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D.C. Council member Jack Evans, Ward 2 Democrat, said privatization of the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act would drastically cut costs. (The Washington Times/File) **FILE**

House GOP rebuffs request for Metro funds

Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans asked Congress Wednesday to step up funding to help fix the ailing transit system, but was quickly rebuffed by Republican lawmakers who said they wouldn't fund the project on the backs of federal taxpayers.

April 13, 2016
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Muriel Bowser pushes $15 minimum wage for Washington, D.C.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is set to introduce legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour despite cries that it would unduly burden city businesses and make the District less attractive to companies seeking to set up shop.

April 11, 2016
FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2016, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a rally at Bonanza High School, in Las Vegas. Sanders scored a sizeable victory at Nevada’s county-level Democratic conventions on Saturday, April 2, a reversal from Hillary Clinton’s comfortable triumph at the state’s higher-profile Democratic caucuses on Feb 20. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) **FILE**

D.C. Council alters rules to allow Bernie Sanders on primary ballot

Sen. Bernard Sanders is back on the District of Columbia's Democratic primary ballot, as the D.C. Council moved to clean up the mess made when the city's Democratic Party failed to certify the presidential candidate by the deadline, putting him in jeopardy of being shut out.

April 5, 2016
Demonstrators protest to legalize marijuana outside of the White House, in Washington, Saturday, April 2, 2016. During the event they demanded Obama use his authority to stop marijuana arrests and pardon offenders. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Firm offers ‘free’ pot to D.C. customers who buy its juice

An Oakland-based company has started selling cold-pressed juice to thirsty Washingtonians -- with a side of free marijuana. It's the latest example of a deep contradiction at the heart of pot policy in the nation's capital, where growing, lighting up and even giving away marijuana are all now permitted but where legalized sales are not.

April 4, 2016
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser takes her seat before federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland is introduced as President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kenyan McDuffie: Muriel Bowser’s $13.5B budget shorts schools

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged more than $1 billion for school modernization in her fiscal 2017 budget proposal, but in the city council's first public review of the mayor's $13.5 billion financial blueprint, at least one member on Monday said his ward got shorted in the deal.

April 4, 2016

D.C. child population shifts to neighborhoods of young professionals

Call it the gentrification generation: Census statistics show that the number of children in the District is increasing, but the greatest concentration of children has moved from east of the Anacostia River to neighborhoods dominated by young professionals, such as Petworth.

March 31, 2016