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Ian Thomas writes in the Current Newspapers how statehood is becoming a major issue in the race for D.C. Delegate as Douglas Sloan, a Ward 4 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, challenges Eleanor Holmes Norton who has held the position for 20 years.
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In the June 10, 2010 edition of the Washington Post, Mike DeBonis writes that "(w)ith a seven-year effort to win a House of Representatives vote for the District now foundering, officials and activists are starting to wonder how to proceed with the city's decades-long fight for congressional representation. The answer that's emerging, in candidate forums this campaign season and in the city budget, is an old one: statehood."
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D.C. Statehood activist Timothy Cooper related in the January 1, 2001 edition of online newsletter The Mail the interesting story about how Nevada became a state. The Civil War, slavery, and the Comstock Lode played significant parts.
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The Washington Post reported that on January 24, 1985 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) reintroduced legislation to make the District of Columbia a state.
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Samuel Jordan, D.C. lawyer, human rights activist and former Chair of the D.C. Statehood Party, analyzes the problems with the Davis voting rights bill and outlines the road to statehood for the District of Columbia at a Stand Up! for Democracy in D.C. Forum at UDC on November 18, 2006.
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