Transit riders, rise up!

Sigute Meilus writes about the need for transit-riders to organize and advocate for their needs.

Quite a life, indeed

Angie Whitehurst writes about the most recent biography of Carol Schwartz, and about the history of the District.

Sketch illustration of two people walking toward a building labeled "Department of Food Stamps" that is closed, with strips of tape crossed, barring entrance.

Trump’s insulting Food Stamp Plan

Street Sense vendor Ken Martin writes that President Trump’s proposed plan to the food stamps program is insulting to the people who rely on food stamps.

Two signs above the crows, "Guns Do Kill Be People" and "Black Lives Matter," with the U.S. Capitol in the background.

Guns and our lives: A letter to the open-minded

Vendor Wendell Williams argues for the importance of stricter gun control for handguns, which disproportionately cause harm in black and Hispanic communities, as well as for assault weapons.

A hand holding money

The one percent

The Way Home Campaign calls for roughly one percent of the city budget to be applied toward “ending homelessness in D.C.”

Photo of the Wall Street sign in NYC

Open your big mouth!

On March 12, ten years after the financial crisis, I again joined the Fed Up Campaign (the “green shirts,” as they have been named by the government bureaucrats), along with members from Spaces D.C., to march on Wall Street.

Assault rifle

Bring back the ban

In 1994, an assault-weapons ban signed by President Bill Clinton outlawed the AR-15. But the law had a lot of loopholes and gun manufacturers circumvented it by modifying the weapons. The ban was written to expire after ten years and was lifted in 2004. Democrats tried to renew it, but there wasn’t much interest in Congress. I think President Trump can do the same but make stronger impact on banning assault-weapons. If you buy an AR-15 for sports, gun stores should ask the buyer for sporting proof. This weapon should not be used for hunting.

Marchers hold up their signs protesting gun violence

Listen to the children!

To plan the murder of innocents in a sacred place is barbaric. (As a teacher, I consider all educational institutions sacred.) Their minds are on their lessons, friends, plans for lunch or what to wear to the party on Saturday night. Not one child is thinking “Someone is going to kill me today.” If they had thought that, I’m sure they would have stayed home.  

Washington Monument surrounded by American flags

Up from Homelessness

Street Sense vendor and columnist Jefferey McNeil writes about his conflicted and oftentimes negative opinions on liberal values.

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