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This map shows the federal land that would be excluded if D.C. became the 51st state. (Courtesy District of Columbia Office of Planning)
The long-standing dream of D.C. statehood took one step closer to reality Thursday when the House passed Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s HR 51 bill.
Now, as it faces a difficult battle for passage in the Senate, D.C. leaders are renewing their rallying cries.
“Today’s victory was historic, both for D.C. residents and for the cause of D.C. statehood,” said Norton, who has championed statehood for her entire life. “For only the second time in history, the House passed the D.C. statehood bill. With Democrats in control of the Senate and White House, and with 54% of Americans supporting the bill, we have never been in a better position to achieve D.C. statehood.”
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The founders of grassroots food delivery service DC To-GoGo are pulling the plug on their platform less than a year after they first went public with their plans. At least for now.
Chris Powers,
Josh Saltzman, who also own Shaw dive bar Ivy and Coney, sought to compete with the mammoth companies that have monopolized the national market.
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Companies from Amazon to Uber contributed large sums to Biden s $61 million haul.
Companies like Uber and Lockheed Martin opened up their checkbooks for Joe Biden’s inaugural committee, helping him raise more than $61 million. | Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images
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Joe Biden campaigned on raising taxes on companies and the wealthy. It didn t dissuade some of America s biggest companies and richest donors from helping to fund his inauguration.
Many of them opened up their checkbooks for Biden’s inaugural committee, helping him raise more than $61 million to fund his largely virtual festivities.
The list included companies with major business before the federal government on everything from taxes to regulations such as Uber, Lockheed Martin, Comcast, AT&T, Bank of America, Pfizer and Qualcomm, all of which gave the maximum $1 million.
Bipartisan Coalition of AGs Call on Congress to Pass NO HATE Act
Letter: “As Attorneys General, we are on the frontlines of protecting public safety and ensuring that everyone in our jurisdiction can live their lives free of hate and discrimination” By Josh Kaul - Apr 13th, 2021 02:52 pm
MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General
Josh Kaul is part of a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general urging Congress to pass the bipartisan Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act, which would provide state and local governments and law enforcement agencies with the tools and resources to understand, identify, and report hate crimes and, as a result, help prevent them.