Doug Parrish

Washington's gun laws and the real John McCain

I must have missed where John McCain was elected to represent the District of Columbia in the U.S. Senate. This week, the senior senator from Arizona introduced legislation repealing DC’s gun laws. If approved, it would repeal...

2010, and still no vote for DC residents

Some people find it hard to understand why DC residents pay some of the highest taxes in the country, fight and die in America’s wars, and still have no vote in Congress. The explanation is quite simple, however...

Brian Betts: A shining star and tragic loss for DC public schools

Brian Betts was already starting to turn things around at Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee called Betts one of her “stars.“ On April 15, less than two years after taking the job...

Passing the buck: Fenty's new fees

It hasn’t exactly been flying high on the radar screen, so I thought I’d revisit an issue that truly does have an impact on thousands of DC residents. In an effort to close a whopping budget...

Run Vincent run!

With all the chants of “Save Our City!,” one might think Adrian Fenty was running this town into the ground. There were plenty of hugs and handshakes and smiling for the cameras as DC Council Chair Vincent Gray...

Teachers having sex with underage students...and it's perfectly legal.

Let me first applaud all those District of Columbia public school teachers who’ve been able to refrain from having sex with the children in their classrooms. Like many of you, I found it extremely alarming to learn this...

For same-sex couples, well worth the wait

Let the celebrations begin. Let the lines begin to form at the courthouse. Starting Wednesday, gay couples will finally be allowed to apply for marriage licenses in the nation's capital. Sure, they’ll still have to...

2010: The year of multiple Metro fare hikes

It seems ridiculous that Metro would raise fares more than once in a single year. Then again, not many transit agencies have the type of problems (some would say incompetence) the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority...

Snow removal reality check

So what your street hasn’t been plowed. Quit your whining. The nation’s capital has seen four snow storms in the last 10 days, and Wednesday’s blizzard put the District over the top for the...

Michelle Rhee Responds

We've all been waiting to hear DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s explanation for comments she made in an interview with “Fast Company” business magazine in which she made some very serious claims regarding...

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