As D.C. and jurisdictions around the region put in their pitches for Amazon's second headquarters, we explore what winning that bid would mean for the region, and what it might cost taxpayers.

Many gardeners think that cooler weather means an end to gardening, but our roundtable of urban farmers offers tips for maintaining your garden throughout the fall months and preparing it for spring.

It’s “Your Turn” to share your views about the stories Washingtonians are talking about ––from a rollback on federal health care subsidies to the name change of a Virginia high school named after a Confederate general.

We speak with the Director of D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Melinda Bolling about the challenge of overseeing the central regulatory agency in a booming city.

As deer hunting begins in Maryland, we discuss different means for deer population management, including a controversial program in Montgomery County that allows bow hunting on park lands.

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett on minimum wage hikes, Purple Line construction, and violent gang suppression. Plus, Republican candidate for Virginia governor Ed Gillespie joins Kojo and Tom Sherwood in studio.

Local Washington was the setting for many of writer Ta-Nehisi Coates' formative experiences. Kojo sat with him in one of Washington's most historic black churches to discuss how those experiences, and the election of President Barack Obama, led to his new book "We Were Eight Years In Power."

The first phase of a massive redevelopment of Washington's Southwest waterfront is opening this week. The Wharf aims to activate this piece of D.C.'s waterfront space with housing, retail, restaurants from celebrity chefs and new music venues. But there are still questions about who will benefit from what's coming - and how the city's built environment interacts with waterways around it.

Virginia Hanlon Grohl urged her son Dave, now the frontman of the Foo Fighters, to play music even as he struggled in the local school system where she taught.

At the start of the school year, Frederick County, Md., spelled out its policies, including allowing students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. We discuss why the school district took the issue up now, and what the response has been.