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Critical. Subversive. Irrepressible.

AWOL

Critical. Subversive. Irrepressible.

AWOL

Critical. Subversive. Irrepressible.

AWOL

On the ballot

On the ballot

Ballot Initiative 83 seeks to implement ranked choice voting and semi-closed primaries in Washington.
Ava Ramsdale, Staff Editor December 3, 2024

Editor's Note: This article was reported and written before election day, but has been published after. Ballot Initiative 83 has since been approved. In 2017, Lisa D.T. Rice changed her party registration...

DC’s fight for statehood continues after centuries of advocacy

DC’s fight for statehood continues after centuries of advocacy

Taxation without representation, race and lobbying central to statehood movement
Kathryn Gilroy, Managing Editor May 6, 2024

Citizens in Washington, D.C., have been fighting for statehood and representation in Congress for 219 years, but recently, the fight has expanded past the district's borders. Nebraska State Sen. Danielle...

The cost of minimum wage

The cost of minimum wage

The impact of DC’s new tipped service law
Bailey Bish, Staff Editor April 25, 2023

On Nov. 8, 2022, Raif Ahmed was sitting on his friend’s couch and decided to glance at a New York Times poll for the results of a new ballot initiative that would change how tipped workers are compensated...

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