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And the colonists. that is the current status of residents of washington, d.c. today. they pay taxes, but they have no voting representative in the federal government, and their best chance in years to rectify that injustice went kaput. d.c.'s nonvoting delegate polled a bill that would have given d.c. a vote in the house. even though democrats thought they might have been able to pass that bill this year, gun rights supporters attached to it what they call a poison pill amendment. that would have gutted d.c.'s locally passed gun laws. it was drafted by the nra. eleanor holmes norton would des...

This is philadelphia, city of brotherly love, where our founding fathers met, wrote, and signed the declaration of independence while the people they owned waited outside anxiously awaiting to hear the news about how that document was also going to give them their independence. philadelphia is already a majority minority city. what does that mean in reality? west philadelphia. some of you are already singing the song in your head. a majority black residential area where about half the businesses are black-owned. it's one of the most ethnically diverse sections of the city, and 52nd street is t...