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District of Columbia at a glance
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Each page shows who represents it and how to reach them, recent public votes, and the numbers where they are measured. Not sure which is yours? Look up your address.
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State Board of Education wards 8
Advisory Neighborhood Commissions 46
Single Member Districts 345
345 pages. Find yours by looking up your address.
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School districts 1
Issues in District of Columbia
What matters most comes first: full stories, then decisions that keep coming back, divide the board, draw residents, change how land near you is used, or move big money for the size of the place. Open decisions come before decided ones.
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What is being decided for the District
Matters before the Council that keep coming back, divide its members or move $1 million or more. Open one to see every vote, who decides it and how to tell your own Councilmembers where you stand.
Decided
- Enhancing parking enforcement through the Strategic Parking Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2025Last vote October 6, 2026Weigh in ›
- Restricting scalping against live entertainment under the Restricting Egregious Scalping Against Live Entertainment (RESALE) Amendment Act of 2025Last vote July 14, 2026Weigh in ›
- Amending the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Support Act of 2026 with a substitute version offered by MendelsonLast vote July 7, 2026Weigh in ›
- Establishing the Fiscal Year 2027 Local Budget Act of 2026Last vote June 23, 2026Weigh in ›
Stories for the District of Columbia
Told with the District of Columbia’s own numbers. Open one to go down to your county, city and address.
- 69,000 Black men lost federal jobs. Why didn't anyone count them?About 69,000 fewer Black men work federal jobs than in 2024. Their count beside Black women, where it hit hardest, and who can act.Read the story ›
- Black voters moved in 2026. What did it win, and what comes next?A record 124 million voted. About 9 in 10 Black voters backed House Democrats, and five Black governors won. State by state, and what comes next.Read the story ›
- How do we raise Black children's reading, state by state?In New Jersey 1 in 4 Black fourth graders read at Proficient; nationwide it is 1 in 6. Where reading is rising, who decides, and what you can do.Read the story ›
Sources are named in each story: Census Bureau business surveys, Bureau of Economic Analysis, USAspending.gov, USDA, and state records. Benefits and federal awards are separate measures and are never added together. Every story ›
Reported in Black newspapers in the District of Columbia
These are headlines from the papers themselves. Each one is the paper’s reporting, not SourceLine’s record. Open a headline to read it on the paper’s own site.
- Trump’s Grip on Washington Shattered as Democrats Sweep CongressReporting from Washington Informer, not SourceLine’s record. November 4, 2026. Opens on Washington Informer’s own website, with its own ads ↗
- New Study Estimates CTE in 75% of Deceased NFL Players, Including Former Washington StarsReporting from Washington Informer, not SourceLine’s record. October 28, 2026. Opens on Washington Informer’s own website, with its own ads ↗
Headlines from Black newspapers, most of them members of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, gathered from their public feeds. SourceLine links to each paper and does not republish its articles.