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Voices of Zion Bring Back Black Georgetown
Before gentrification and discriminatory public housing policies plagued Georgetown, before the neighborhood became synonymous with White wealth […]

Excluded Workers’ Budget Demands Go Unanswered With First Vote
In the first of two votes yesterday, the D.C. Council unanimously approved the District’s $19.5 billion 2023 budget. Big-ticket items on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s wish list—like more police officers and greater investments in affordable housing—made it in. So did tens of millions of dollars dedicated to programs ranging from additional school and family support services…

How City Desk Reporters Found Their Niche
City Desk is not a desk job. Never mind that I never actually had a desk in City Paper offices (they’d moved out of the space on 15th Street NW at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic before I came on board in 2021). The beat takes you from migrant safe houses and street demonstrations…