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Is there a Tea Party urbanism?
Many conservatives, especially Tea Party conservatives, strongly believe in removing powers and taxes from the federal government and transferring power to states and localities. At the moment, this view has strong support in Congress, especially the Republican-controlled House of...
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David Alpert
| February 9, 2011; 11:59 AM ET |
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New life for 'no taxation, no representation'
Our license plates have long complained of "Taxation Without Representation." Now, one Republican congressman says he'd like to change that slogan to "No Taxation, No Representation." According to The Hill, freshman Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) -- who said that...
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Martin Austermuhle
| February 7, 2011; 3:16 PM ET |
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D.C., under Congress's thumb
Regarding the Jan. 19 Local Digest item “New chairman for House D.C. panel”:Good to see that things are getting back to normal for the District in its relations with Congress. First, the GOP disenfranchises the taxpaying Americans who reside in the...
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Paul Carver, Arlington
| January 20, 2011; 7:14 PM ET |
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A better road to the vote: Retrocession, with a twist
There is a new Congress in town, but The Post and others continue to push for what the last one would not do: Enact a purely political, and likely unconstitutional, plan to give the District a full-fledged and almost certainly...
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Michael Wein, Greenbelt
| January 8, 2011; 8:59 PM ET |
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Keep fighting for voting rights
Ben Pershing’s Nov. 28 article, “For D.C. voting rights, window appears closed,” offered an overly pessimistic view of Washington’s future. If recent elections have taught us anything, it is that such bold, blanket predictions regarding the political future are almost...
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Ilir Zherka, Washington
| December 4, 2010; 10:50 PM ET |
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Dark times for D.C. voting rights
When Mayor-elect Vince Gray sits down with President Obama for lunch this Wednesday, D.C. voting rights will surely be on the agenda. But even if Gray complains about Obama's inattentiveness to the issue, there's not really much that the...
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Martin Austermuhle
| November 29, 2010; 1:15 PM ET |
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