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By GREG WALCHER

By GREG WALCHER

By GREG WALCHER

This month, voters in five counties of eastern Oregon voted to instruct local officials to take action to secede from Oregon, and join Idaho instead. Separatist movements are not especially

By GREG WALCHER People who inhabit real states have, for many years, made fun of those who think Washington, D.C. should be a state. The idea has been a laughing matter for years, among people who know the difference between states and cities. But once again, the idea is moving through the hallowed halls of Congress, the Constitution notwithstanding. Senators may need to be reminded of the differences between real states, and a city like Washington, D.C. Actually there is no city “like Washington, D.C.” since no other enjoys such generosity from the rest of the country. States are d...