Well if the D.C. Council's actions violate the spirit of the court's decision, the courts will smack them down for it. (It should be said - I agree with your objections to the council's new regulation...

ianto94 - The D.C. Council has acted and residents can now possess handguns in their homes. Will the rest of the regulations have to be sorted out by the courts? Probably, but that's exactly what the ...

hillvada, Sure, the feds pay for all those things, but let's not forget that 42 percent of the District's land is untaxable. The GAO long ago found that this led to a yearly deficit that could exceed...

Correction - I'll only take congressional intervention if it's them passing legislation saying that our business is our business and that we should have full voting representation. But that's not inte...

Cranky, I've been consistent on this one - I don't want congressional intervention for anything. The D.C. Council could mandate that we all wear green hats and that bloggers be arrested on sight, and...

Ianto94, I do not believe that in any case Congress should act as a substitute for the decisions of local legislatures. That's how this entire country's system has been set up. Congress can act to pu...

Wow. Smith & Wesson are just asking for a media nightmare when this gun is used in a crime in which someone is shot dead....

The NewHillEast Yahoo! listserv....

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 ...

Oops! Forgot it. Here it is. ...

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...