Back in September, I broke the news that the District was offering up downtown's Franklin School for development again. This erstwhile adult education school was a homeless shelter for years, until the city shut it down in September 2008. Charter schools first got a shot at moving into the building. But their plans were deemed [...]

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Tanya Davis spends most of her hours on the couch, watching cable television shows depicting graphic surgeries and other invasive medical procedures.
It’s not that she’s lost her job or depressed. She’s bed-ridden, waiting for her baby—“Ella” is the chosen name—to be born, [...]