When in the closing days of 2006 we looked back on the year in D.C. voting rights, we optimistically hoped that 2007 would finally be the year that saw some movement on enfranchising the District’s residents. Movement, yes; resolution, not so much. So as we wind down 2007, we’re again left hoping that maybe the coming year will be the one. The primary mover in the D.C. voting rights movement in 2007 was legislation…
It was 234 years ago Sunday that American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor as part of a symbolic protest against being taxed by the British while not having a representative in the Westminster Parliament. Yesterday District voting rights activists remembered the event by holding their own tea party, this one to protest the union’s last standing example of taxation without representation. Though the wind whipped across the Potomac River, about 80 activists and…
Sure, it’s December and we’re all preoccupied with holiday cheer and making plans for that one New Year’s party that will finally be worth the all the hype. But even though they’ve suffered some setbacks this year, D.C. voting rights activists are pushing the cause through the holiday season. On Thursday, December 6, the D.C. Council will hold a hearing to consider legislation that would place large electronic billboards outside the John A. Wilson Building…
Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else – like Tom…
It’s going to be a bright and beautiful day here in Washington, and since we’ve had some less than sunny headlines so far this summer, we’d like to take a moment to point some good news. Believe it or not, your daily walks to work could actually begin getting easier. How, you say? Well we’re just so glad you asked. It seems the city has begun spending money on rubberized sidewalks, which last longer than…
As readers of DCist may well know, the on-going saga as what to name RFK Stadium continues, even though city officials promised on the day of the Nationals home opener that the stadium would officially be christened “Armed Forces Field at RFK Stadium.” Being that the deal has not yet materialized, another name may now be in the running. In an opinion piece posted on Fox News’ website yesterday, CATO Institute policy analyst, blogger, and…
At the DNC convention in Boston today, some of of the District’s brightest political lumniaries participated in an age-old practice of protesting taxation without representation by what they’re calling a “Second Boston Tea Party” by dumping North Carolina tea into Boston Harbor. The D.C. Delegation to the convention, according to the Post, includes 45 people: 3 pledged to Dean, 12 to Kerry, 5 to Al Sharpton, and the rest uncommitted. The issue of D.C. voting…