The closure of The Block in Annandale raises an important question about how we view suburbs. That question is not “more housing, yea or nay?”, but whether or not these maturing yet aging places are ...

In 2020, my husband and I bought our first home in Prince George’s County, but beloved senior dog Poptart couldn’t be licensed there because she looked like a pit bull. We were told we had two options ...

This year, my dog and I became members of a not-so-exclusive club: the 60,000 pedestrians who will be injured in a car crash each year. In the process of writing about this I get stuck: I want to ...

It’s an unprecedented private investment.” “The District is only paying for general infrastructure.” “The stadium will prevent housing development delays.” These, and other defenses of reinstalling ...

Many camps have weighed in on the National Park Service’s proposal to end the reversible lanes on Rock Creek & Potomac ...

Making it easier to build more, smaller houses would bring down home prices and help bring back the starter home. Here’s how.

This year, Mayor Muriel Bowser asked the DC Council for $856 million in public funds to subsidize a new Commanders stadium. We think the real price paid by taxpayers will be more like…$6 billion.

Over the break, our staff and board are sharing their favorite posts from this year, GGWash Picks, in case you missed them the first time around. See you in 2026! During the holidays while GGWash’s ...

Washingtonians in 1860 could take trains directly to Baltimore and from there to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or the trans-Appalachian West. A journey from Alexandria to Richmond, however, required a ...

Nonprofit renovates vacant homes in southwest Baltimore. Downtown DC office building hits foreclosure. Apartment building proposed in Vienna’s MetroWest.

Rail took a while to reach Northern Virginia. The railroad first reached Washington, DC in 1835, but it would be another twenty-six years before the line was extended across the Potomac.