RONALD REAGAN SIGNED THE KING HOLIDAY BILL, AND A BIPARTISAN CONGRESS VOTED TO OVERRIDE PRESIDENT REAGAN’S VETO OF THE COMPREHENSIVE SOUTH AFRICAN ANTI-APARTHEID ACT. I WAS THERE FOR BOTH.

The time for D.C. Statehood is now. I gave a quarter of a century of my life as a staff person for Congress, and I can tell you, the environment for passing the King Holiday Bill, after years of trying, was comparable to today’s environment. President Reagan repeatedly said Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Communist, and he would not sign the Bill.…  

WHAT WILL ASPIRING ATHLETES, LIKE MY GRANDCHILDREN LEGEND AND REVA DO IF THERE IS NO REAL CHANCE FOR NIL MONEY (NAME, IMAGE AND LIKENESS)?

CONTRARY TO A POPULAR, LOCAL MISCONCEPTION, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DOES NOT LEAD THE NATION IN RATS. IN FACT, WASHINGTON, D.C. IS NOT EVEN IN THE TOP TEN AMONG CITIES. WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH LEXUS?

There are more rats in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, and Hartford, Connecticut than there are in Washington, D.C. Those are the top five cities. Baltimore is number six. The District of Columbia is not even among the top ten!

What does that have to do with the Lexus Automobile, primarily made in Japan, although some are made in America and Canada.…