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I guess I could be convinced to fight, but only if the steel cage is fully funded and built by D.C. residents....

Hillman, Jesus, you're think-headed. Stop with the "DCist" thing. I am the one who has primarily written on the stadium; this isn't a group editorial decision or something. I stand behind all of my ...

Yes, the Arthur Capper/Carrolsburg project was torn down, but that was totally unrelated to the stadium (it was a project that was in the works prior to any stadium negotiations). And that re-developm...

Hillman, I didn't live far from that part of town for five years, so I know full well what it was like. I also know that the DOT building and other such development were in the works before the stadi...

Hillman, First, I'll say it again -- you're right that not all D.C. residents are directly paying for the stadium. That's true. But all D.C. residents are on the hook for those payments being made. I...

BTW, Hillman, by your logic, Americans aren't really paying for the war in Iraq because it's essentially being put on the country's credit card. When a city levies a tax to pay back a debt -- regard...

Hillman, Wow, that's a shit-ton of speculation there, isn't it? Pretty much any development in that area is a few years off. Assuming that 10,000 people will move there is, well, guesswork. As for y...

The attendance thing, if it persists, is a big problem. The city is paying back the $611 million they owe partly through taxes on tickets and concessions. If they can't draw a good crowd, those taxes ...

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Wizzyliz, I didn't mean to say that your fundamental constitutional rights changes with where you live. Quite the contrary -- they remain consistent throughout the U.S. But since we accept that every...

DCist20009, Well, not just any large group of people could gather in downtown DC and protest whenever they wanted and without consequences. I'm as big a fan of freedom of speech and assembly, but in ...

Thanks for the maps. My question regarding the federal lands there is how much they coincide with large, urban areas or significant centers of population. I'm curious because a state like Nevada pro...

RJ, Yes, that is true. Of course, if the economy goes to hell and the team sucks in the years to come, the city could well be forced to pay out of the budget. Then residents will be paying for it. O...

Ummm, again, you're missing some key details. Yes, we get our own appropriations bill. But given that 95 percent of that money was ours to begin with, it's not like we get a huge prize. The federal ...

Suburban, Ahh yes, the myth of the federal payment. First off, all of the District's local taxes are sent to Congress and then re-allocated to the city. Second, it was in 1997 that the feds agree...

Guest, "No taxation without representation" was first uttered in 1750 and became a defining rallying cry for the American Revolution. I doubt that today you could find one person that disagree with t...

Krisa, Since you claim that the council and I are good at little but complaining, please feel free to outline your political plan to get D.C. voting representation. And don't just throw out "Retroced...

Some of you are missing a big point here -- that stadium belong to the District. The city is paying for it. We shouldn't have to accept that the Lerners have absolute control, especially when District...

Monkeyrotica, The District paid for the stadium, and so the District should be able to use it to make a point that is at its most basic level an expression of American history and political tradition...