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The federal takeover has roiled the city's always testy political waters, inspiring loud public protests. So loud that Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's nonvoting representative in Congress, did an about-face: after first calling the deal a "big win," she denounced it as "too high a price." Meanwhile...
Holmes Real Estate Trust proposed to tear down the Carl Barron Plaza building--home to well-known small businesses including Emily Rose Shoppe Inc., the Lucy Parsons Center and Wiener Discount Tobacco--and replace it with an 11-story structure housing residential apartments and retail stores. Holmes has not yet...
But not all residents oppose the Holmes project. Last month, routine elections of the Central Square Neighborhood Coalition (CSNC) devolved into an ongoing leadership dispute when members of SCS attended a CSNC meeting and elected an alternate board of directors. Currently, two groups claim to be the CSNC. The original...
Neither officials from Holmes Realty Trust not their attorney, James J. Rafferty, returned repeated phone calls.
If the most basic function of government is to secure the liberty and property of the governed, a government that can't even implement the rule of law is hardly worthy of the name. So, at least, writes Stephen Holmes in his American Prospect article "What Russia Teaches Us Now...