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**FILE** Ward 8 Council member Trayon White is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor on June 21. (WI photo)

Collins Council Report: The Return from Summer Recess

by Sam P.K. Collins September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

This edition of The Washington Informer’s Collins Council Report comes on the heels of a controversial summer recess.

**FILE** D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto, Ward 2 Democrat (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Increased Accountability Measures for 911 Dispatch on the Way

by Sam P.K. Collins September 9, 2024September 9, 2024

**FILE** Celebrated community leader Phillip Pannell has been organizing for causes in the District since the 1970s. He famously fought for queer voices to be heard during the 20th-anniversary celebration of the March on Washington in 1983 and has continued his freedom fight against various injustices in the District and beyond. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Phil Pannell Officially Launches Write-In Campaign for Ward 8 Seat

by Sam P.K. Collins August 22, 2024August 23, 2024

Wendell Felder Emerges as Winner in Crowded Ward 7 D.C. Council Election

by Sam P.K. Collins June 7, 2024June 8, 2024

String of D.C. Jail Deaths Spark Fury About Pretrial Detention

by Sam P.K. Collins June 5, 2024June 6, 2024

**FLE** The John A. Wilson Building in northwest Washington, D.C. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

The Collins Council Report: The Council’s First Budget Vote

by Sam P.K. Collins May 29, 2024May 30, 2024

**FILE** Changing his affiliation from Democrat to the D.C. Statehood Green Party, grassroots activist Kymone Freeman is working to unseat D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in the November general election. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Two Delegate Norton Challengers Take Fight to General Election: Brown and Freeman

by Sam P.K. Collins March 20, 2024March 20, 2024

D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4) and D.C. Council member Trayon White (D-Ward 8) secured $5 million in capital funds for the purchase of a building on or near Kennedy Street in Northwest that will be turned into a new Ward 4 library. (Shedrick Pelt/The Washington Informer)

The Collins Council Report

by Sam P.K. Collins February 6, 2024February 8, 2024

**FILE** The D.C. Council chamber at the John A. Wilson Building in D.C. (Courtesy of dccouncil.us)

The Collins Council Report

by Sam P.K. Collins January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

**FILE** D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto, Ward 2 Democrat (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Secure DC Omnibus Bill Advances to Committee of the Whole Amid Questions, Pushback

by Sam P.K. Collins January 17, 2024January 18, 2024