Kojo gets the latest on what’s happening inside federal agencies as inauguration day approaches, and explores how the presidential transition is affecting morale among federal workers in our region.

As organizers prepare events of different political persuasions around the inauguration, questions are popping up about when local businesses can and can't say no.

The District has changed so much in the last decade, it's easy to forget how the landscape has altered. Luckily there are images and people to remind us.

We discuss a bill that would give politically-divided Howard County "sanctuary" status with a Baltimore Sun reporter and the Republican on the council that opposes the move.

A recent investigative series by The Washington Post painteds a picture of a criminal justice system struggling with repeat violent offenders.

Known as the MLK Gateway project, the recently-announced plan to revamp a vacant corner in Ward 8 into a center of economic activity could signal big change in Anacostia.

Kojo and Tom Sherwood chat with Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

Locally, we felt the loss of figures who shaped the region and others' perception of it through their work. We remember figures like cartoonist Richard Thompson, journalist Gwen Ifill and author and professor E.R. Braithwaite.

City officials and local advocates are concerned that the sharing economy is emptying communities of neighbors and blocking access to affordable housing.

Since its opening in 2014, CityCenterDC has become an upscale destination in the heart of the city. But its empty feel has prompted questions over what mix of retail, residential and restaurants give a neighborhood soul. Kojo explores "placemaking" in real estate.