07-02-2025
Home rule is under threat again. This time it's different.
If 'fair warning is fair play' — an old King playground idiom — then this week's introduction of the Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident Act to repeal the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 should come as no surprise. Goodness knows, warning notices have been posted via this column in recent years. True, anti-home rule bills have been dropped in the hopper on the Hill before, only to die in committee. This time around, however, conditions are different, and dangerously so.
