History continues to remind and teach us that there is a time when things simply need to change for whatever reasons. Unfortunately, these changes many times confound sanity and cause destructions that could have easily been avoided if common sense only prevailed.

Presently here in the District of Columbia we are definitely faced with this situation which fortunately does not incur physical upheaval. What is does reaffirm is an active presence in the U.S. House of Representatives is sorely needed to raise the voices of our people under the eyes and weapons of multiple police forces.

In other words, to be blunt: it is time for Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton to retire at the end of her current term.

Her service to all the people of the nation’s capital has been extraordinary, especia

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