Alex Koma

1 week ago | wamu.org | Alex Koma

The federal layoffs roiling D.C.’s economy meant that just about every local lawmaker and activist were bracing for steep cuts to the social safety net in the city’s new budget. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposal represents the realization of their worst fears. Bowser, at last, unveiled her 2026 budget this week, and it includes a total of roughly $2 billion in cuts spread across the next four years.

1 week ago | npr.org | Alex Koma

Washington, D.C. is home to lots of federal workers. As they get laid off or worry about their futures under the Trump administration, that's having an impact on the local economy and the city budget.

2 weeks ago | wamu.org | Alex Koma

Now that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposal to bring the Washington Commanders back to D.C. is public, supporters are hitting the road to sell the roughly $4 billion deal. That includes At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie. He headed to a community meeting in Ward 7 last week to make his pitch. “This is more than a stadium, y’all,” McDuffie told the crowd gathered at a Deanwood restaurant a few miles east of the stadium’s proposed site on the RFK campus, earning plenty of cheers.

3 weeks ago | wamu.org | Alex Koma

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was jubilant at last month’s big announcement of a tentative deal to bring the Washington Commanders back to the District. “Promise made,” Bowser intoned before a gathering of supporters and journalists at the National Press Club. “Promise kept,” the crowd replied. She’s been trying to get the football team back to the District basically since she became mayor back in 2015.

1 month ago | wamu.org | Alex Koma

Monday’s announcement of a deal to bring the Washington Commanders back to D.C. was not short on famous names, bright lights or shiny graphics. Sorting out the details of the stadium proposal will be decidedly less glitzy, but no less important for local leaders. There are still some serious unanswered questions about Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $3.7 billion pitch for a new stadium on the RFK campus along the Anacostia River.