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How come the words Washington DC are together? Why do we have District of Columbia after our nation's capital?In the USA, it is customary to write the name of a city and then the name of the state in which that city is located. The state appears immediately after the city name.Of course, this custom is not always observed. When a particular city is extremely well-known and probably does not have its name duplicated elsewhere — think Albuquerque, Chicago, or New Orleans, for instance — then the state might well be omitted.On the other hand, “Portland” pretty much has to specify the state after the city name, in order to distinguish Portland, Maine from Portland, Oregon. Similarly with “Springfield,” a city name that exists in a very large number of states.What about “Washington”? The first president of the USA, George Washington, is a very popular figure in American history. Many things in the USA are named for Washington, including the state of Washington in the Pacific Northwest, as another commentator has pointed out.In particular, a lot of states contain a city named Washington, including (among others) Pennsylvania, Indiana, Alabama, and Arkansas. That being the case, there is good reason to include “DC” after the city name “Washington,” in order to distinguish the national capital city from these other cities — and also to distinguish it from the state in the Pacific Northwest.Of course, the District of Columbia is not exactly a state. But in this discussion, it serves the same function as a state name. One might compare “Washington, DC” to “San Juan, PR” — Puerto Rico is not a state, but it is a geographical name that serves the same purpose as a state when identifying where San Juan is located.

What remains of the District of Columbia (approximately 68 square miles) was never a part of Virginia. This land was ceded by Maryland (c. 1790) to create the new Federal District. The remaining 32 square miles of the original Federal District came from Virginia and is now known as Arlington County, Virginia (although some parts of the present Alexandria City were included.).Arlington County as a county of DC was originally named Alexandria County and the name was changed to Arlington in 1920.In the 1840’s, Congress returned the former Virginia area to the Commonwealth. There were several factors: (a) Congress had adopted a policy of never erecting a Federal Building for national government south of the Potomac. This didn’t sit well with residents who in the referendum had voted to become a part of DC and looked forward to economic growth and development as a part of the Federal District. (b) The District did not like the cost of providing services (policing, etc.) south of the Potomac. (c) Lastly the debate over slavery was evolving in the nation and this too became a factor for retrocession.Regarding the idea that current DC residents may wish to obtain congressional status by being included in the voting to elect Senators and Representatives from Maryland, there is no desire that I have ever heard among the DC residents to obtain congressional representation in this way. I don’t believe that idea was ever floated on Capitol Hill.“Is there a recognition by not being a part of a state?” The movement for congressional representation or statehood or its equivalent is premised upon being its own unique jurisdiction and a political subdivision of any particular state. This was the Founders intention: that the Federal District not be a part of any particular state.

Do your research beforehand to find things here that peak your interest. Once you get here, ask locals in restaurants, transit system, etc what their faves are.Get a SmarTrip card (SmarTrip® | WMATA) — you can do so in advance. It will allow you to ride the bus (MetroBus) and train (MetroRail/subway). Determine how long you’re going to stay and how you plan on traveling to different sites before you load money on your card. It may be more advantageous for you to get a weekly rail or bus pass instead. Almost all the local transit systems in the suburbs of DC (Fairfax, VA, PG County the Bus, etc) take SmarTrip cards.If you wanted to go to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore (or your flying in/out of BWI Airport), you can take the MARC train (MARC Fares | Maryland Transit Administration) there and pal around for a few hours and then head back to DC.I say the best time of year to come would be April/May…. Its not blazing hot/humid yet. The cherry blossoms are spectacular around the Tidal Basin.

It’s a trickier question than most people think. Generally when the government shrinks employees the number of contractors goes up. Why? The workload doesn’t change. Unlike a private business that can shut down a division because sales are down, everything the government does is set in law. So unless there is literally an act of Congress the same work needs to get done. It’s just a question of whether a government employee or contract is doing the work.But besides that, there is also a thriving private sector that many people are unaware of. The headquarters of many companies are in the DC area. For example, many hotel companies (Hilton, Marriott, Choice and many others). Nestle has it’s HQ. There has long been a big tech presence. Much of the internet infrastructure was built there. AOL had its start in the DC area.

Get a subway map. www,wmata, comMost of the more famous tourist sites are accessible by the subway. You'll save yourself the hassle of trying to get a parking space and get to see washingtonians, both native and transplanted, in our natural splendor *koff, koff*See if you can befriend a native. We can take you to the places where the tour buses don't go, including at hours when they don't run, such as Haines Point at night, to see The Awakening-- great statue on the Potomac river, and Dumbarton Oaks.

The thing is, the cost of selling is really high - it’s very close to 8%. That means that you’ll pay real estate brokers in the area of 5%, lawyers, taxing authorities, title insurers and others somewhere in the area of $32,000 for the privilege of selling this condo. That’s a hidden extra cost of $8000 per year. That’s an extra $750/month. YOu’re not going to write a check for that, but it will just disappear when you sell your condo.So, let’s take the case where you sell it for what you bought it for, instead of costing you the roughly $1500 you think it’s going to cost, it has really cost you $2700.That’s one expensive apartment. I hope it’s real nice.Over that time period, you’re almost always better renting. There are other advantages to renting: you can leave on 30 days notice; the landlord has most of the major worries; no maintenance costs, no special assessments, no condo fees; no waiting for the house to sell.The the average time on the market to sell a house these days is about 10 days, it has averaged 3.5 months over the last 30 years. The market won’t always be like this. So, when your four years are up, it may take a few months to sell. That’s added aggravation and cost.All in all, renting is starting to look pretty good.

The majority of the diaspora do not support the politics surrounding the Civil War, let alone what appears to be mainly economic migrants from Sri Lanka pretending to be refugees fleeing minor human rights violations.I am against accepting such people. I think they should be deported and that Canada should adopt a policy akin to Australia’s policy. I disagree that the human rights violations are exceptional enough for us to accept them.The reason there are so many asylum seekers might be cultural. The country scores low in terms of passport power, and economic-related suicide is exceptionally high on the island, so I’m not surprised at the imagery.

Ah. You’re talking about when reporters used their feet and their brains rather than staring at a computer. They tracked down stories using planes, trains, cars and shoe leather. There was also a maximum on how many television and radio stations one company could own. National news came out of New York and was fed to their affiliates throughout the country. That still exists with national news coming from ABC, CBS, and NBC. Local news usually runs before and after national.Read about Ernie Pyle, who was a war correspondent during WWII, and Walter Cronkite, who also did some war coverage but was the man to watch every evening in American homes. This was when showing ones politics was never, ever acceptable so news was actual news…not opinion. The two I mentioned were at the top of their game but there are many others.The other way small newssignNows got news to print is how they still get it: Associated Press and Reuter’s. Since computers had not made an entrance, a ticker type set up via wire* so news could get out quickly.*think Western Union type machines that were in every newsroom around the country.