Questioned Rights
Dear Mayor Fenty and Interim Attorney General Singer:
In the last issue of themail (http://www.dcwatch.com/themail/2007/07-03-11.htm),
I wrote that both of you, along with Mayor Williams and his Attorney
General, Robert Spagnoletti, should be blamed for the argument made by
the DC government both in the Parker and Seegars cases
that the Second Amendment to the Constitution does not apply to
residents of the District of Columbia, and that citizens of DC do not
and should not have all the rights of other citizens of the United
States. In the current issue of themail, Art Spitzer disagrees with me (http://www.dcwatch.com/themail/2007/07-03-14.htm#spitzer),
and writes that it’s not fair to attribute that view to either of you
because you have not filed any court papers espousing it. I, on the
other hand, believe that you should be held responsible for a legal
position taken by the DC government if you have not explicitly
repudiated it.
Therefore, I want to give you the opportunity to state whether you
believe that citizens of the District of Columbia do possess and are
entitled to protection under the Constitution equal to that granted to
all other citizens of the United States, and to full enjoyment of the
rights of citizenship protected in the Bill of Rights. If you do, will
you pledge to repudiate the argument made by the District of Columbia
under the Williams administration that DC citizens are not entitled to
any Second Amendment rights, and — should you seek rehearing or
Supreme Court review of the US Court of Appeals decision in Parker —
to abandon and refute that argument explicitly in any of your filings?
I look forward to your reply, and I promise to print your position in
a future issue of themail when I receive it.
Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com
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Fenty’s Way, and a Better Way, to Fix our
Schools
Jay Silberman, silbermans@aol.com
[City council testimony on Mayor Fenty’s school takeover plan] I
read from a Washington Post editorial: “The District public
school system is in a condition of crisis. In personnel and in plant, it
is inadequate to the pupil population it is supposed to serve. . . .
Washington’s children are being cheated . . . denied their educational
birthright.” The date? Not today, or yesterday. Not five years ago, or
ten, or twenty. The editorial is from November 23, 1955. There is an
ancient dictum from Hippocrates: “First, do no harm.” Frontiersman
David Crockett’s version was: “First, be sure you are right. Then go
ahead.”
Are you certain, absolutely sure, that the “District of Columbia
Public Education Reform Amendment Act of 2007,” Bill 17-0001 is right,
and will do no harm? You are a deliberative body; let’s deliberate on
this. Or, as the citizenry might glean from press reports and from some
of your statements, has the train already left the station? Is this bad
bill a done deal?
When the previous mayor, Mr. Williams, proposed what Mr. Fenty is now
proposing, Mr. Fenty criticized such a takeover of the schools. Mr.
Fenty had it right and well-reasoned the first time. Mr. Fenty did not
propose or advocate a takeover when he was running for mayor. His
education position paper — which was fairly good and for which I
complimented him when he knocked on my door — made no mention of any
plan or intent for a takeover. Only after the election did he announce
his change of mind. What changed his mind is not clear, or readily
apparent. He does say that he has acted because so many citizens, during
the campaign, urged that he “do something” to help boost the
schools. But that widespread desire for “doing something” to improve
schools doesn’t translate to “just do anything” and it absolutely
does not justify a plan-less, road-map-less, train-track-less seizure of
power or permanent rewrite of our government’s structure under the
home rule charter. [Full testimony online at http://www.dcpswatch.com/mayor/070220e.htm]
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School Board Candidate Martin Levine
Jeff Norman, jeffrey.norman@att.net
My friend, Martin Levine, is a candidate in the May 1 special
election to fill a vacancy on the DC Board of Education for District 2,
which covers Wards 3 and 4. He will work to bring meaningful, lasting
improvements in DC’s long-suffering public education system. Martin is
a native Washingtonian and a graduate of DC public schools. He has been
a student teacher in high school, a university professor, and an
education policy analyst. He has mentored students at a northeast high
school in DC and served on the Lafayette Elementary School Home and
School Association board. This is his second campaign for this seat.
When he ran in 2000, The Washington Post said: “Mr. Levine’s
more analytical approach to educational problems serves him well, too.
His solid foundation of knowledge would make him a valuable addition to
a board that needs a topflight prober.”
Martin will work full-time as a Board member to bring real change to
DC’s schools. On the Board he will: 1) Ensure that parents’ concerns
are heard and acted on promptly by holding frequent school meetings and
creating an interactive web site; 2) address unconscionable health and
safety defects in our schools, including fixing all bathrooms by opening
of schools in 2008; and 3) develop partnerships with civic
organizations, universities, and corporations so every school has
mentors, tutors, and curriculum enrichment available by 2008.
Martin looks forward to earning your trust and vote on May 1. You can
learn more about him and his views at Levine2007.com; and he can be
reached at Martin@Levine2007.com.
If you are a registered voter in either Ward 3 or Ward 4, please vote
for Martin Levine in the May 1 special election.
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Residents, Labor Reps Review DC Noise Fix
David Klavitter, klav at questforquiet.org
Led by Councilmembers Tommy Wells and Mary Cheh, representatives of
the H and 8th Street, NE, community and labor unions are reviewing
legislative language drafted by Acting Attorney General Linda Singer’s
office to fix the District of Columbia’s broken noise ordinance. The
action follows a January 30 meeting of the groups to address mutual
concerns in an effort to close the gaping loophole in the city noise
law. Added to the DC statute in 2004, the current language exempts from
city noise regulations noncommercial amplified speech anywhere in the
city between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Mayor Adrian Fenty said he
supports the noise fix.
This provision, of course, is a great benefit to those wishing to
express themselves freely — including Washington’s labor community.
However, H Street NE residents and businesses are held captive nearly
every Saturday by one unreasonable group’s amplifier, which blasts
noncommercial speech for more than four hours at decibels between 85 and
105 — levels that approach the volume of a rock concert. Labor leaders
have affirmed their cooperation with the H Street, NE, community and the
city to resolve the problem. The northeast residents and businesses are
unwavering in their support for free speech, assembly, and religion.
However, we also believe "every person is entitled to ambient noise
levels that are not detrimental to life to life, health, and enjoyment
of his or her property," as stated in the DC municipal code.
While every urban dweller must expect a certain amount of noise, the
issue of health and safety is of extreme concern. According to the
Environmental Protection Agency, “a 24-hour exposure level of 70
decibels as the level of environmental noise which will prevent any
measurable hearing loss over a lifetime. . . . Likewise, levels of 55
decibels outdoors and 45 decibels indoors are identified as preventing
activity interference and annoyance. These levels of noise are
considered those which will permit spoken conversation and other
activities such as sleeping, working and recreation, which are part of
the daily human condition.” Let’s urge the city council to craft a
solution which does not disturb either DC residents’ hearing or
speech. Learn more at http://www.questforquiet.org.
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Red Light and Speed Cameras, and Contracts
Clyde Howard ceohoward@hotmail.com
I have said it before and I will say it again, our DC government is
operated by total idiots. If brains were dynamite they couldn’t blow
their collective noses. How could they write a contract with a vender
that requires the vender to comply with certain requirements of the
contract, without having oversight authority and quality control. A
vender charged with the responsibility of maintaining parking meters and
traffic cameras that is not performing its job according to the contract
should be punished according to the penalty clauses contained in the
contract, provided the contracting officer was smart enough to have such
clauses in the contract. Likewise, the departments with oversight
authority should be dealt with accordingly. It just goes to show that
our government is focused on money and not on the upfront requirements
needed to assure that the source is maintained, which will keep a
constant flow of revenue into the coffers of the government. What do you
think will happen when Fenty’s marauding pals get their hands on the
lucrative contracts of the school system? If you believe that there will
be oversight and quality control on the contracts that their pals will
get, I have a Brooklyn Bridge to sell you.
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I must say that I do appreciate the MPD’s approach to community
policing and their quest to offer the public the opportunity to complete
a survey.
However, I am somewhat concerned that the survey did not make any
mention or offer any specific place for the community’s thoughts on
the rate of unsolved murders in our city. The fact that the MPD
continues to have a very poor performance rate in homicide closures.
With this being totally eliminated from the survey is it that the powers
that be within the MPD wish to sweep these statistics under the rug or
do they deem them not to be important?
After completing the survey I have written and asked for some
answers, one of which is merely who designed the survey.
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Fenty Not Responsible
for Ill-Advised Argument in Gun Control Case
Art Spitzer, artspitzer at aol dot com
Our esteemed editor and publisher writes that “two mayors of the
District of Columbia and their respective Attorneys General” made the
argument that “the District of Columbia is not a state, and should not
be treated as a state” in the Second Amendment-gun control case
decided by the federal court of appeals last week (themail, March 11).
It’s fair to blame Mayor Williams and his Attorney General for
making this ill-advised argument. They made it. But it’s not fair to
pin any blame on Mayor Fenty and his Attorney General. The briefs in
this case were filed many months before they took office. The case was
submitted to the court for decision in 2006. One cannot expect a new
administration to review the briefs already filed in pending cases,
checking to see if there’s something they don’t like. Holding Mayor
Fenty responsible for the contents of legal briefs filed before he took
office is like holding him responsible for David Rosenbaum’s death.
There will be additional papers filed in this case. The District of
Columbia is not required to continue pushing this argument just because
it did so earlier. If it does, that will be the time to blame Mayor
Fenty and Attorney General Singer.
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The District of Columbia is not a state, but it is a territory. The
Territory of the District of Columbia should not be confused as being
the City of Washington. The City of Washington is bounded by Florida
Avenue, or rather Boundary Avenue is the northern boundary of the
official City. On September 8, 1791, at a meeting in Georgetown, Thomas
Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and James Madison, then a
representative from Virginia, met the commissioners of the Federal City
at the request of George Washington. The subject of this meeting was the
“Name of City and Territory.” It was suggested by James Madison that
the name should be “the City of Washington and Territory of
Columbia.” On the next day, September 9, 1791, the commissioners wrote
to Maj. L’Enfant in Philadelphia that all agreed that the Federal
District shall be called “The Territory of Columbia and the Federal
City of Washington.” The name appeared officially with the sanction of
President George Washington, and he directed the commissioners to begin
sales of lots in the terms and conditions declared by Washington for
improvements in the City of Washington, dated October 17, 1791. The
legislature of Maryland on December 14, 1791, recognized the name in an
act concerning the Territory of Columbia and the City of Washington.
Were you aware that in 1871, there was a territorial form of
government that included a governor and eleven members appointed by the
president, confirmed by the Senate and the House. In 1874, the plan was
abolished and three commissioners were appointed by the President as a
provisional form of government. In 1878, a permanent form of government
was authorized by the President and Congress.
So please do not confuse the Territory of the District of Columbia
with the City of Washington, because they are separated by boundaries
yet governed by a single form of government, the mayor. Oh, there is one
more tidbit of information: once there was a Supreme Court for the
Federal City of Washington and the Territory of the District of
Columbia, just like the states.
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The emergent linkage of DC’s voting rights to the Second Amendment
produces a truly fascinating constitutional and legal dilemma. Our
courts, in the past few years, have cleverly tried to construct a Hobson’s
choice, both for Congress and for the District: Either the dignity of
congressional representation together with such onerous freedoms as the
individual right to keep and bear arms, or the indignity of being mere
colonists, able perhaps to avoid such obligations as ensuring the right
to bear arms or even paying federal taxes.
I’m all for dignity and gun slinging; it would be wonderful for us
to pursue the gun rights debate as full-fledged pistol-packing citizens,
along with the states. However, as long as we do reside in this
benighted colony, we might more creatively exploit our
extra-constitutional status. By conferring on DC a murky jurisdiction,
the courts are trying to do us a favor and give us a card to play. If we
go with the flow and push harder for exceptions to the general rules
(such as the Second Amendment or the Tax Code), we might finally put
some helpful pressure on Congress and persuade them to bring DC into the
fold. To date, we haven’t done enough in this direction.
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No Guns for DC
Joan Eisenstodt, jeisen@aol.com
I was in Oregon and Washington when the US Court of Appeals handed
down its decision. Outraged barely describes my emotions and those with
whom I spoke in those states, who could not comprehend how those who
live in DC were treated so strangely. On the one hand, the Court views
DC as a state; on the other, we are not. We have rights, it seems, to
kill each other -- or maybe the Court thought we would hunt the many
rats loose in the District — but not to have voting representation. I
agree: if we all are not outraged and speak up — on both issues — we
are not doing anything to proclaim our citizenship. How do we rally more
people to even think this is important and then to do something?
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This isn’t what some — perhaps most — people who know me would
expect me to say about Parker v. District of Columbia, but I
applaud the decision of the three-judge panel of the US District Court
of Appeals. I frankly suspect that either the full appeals court panel
will reverse this decision, upholding the DC handgun ban (among other
things), or the Supreme Court well reverse it if or when they get this
case. But I at least find some therapeutic benefit from having some
jurists finally agree with me that the DC handgun ban is what Winston
Churchill called the Versailles Treaty in 1919: malignant and silly.
The only people this law ever literally deterred were those
law-abiding citizens who, by definition, were law-abiding enough to
respect the law’s strictures in the first place. As a (now out of
business) gun shop owner once told me when we finished the paperwork on
a rifle purchase: “Now, I want you to realize that all of the
criminals will come in here and register their guns also.”
In the eighteen years before this silly and malignant law was passed,
only one legally-registered handgun in the District had been used in a
crime and that gun had been stolen from, and reported as stolen by, the
legal owner. Since this law has been in effect, we have had at least
four statistically significant crime waves during which DC rivaled
Detroit, Miami, and New Orleans as the unsolved homicide capital of this
country, and we may be on the cusp of a fifth wave with the general
deterioration in the local economy. Were these crime waves demonstrably
less severe or catastrophic in their effect on this city because all the
handguns used in those crimes were just as illegal as they would have
been anyway, had the 1976 handgun ban never been put into effect?
All that said, I do not applaud groups like the NRA, which, of
course, have a broader political agenda of their own that I do not agree
with, that came in at the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour to
support the Parker plaintiffs. Because, we wouldn’t have had to wait
this long to get a definitive ruling overturning this law, if they had
used the correct arguments in the first court challenges of this handgun
ban back in 1977 and 1978, instead of the racist argument they did use
(that the home rule government here didn’t have the authority to pass
the law in the first place.)
The most dispositive constitutional argument against this kind of law
was not — and is not — whatever we can finally agree as a society
the Second Amendment actually says about a citizen’s’ right to keep
and bear arms. (Good book on the subject: A Well Regulated Militia).
The most telling constitutional rebuttal of any broad-brush law like
this is that it is founded on an irrebuttable presumption. By saying
that no DC resident could ever register any handgun at any time for any
reason, this law creates an insurmountable disability that no DC
citizen, no matter how law biding and sterling his or her public conduct
is, can ever overcome. Whatever courts have or have not said in the past
about the Second Amendment, they have been far clearer and far more
consistent that the state — any state — can only impose irrebuttable
presumptions on citizens when there is a compelling and substantially
permanent state purpose that is served by doing so. Where I, as an
African-American, actually find the racism in all this is in the
somewhat racially colored presumption that there is a compelling and
city interest in permanently disabling over 300,000 otherwise
law-abiding adult residents with regards to their right to own a
handgun.
I could run on and on, but I think the core arguments have already
been presented. And, clearly, they were placed before this three-judge
panel far better than I just have. Suffice it to say that, although in
the long run I have no doubt that this law will somehow survive in
substantially its present malignant and silly form, I at least find this
present victorious skirmish some short-term comfort.
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CLASSIFIEDS — EVENTS
Solidarity with Oaxaca Fundraiser, March 16
Andrew Willis, willisa at gmail dot com
There will be a fundraiser for the ASAR-O Artists Collective and CASA
Chapulin, Solidarity with Oaxaco: Art and Music Celebrating Popular
Struggle, on Friday, March 16, at 7 p.m., at the Universalist National
Memorial Church, 1810 16th Street, NW (at S Street, NW, near the Dupont
Circle and U Street Metros). Admission will be $5-$10 on a sliding
scale.
Celebrating and supporting the struggle for democracy in the Mexican
state of Oaxaca initiated by Section 22 of the Mexican teachers’ union
and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)., the fundraiser
will feature an exhibit and art sale of original prints and stencils
from the ASAR-O artists’ collective in Oaxaca, and T-shirts by local
artist Amauta Ollantay Marston-Firmino; video footage from the recent
popular mobilizations, and revolutionary Salvadoran music by La Nueva
Cosecha. La Nueva Cosecha of the Asociacion Cultura Milpa is a
multigenerational group that make use of a variety of traditional
instruments including donkey’s jawbone, cajon, Andean pan pipes, kena,
accordion, and violin in addition to guitar, percussion, etc.
There will also be refreshments, food, and dancing. ASAR-O is a
collective of artists dedicated to making accessible popular art that
reflects the demands and vision of the popular struggle in Oaxaca. Using
art as a tool of resistance, the artists face serious repression. As
recently as January 22, one member of the collective was arrested for
drawing in public, beaten and jailed; he has since been released, but
threats of repression and violence continue. CASA Chapulin (Colectivos
de Apoyo, Solidaridad y Acción) is an international solidarity
organization supporting local autonomous struggles in Oaxaca, Chiapas
and the US. All funds raised will go to the ASAR-O artists’ collective
to support their work, maintain a new multi-use studio space and
establish a new youth training program and the solidarity work of CASA.
Sponsored by CASA, Asociacion Cultura Milpa, and Left Turn. Contact:
willisa [at] gmail [dot] com or visit http://www.colectivocasa.org/oaxacaresiste.
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DC Public Library Events, March 16-17
Randi Blank, randi.blank@dc.gov
Friday, March 16, 12:00 p.m., Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial
Library, 901 G Street, NW, Great Hall. The Morehouse College Glee Choir
presents a concert in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, March 17, 12:00-4:00 p.m., Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood
Library, 3660 Alabama Avenue, SE. Chili cook-off, book and bake sale.
The ninth annual event is cosponsored with the Friends of Francis A.
Gregory Library. Participants can sample several chili recipes provided
by the Friends. Donated books and bake goods will be on sale. All ages.
Call 645-4297 for more information.
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The Friends of the Cleveland Park Library will hold their annual
Spring Book Sale on Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18, at the
Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue at Macomb Street, NW,
from noon to 4:00 p.m. each day (one block south of Cleveland Park Metro
red line).
We have thousands of almost new and "previously owned"
books, ranging from recent bestsellers to out-of-print treasures,
fiction and nonfiction. Most books are priced at $1.00 for hard covers,
$.50 for paperbacks. Paperback mysteries, romances, and science fiction,
as well as children’s paperbacks, and foreign language books are
priced at $.10 each. We also have lots of “special” items — coffee
table books, large format art books, etc., that are individually priced.
And yes, we have CD’s, tapes (music and books, and videos, as well as
some sheet music. All items have been donated by our neighbors and sale
proceeds benefit our branch library.
Please note, we ask that no books be donated this week prior to the
sale. We’re busy setting up and can’t deal with new donations. For
more information, contact Nathalie Black at nvblack@earthlink.net
or 362-3599.
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National Building Museum Events, March 17, 19
Lauren Searl, lsearl@nbm.org
Saturdays, March 17-May 12, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m. Students between the
ages of 12 and 18 are invited to join the Museum’s Design
Apprenticeship Program (DAP) for this special semester during which
participants will design and construct theater scenery for use by actors
from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Participants will expand their art
and design abilities as they engage in this hands-on project. Free. For
an application, contact Outreach Programs at 272-2448, ext. 3301 or dap@nbm.org.
Monday, March 19, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Film: Chicago: City of the Big
Shoulders. The multi-part PBS series Edens Lost and Found highlights
practical solutions to improve the environment and quality of life in
cities, for ourselves and future generations. This sixty-minute episode
(2006) focuses on Chicago’s commitment to open space and sustainable
design as it becomes a laboratory for green architecture in the United
States. This film is presented as part of the DC Environmental Film
Festival. $5 Museum members and students; $10 nonmembers. Prepaid
registration is required. Walk-in registration based on availability.
For festival information, visit http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org.
Special rate for NBM members: $10 for all three Environmental Film
Festival screenings. Sign up at http://www.nbm.org.
At the National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW, Judiciary Square
stop, Metro Red Line.
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ACLU Documentary Screening, March 19
Elizabeth Rose, Lrose@dcaclu.org
The American Civil Liberties Union will hold a screening of “Larry
v. Lockney,” a documentary about Larry Tannahill, the Texas farmer who
successfully sued his sons’ school district for requiring mandatory
drug testing of high school students. Tannahill, whom the ACLU
represented, will be speaking after the film, along with ACLU Drug Law
Reform Project Director Graham Boyd and "Larry v. Lockney"
Co-Producer Jim Schermbeck. ACLU Washington Legislative Office Director
Caroline Fredrickson will introduce the film. No tickets are required,
but reservations are strongly encouraged.
Monday, March 19, 6 p.m., University of the District of Columbia
School of Law, 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Building 39, Room 201.
Contact the ACLU of the National Capital Area for questions and
reservations at 457-0800. For more information about mandatory drug
testing, visit the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project:
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Workshop on DC Neighborhood History, March 28
Matthew Gilmore, dchist@hotmail.com
For anyone interested in the history of the District and its
neighborhoods, Matthew Gilmore, coeditor of H-DC, a Washington, DC,
history discussion list and web site, will be offering a workshop for
doing neighborhood history offering historical background, research
techniques, and describing the sources. The workshop will take place in
the Washingtoniana Division of the DC Public Library, 901 G Street, NW,
Room 307, on March 28 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. A tour of the division
will follow and a chance to work with some of the sources discussed.
Mr. Gilmore, formerly a staff member of the Washingtoniana Division,
will highlight the variety of tools and sources (maps, microfilm, books)
available for documenting neighborhoods in Washington, DC, both in the
Washingtoniana Division itself and at a number of other institutions
throughout the city. Mr. Gilmore has been offering workshops since 1997.
For a peek at some of the sources discussed, check out: http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/neighNew4.pdf.
This is the first in an ongoing series of workshops which will also
cover with building and family history. The workshop is free, but
registration is requested and limited to twenty people. For more
information, to register, and to indicate your neighborhood of interest,
please E-mail dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu.
The Martin Luther King Library is at 901 G Street, NW, and the
Washingtoniana Division on the third floor in room 307. The phone number
for the Division is 727-1213.
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David Vladeck and Judge Pat Wald at UDC, March
29
Joe Libertelli, jlibertelli@udc.edu
Please join us for the first annual Mary Hynes/Beth Goodman lecture,
Thursday, March 29. Reception at 5:30 p.m., program at 6-7:30 p.m.
Speaker, David Vladeck; honoree, Judge Pat Wald. At the UDC David Clarke
School of Law, Building 38, 2nd Floor, Window Room. Free of charge.
RSVP: Jlibertelli@udc.edu.
This is the first annual Mary Hynes-Beth Goodman Memorial Lecture and
award ceremony. Mary taught in the Juvenile and Special Education Law
Clinic at the UDC Clarke School of Law. Beth, an Antioch School of Law
graduate and a leading special education attorney, was one of the
founders of COPAA — the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates.
David Vladeck, Georgetown Law professor and former director of the
Public Citizen Litigation Group, was the parents’ attorney in the 2006
Murphy case in the US Supreme Court.
We will be honoring Judge Pat Wald, recognizing (among other things)
her instrumental role in the creation of federal special education law.
We will also be kicking off our campaign to raise money for law students
to work during the summer of 2007 as Hynes-Goodman Fellows in child
advocacy organizations. So, please contact Joe Tulman at JTulman@udc.edu
if you are interested in having one of our law students work in your
organization this summer and also, please consider making a financial
contribution to this effort!
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CLASSIFIEDS — HOUSING
Artist Needs Housing for March 20-24
Joan Eisenstodt, jeisen@aol.com
A friend, a former NEA Fellow in Washington state, asked me to see if
I could find housing for a colleague who is going to be in DC for a
conference and to lobby for the arts. He’s arriving on March 20. He’s
glad, I hear, to sleep on a couch or floor, is polite and clean and
nice, and just needs a nonsmoking place where he can stay — near Metro
and/or downtown — for three to four nights. Please contact him
directly: Wes Andrews, E-mail wes@kpcenter.org.
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Furnished Home for Rent, Chevy Chase, DC
Philip Greene, pgreene@doc.gov
Three to four bedrooms, 2.5 bath, lovely wooded setting in Rock Creek
Park, near Chevy Chase Circle and Friendship Heights shopping and Metro,
steps to Metrobus, very nice home and neighbors. Big, recently
modernized kitchen with family room and breakfast area attached. Air
conditioning, central heat, fireplace, screened porch, patio, fenced in
yard with playset/swings. Finished basement family room. Wireless
broadband capable. No pets, no smoking. Renter pays utilities. Great for
a family or individuals. Available mid-April to either September or end
of December 2007. Photos on request. $2750 per month.
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CLASSIFIEDS — FOR SALE
A rare opportunity indeed! A complete set of forty-four original GM
Hopkins from 1887. These forty-four maps document each and every square
inch of today’s Washington, DC, boundaries and show buildings,
construction material, paving, etc., in each of the hand colored maps.
These are rare indeed, and the eBay auction is for the complete, entire
set of forty-four maps. They are large in size, measuring nearly 2x3
feet. See eBay auction item No 150100416409, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150100416409.
This auction closes on Monday, March 19.
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Great deal: 2006 Bayliner 185 BR Runabout, $12,800. Excellent
condition; used only five times for two hours each time. This boat is
still like it was in the showroom; brand new. Bought from the showroom
of a Baltimore dealer in April 2006.
I’m selling because I would like to invest in a wheelchair
accessible boat. It comes with many customized extras, including a new
galvanized trailer, freshly painted bottom, bow cover, stern cover,
Bimini top, depth finder, radio, CD stereo, speakers, topnotch life
jackets, complete top-of-the-line Coast Guard approved safety products,
extra bright flares, and six super guard fenders. Call Erica, 333-0262.
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