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The Changing Demographics of Ward 5 – The Clock is Ticking!

   Ask any Ward 5 resident what’s important to them and you get a litany of answers ranging from crime, education, affordable housing, senior citizen care, and any number of shortcomings in the Ward. There’s no shortage of bitching and moaning about gentrification, the Ward 5 City Councilman or ANC Commissions. However, it takes more

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How Affordable is Affordable Housing? Ask Extremely Low Income Renters

   Amidst a shortage of affordable housing nationwide, block by block of the District is being devoured by high-rise condos, pop-up town homes or lavish multi-story single-family homes as the number of make-shift tents under overpasses and bridges increases. Affordable housing is becoming an oxymoron as families have to decide between paying rent, buying groceries,

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Razing the Barr! It helps to Have a Seat at the Table

  While Starbucks was closing 8000 stores to conduct its Racial-Bias education the Disney Company was tossed into its own controversy by Roseanne Barr. The so-called comedian decided to exercise her First Amendment right to hurl a racist comment to Valerie Jarrett, the former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Starbucks\’ seemingly swift condemnation of

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Hillary Clinton Honors White Women with a Bash During Women\’s History Month

Is it proper etiquette, for a former First Lady and Secretary of State to travel the country talking about her short-lived sitcom of sharing the exact seat of her husband, by bashing women to persuade the people in the audience?  Maybe this is a new strategy for a political party to adopt to prevent the

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