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HARRIET HAGEMAN: HOW I BEAT LIZ CHENEY. Harriet Hageman is the environmental lawyer who defeated incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney by a landslide in Wyoming's much-watched Republican House primary. Hageman, who will surely trounce token Democratic opposition in the general election, is now getting ready to take office. She was in Washington this week — not for that preparation but to argue in a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over its disastrous actions causing the Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado in 2015. That's the kind of thing she does in her life as a lawyer.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has banned nearly 60 percent of the city's black residents from bars, gyms, concerts, theaters, and more.

The political battle is on to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state.

Commentary: Sens. King, Collins should give D.C. residents the same rights as Mainers People who live in the nation’s capital lack not only voting representation in Congress but also sovereignty over local affairs. By Anna KellarSpecial to the Press Herald Share The essence of democracy is the idea that the people govern themselves. That the people are the source of power. That those who serve do so with the consent of the governed. That the people have the right to be heard, to call for redress when necessary, to petition the government, to vote and be counted. Related

Georgetown University Title: As House Votes to Approve DC Statehood, Georgetown Continues to Support Effort Date Published: April 23, 2021 Share This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 51, a bill to advance statehood for the District of Columbia. Introduced by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (H’18), the “bill provides for admission into the United States of the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of the territory of the District of Columbia.” Georgetown President John J. DeGioia expressed the institution’s deep commitment to stateh...