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DC isn’t capable of electing competent leaders. I think it should lose all control of its affairs.

Some days (not all) I agree with you. Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different outcomes, and 50 years of home rule has shown me that the District is incompetently inept at its own self-governance.

I thought with Tony Williams and Adrian Fenty we had turned a leaf but we've regressed a lot in the last decade.[/quote]

Yep.  Exactly this.   Most of the renaissance of the city is attributable to Tony Williams.  Adrian kept it going (though he had his corrupt pay-to-pay cronies).  We have been backsliding since.  Millennials do not remember when 14th between U and Logan was boarded up businesses, prostitutes and drug dealers, but I do.  Or H Street---another boarded up strip.  Union Market was the old Eckington wholesale district selling hot dogs in bulk to the roach coach carts on the National Mall (there were certainly no food trucks then).  Most residents west of Rock Creek Park sent their kids to private school past elementary (and many even refused to send their kids to public elementary).   The elementary schools on Capitol Hill were non-performing.    [/quote]

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