder's beloved Washington Redskins than for parents and caretakers in the nation's capital to know when the first day of school for the 2020-21 academic year would be? Published July 16, 2020
Around mid-March, schools around the country began closing because of the coronavirus scare. Now as the 2020-21 school year approaches, parents want definitive plans for reopening them. They also should be asking what's happened to the money. Published July 13, 2020
At the risk of sounding sexist, I've put Miss Bowser and a few other female mayors on the spot because of the violence this past holiday weekend -- a weekend when family, food and fun posed what? A triple threat? Published July 9, 2020
Though America has not declared war on another country and another 9/11 has not caught us napping, America is nonetheless at war. Published July 2, 2020
The cries for police reform are justifiable, especially when the daily and nightly news constantly replay lives permanently quieted by the questionable actions of a few law enforcers. Legislating too quickly, however, could unwittingly put students, their families and school faculty at risk. Published June 29, 2020
If the Emancipation Memorial is defaced, destroyed or removed from its prominence of Capitol Hill, so too would the history of African and Caribbean Americans. Published June 25, 2020
People say they're fed up, frustrated and angry, and they're demanding that everybody "get on the bus." Published June 22, 2020
If she were to win, Ms. McClellan would become America's first black female governor, Virginia's first black female governor and the second woman elected to a statewide seat in Virginia. Talk about breaking glass ceilings. And to do so in Virginia, of all states, would be a democratic, er, Democratic stunner. Published June 18, 2020
The children born to the latchkey generation want a reason -- any reason -- to be released from purgatorial COVID-19 lockdown. Teens and young adults were given free reign to play hooky from school for protests -- and parents went along with the schools' permissive policies. And they know they risk being arrested for breaking curfew but do not care. Police will let them go, and they know it. Published June 15, 2020
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has a lot of explaining to do. He has been shouted down by residents and other stakeholders who have been protesting his heavy-handed lockdown. In fact, he has been shouted down by his own constituents every time he attempted to make a point at one of his press conferences. Published June 11, 2020
On June 3, the day after the presidential primary, D.C. lawmakers and officials under the direction of the mayor made a confession: Caretakers of D.C. voting rights had screwed up big time. Published June 8, 2020
Politicians and unions are mostly focusing on what school facilities should look like when faculty and students return, mostly proposing the same health and safety mandates that have been followed since the COVID-19 lockdown. Published June 4, 2020
The day the world learned that Martin Luther King became a martyr has left an indelible mark, April 4, 1968, on the soul of humanity, because he reached out to the minds and hearts in America. Published June 1, 2020
The press for the "new normal" means local and state governments locked us down so they could lock up the keys pegged to fiscal responsibility. Published May 28, 2020
You needn't be a hi-tech hipster to be familiar with Siri of Appleland or Alexa of the Amazon, the artificially intelligent ladies at your beck and call now hanging out with a new kid on the AI block. Its name is contact tracing, and it's being deployed in the battle to rein in COVID-19. Published May 26, 2020
