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Five Monuments Erected Before the MLK, Jr....

In her post about the furor surrounding a truncated Martin Luther King, Jr. quote on his newly opened memorial, City Desk blogger Shani Hilton details “five of the more dubious monuments, which somehow managed to be created and dedicated before the civil rights leader got his due recognition”: Andrew Jackson, the seventh president. Jackson holds position on a statue near the White...

Aug 31st

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Aug 31st

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Gawker Inadvertently Declares D.C. the Best Place...

Discarded because of a centuries-old constitutional oversight, the District of Columbia trumps the 50 states in Gawker’s silly, self-congratulatory geographic rankings. A list of the “Worst 50 States in America”? Put us down at No. 51, with an asterisk. -How we didn’t make it on Gawker’s list and why that is awesome. Photo by Darrow Montgomery

Aug 30th

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“One guy, who introduced himself at an ANC meeting last night by saying...”

– Lydia DePillis on the fight in Georgetown about how residents should be represented. Can money buy you representation?

Aug 30th

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