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Emancipation Day 2012: More Meaningful Than Ever
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Washington Post (DC) |
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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Maurice Jackson |
. . . When then-Mayor Marion Barry proclaimed in the 1980s that “we are in charge,” it was an exaggeration. D.C. may have been called “Chocolate City,” but Congress still had and has veto power over the city budget and taxing authority, and the Federal City Council still wields broad economic power.
Congress constantly experiments with policies it wants to test, including school vouchers and repealing gun control. And in 2012, with a population of more than 600,000, which is larger than Wyoming’s and slightly less than Rhode Island’s, residents still lack “full” voting representation in Congress, the only capital in the industrialized world without such a right. . . .
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