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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009UPDATE: According to the Office of the Secretary, the details of the grant are not ready for release. Stay tuned for a future update regarding the procedure and timing. In the meantime, get your thinking caps on…
The following grant notice was distributed last week at the Statehood Stakeholders meeting. I don’t have more details beyond [...]
District Appropriation Bill Clears Conference Committee
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Good news from the Capitol, the District’s annual appropriation bill has cleared the conference committee with many of the egregious riders being stripped off. The District’s long-standing prohibitions on spending city funds on medical marijuana, needle-exchange programs and abortion will finally be lifted.
Directly from the Senate Appropriation Committee’s web site:
Removing Special Restrictions on the [...]
Trouble for Colonialist at the Capitol
Monday, November 23rd, 2009I’m a little late in writing about this, but I wanted to make sure I got it into my blog “for the record”.
As you may recall, last week I wrote about a hearing that was taking place on Capitol Hill about the the issue of Congressional oversight “in all cases whatsoever” in local matters within [...]
Statehood Stakeholders Meeting – December 10th
Friday, November 13th, 2009Councilmember Michael A. Brown, Chair of the Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination, will be holding the the third Statehood Stakeholders Meeting next month. Details are below:
DATE: Thursday, December 10, 2009
TIME: [...]
Old School Fight for DC Home Rule
Monday, November 9th, 2009Tip of the hat to Nikolas Schiller for posting this recently. It’s an advertisement from an 1880 newspaper urging DC citizens to attend an organizational meeting and rise up against “Taxation Without Representation” and Congressional interference in local affairs. Yeah, this has been an issue for a long, long time.
HOME RULE FOR THE DISTRICT
GRAND MASS-MEETING [...]
