Ryan M. McDermott

D.C.’s paid family leave bill proves divisive for D.C. Council

A paid family leave bill has exposed deep divisions among the mostly Democratic D.C. Council, which gave preliminary approval to the legislation on Tuesday.

December 6, 2016

D.C. Council set to vote on paid-leave bill after months of revisions

Advocates and opponents of the D.C. Council's paid family leave bill say the legislation still has key problems after months of revisions to assuage businesses.

December 5, 2016

Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor, will meet with Donald Trump at Trump Tower

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will meet with President-Elect Donald Trump Tuesday morning in New York at his transition headquarters at Trump Tower.

December 5, 2016

Edgar Maddison Welch arrested after bringing gun to Comet Ping Pong to investigate #PizzaGate

D.C. police quickly apprehended Sunday a North Carolina man with a rifle who walked into the Comet Ping Pong restaurant on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest seeking to investigate a debunked internet conspiracy theory.

December 4, 2016

D.C. police nab man with rifle at Comic Ping Pong restaurant in Northwest

D.C. police quickly apprehended Sunday a man with a rifle who walked into the Comet Ping Pong restaurant on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest.

December 4, 2016

Washington Monument: David Rubenstein pledges millions to fix structure’s elevator

The Washington Monument's much-maligned and oft-inoperable elevator will be overhauled in the coming years after local philanthropist David Rubenstein pledged millions to fund its repairs.

December 2, 2016

Jack Evans, Metro Board chairman, vows D.C. veto of extended cuts to late-night service

Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans vowed Thursday that the District's representatives will veto a plan to keep late-night subway service cuts in place for two years after the transit agency's SafeTrack repairs end next year.

December 1, 2016

D.C. may stop helping out-of-town homeless

Advocates for the homeless want the D.C. Council to slow its consideration of an emergency mayoral proposal that would limit homeless benefits to only D.C. residents and make it easier to turn away nonresidents seeking shelter in the city.

November 30, 2016

Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor, worried about paid family leave bill’s fairness to city

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser offered little support Tuesday for a revised paid family leave bill, citing employment statistics showing the program would mostly benefit people who work in the city but live in Maryland and Virginia.

November 29, 2016

Metro proposes cutting rail’s late-night service hours

Metro officials are proposing to close the subway at 11:30 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends for at least two years in order to execute a long-term maintenance plan that could cut track-related delays in half.

November 28, 2016

Family leave act in D.C. will grant 11 weeks per year

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson's long-awaited revision of a paid family leave bill will include 11 weeks of leave for new parents and eight weeks of leave for caring for a sick relative. The legislation is expected to cost the District about $250 million a year.

November 28, 2016

D.C. bill to bar credit check access on job applicants

The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would bar businesses from performing credit checks on job applicants. Supporters of the legislation say credit histories can be inaccurate and indicate little about workers' character.

November 27, 2016

Muriel Bowser nominates Antwan Wilson to be chancellor of schools

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday nominated Antwan Wilson, the superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in California, to become the next chancellor of D.C. Public Schools.

November 22, 2016

Michelle Rhee, ex-D.C. schools chancellor, removes her name from Education Dept. consideration

Michelle Rhee formally took herself out of the running to head the Department of Education in the Trump administration.

November 22, 2016

Antwan Wilson set to become D.C. public schools chancellor

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday morning is set to announce Antwan Wilson, the current Oakland Unified School District superintendent, to head up D.C. schools.

November 21, 2016

Homeless population in D.C. up 14%, one of biggest spikes in U.S.

The number of homeless people in the District rose 14 percent this year compared to 2015 — one of the sharpest increases in the country.

November 21, 2016

1.2 million area residents to travel 50 miles or more for Thanksgiving holiday

More than a million people are expected to flee the D.C.-region for Thanksgiving in other states next week -- and most of them will be making that trip in cars, clogging roadways in every direction.

November 17, 2016

D.C. Council eyes limits on PAC fundraising in nonelection years

Campaign finance reform crusaders on Wednesday lauded a D.C. Council measure that would forbid political action committees from raising unlimited funds in nonelection years and ban businesses from donating to candidates who could influence their contracts with the city.

November 16, 2016

Alejandro Avelar arrested for High Point High School mass violence Twitter threat

Police said 20-year-old Alejandro Avelar, of Adelphi, claimed on Twitter that he would bring guns and explosives to High Point High School.

November 15, 2016

Montgomery County leaders decry race-baiting graffiti

Montgomery County officials stood together Tuesday to denounce race-baiting graffiti at a local church and schools as hateful, anti-immigrant acts in the aftermath of last week's presidential election.