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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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SIMMONS: Government of D.C. can’t thwart thieves

D.C. officials are deceiving themselves — and you — if they think the government will be able to outwit larcenous-hearted thieves once its online gambling program is up and running.

September 11, 2011

SIMMONS: D.C. voters want term limits, ethics reform

The washed-out rally for D.C. voting rights isn't about freedom or democracy. It's a feeble mockery to thwart what D.C. voters want and what city hall sorely needs — term limits and ethics reform.

August 28, 2011

SIMMONS: The undoing of a village’s character

From Los Angeles to the District, police officials are investigating bands of marauders; some appear to be racially motivated because the assailants are black and the victims are white, while others are partaking in black-on-black crime.

August 21, 2011

SIMMONS: This is what’s under my skin

The NCAA booster cats are out of the bag courtesy of con man extraordinaire Nevin Shapiro, who told Yahoo! Sports that he financed the high life for student-athletes at the "U" by providing them with money and hookers and cars. Caught red-handed.

August 17, 2011

SIMMONS: Education, HIV notions must change

There are false pictures being painted by those in positions of leadership when it comes to the national AIDS/HIV epidemic and the city's educational system.

August 7, 2011

SIMMONS: Personal responsibility sorely lacking in D.C.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility? With serious and sundry scandals making several of the District of Columbia's top Democrats look like Charlie Brown's pal Pig Pen, you would think individual Democrats would at least try to clean up their act by working to prevent crime the old-fashioned way.

July 17, 2011

SIMMONS: Good news on HIV/AIDS can get better

We are seemingly darn close to developing pharmaceuticals that reduced the risk of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, but a bit of discouraging news made headlines this week, too.

July 13, 2011

SIMMONS: D.C. should have Redskins in the game

The prospects for a collective-bargaining deal between National Football League owners and players that would lead to preseason and regular-season play are growing brighter.

July 6, 2011

SIMMONS: Who’s sailing with Gray on development?

Acknowledging the "natural nexus between education, economic development and jobs," Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Monday unveiled his vision of short- and long-term economic development prospects, which brings to mind the parables and lessons in Mark.

June 29, 2011

SIMMONS: A disconnect on big issues in the District

While D.C. parents and school-choice proponents were filing into the Renaissance Hotel at Ninth Street and New York Avenue Northwest, D.C. officials were several blocks away at the White House raising Cain about voting rights. Our city leadership was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

June 26, 2011