Phenomenal reporting by The Washington Post here in how D.C. has failed to successfully address school truancy, and how that’s helped fuel the youth crime we see today. washingtonpost.com/investigations…

New from Washington Post Investigations: We wanted to understand why youth crime shot up so stunningly in D.C. in 2023. Today, we published a multi-part investigation into the city's failure to both prevent and address the epidemic. Each part threaded here. Thank you for reading! 1/x

The The Washington Post has several pieces of moving journalism about cancer in young adulthood. On Post Reports, Drea Cornejo takes us inside the lives of one couple. She takes us inside hers. And she inspires me to open up about my own recent experience. washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-…

More than 70 artists recently came together to turn a dilapidated corner in Southeast D.C. into a beautiful community mural:

Just want to stress to readers out there that while we hear your concern about all the changes to our print paper, we on the Metro desk are not going anywhere and remain committed to the mission of local news.

Baltimore sheriff probes courthouse employee for allegedly inviting ICE to detain someone, Ben Conarck reports: tinyurl.com/5bzu3t58 (via The Baltimore Banner)

Catonsville residents and leaders were not happy with the state's plan to put an incubator for cannabis businesses into a shuttered armory. After Céilí Doyle wrote about community concerns, Gov. Wes Moore announced the state will look for a new site. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

Moving into a new role at The Washington Post, covering the impact of the Trump administration & the federal government on the D.C. area. So excited, so grateful. Here to dig, listen & learn. My Signal is OCGeorge.59 — let's chat. washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/07/09/…

Gov. Wes Moore often boasts that middle class Marylanders are getting an income tax cut. That’s true — many are. But the average cut is $43. I break down who is paying less, who is paying more: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

It's Election Day in Ward 8, where voters will decide whether to return indicted Trayon White to the D.C. Council or opt for new leadership. We'll be talking to voters all day and you can follow along in this story which will be updated: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

First on 4: “Lost memories. Lost souls” Cemetery for boys sent to youth detention in Prince George’s County rediscovered. Now there are efforts to acknowledge and restore the graves and reform the juvenile justice system. nbcwashington.app.link/wSMiPVIr6Ub

“They can’t be made whole,” Clark said, “but they at least deserve some respect in death that they didn’t get in life.” From Katie Mettler: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Records show that Maryland officials have known about the existence of this lost cemetery since at least the 1970s. Yet the graves of more than 100 Black children remain abandoned, mostly unmarked and deteriorating in an overgrown forest. Read here: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Must read story from Pamela Wood and Brenda Wintrode.

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

In today’s The Washington Post, Venezuelan migrants, who neither the U.S. or El Salvador ever proved had criminal records, describe horror, torture behind bars at the prison our country sent them to. Brilliant work Teo Armus Samantha Schmidt Helena Carpio washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

On Monday, Spotlight PA will publish a story I have been working on for the better part of two years. It deals with mental health care, institutionalization, and the desperate choices forced on people by a state that knew the consequences of failing to build an adequate system.

“Even though Maryland is a Democratic state, up here they’re not. They voted red. And I think that’s where the frustration for the residents is... Now they feel like the president has turned his back on them.” - Mayor Judy Hamilton From Katie Shepherd: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Maryland state agencies are required by law to grant or deny public records requests within 30 days of the request being made. Today, 33 days after I filed my request, MD State Police told me that my request will take several more WEEKS. Why even have an MPIA law if no one follows it?

The Trump administration's scrutiny of George Mason University is continuing and expanding. Last week, the DOJ said it would review staff texts, emails after faculty praised the GMU president in a resolution, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post. link below: