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Julia Airey

jairey@washingtontimes.com

Airey was a Metro reporter for the Washington Times.

Articles by Julia Airey

The budget plan by President Trump released this week "notes a lack of a clear federal role for supporting the cost of higher education specifically for District residents." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

D.C., parents plan to fight DCTAG cuts

City officials and parents say they will fight President Trump's plan to cut federal funding for a D.C. program that helps residents attend college anywhere in the nation.

February 13, 2018
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, joined by from left, District of Columbia Police Chief Peter Newsham, District of Columbia Council member Charles Allen, District of Columbia Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, speaks at One Judiciary Square in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. District of Columbia officials say they won't appeal a court ruling against a strict city gun law, setting the stage for it to become easier for gun owners to get concealed carry permits in the city. City officials announced their decision not to take the case to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

D.C. Council approves Fair Elections Act

The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would provide public for political campaigns — legislation modeled after a New York City program plagued with fraud and other abuses.

February 6, 2018
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 In the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the Rev. Liz Theoharis (left) reads a letter demanding action for the nation's poor after being denied access to deliver it to House Speaker Paul Ryan's and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's offices. To her right Graylan Scott Hagler listens with a crowd of other clergy and civil rights activists who gathered on Monday the 5th of February to revive the 50 year-old Poor People's Campaign which ended with Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.

Poor People’s Campaign launches at Capitol

A group of clergy and civil rights activists converged Monday at the U.S. Capitol to announce the revival of movement to fight poverty initiated by Martin Luther King 50 years ago.

February 5, 2018
Army veteran Bernin Gibson, 82, leans his pack of donated winter clothes against a bollard near the Washington DC VA Medical Center on Saturday after the Winterhaven service fare. Mr. Gibson has attended Winterhaven since it began 24 years ago. (Julia Airey / The Washington Times)

Homelessness among veterans rises in D.C.

Veteran Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin has expressed concern that homelessness among former troops in the District has inched higher, even as it has fallen nationwide.

January 30, 2018
Hector Lugo, right, and Kevin Morton, left, kneel by a bus stop as they survey a homeless man Wednesday night for the annual Point-In-Time census of homelessness in the District. (Julia Airey/The Washington Times). **FILE**

D.C. homeless tally yields mixed results

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser joined volunteers who hit the streets to count the number of people sleeping outdoors Wednesday night as part of the District's annual "Point-in-Time" (PIT) tally of homelessness.

January 25, 2018