David Krucoff faces long odds to become D.C.’s delegate.

Though D.C. politicians still have their eyes on the 51st state, one group argues that retrocession is the only way forward.

At least one local driver thinks that D.C. and Maryland should become one.

Photo by TDLphoto Some of the everyday Tea Party protesters who descended on Washington last week may well be in favor of D.C. getting full voting rights in Congress, but bigger names associated with the movement are much less supportive. Newly minted Washington Post blogger (and occasional DCist contributor) Dave Weigel was following the Tea Partiers all over town, and he asked former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, lately of FreedomWorks, whether he thought…

Map courtesy of Nikolas Schiller Way back when the District was first created from land granted to the cause by Maryland and Virginia, the nation’s capital was a nice 100-mile square. But when in 1847 Virginia decided to take back Arlington County and Alexandria, the commonwealth took a bite out of the District that still remains — now we’re a lopsided 69-square-mile half-square of sorts. But now local statehood activist Nikolas Schiller has found…