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<item><title><![CDATA[ Painful Dilemma For a Friend of Rosa Parks's ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503055.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503055.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ During more than 15 years as an aide to Rosa Parks, Ella McCall Haygan received a veritable roomful of mementos from the late civil rights icon. The gifts, which Haygan keeps at her home in Prince George's County, include autographed books and photographs, an autographed, limited-edition drawing of Parks with Martin Luther King Jr., a bracelet and a hair comb. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Painful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parks's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosa Parks]]></category><category><![CDATA[African Methodist Episcopal Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Steele]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guernsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development Endowment Trust Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Shedding the Shackles of the Past for the Promises of What Today and Tomorrow Hold ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803991.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803991.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JAMESTOWN, Va. Just beyond the remains of a Confederate military earthwork, past the site of the first English settlement in the New World, you come to the James River -- where the first Africans arrived on these shores as slaves. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Shedding]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shackles]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Past]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Promises]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tomorrow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charleston (South Carolina)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Foner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Tidewater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbados]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellis Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goree Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statue of Liberty]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Win for U.S. Swimmers and Black Children, Too ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202906.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202906.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Whew, that was close. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Win]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swimmers]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cullen Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Lezak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Phelps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Grevers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alain Bernard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Ervin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elliott Almond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garrett Weber-Gale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Bronx]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nike Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The McClatchy Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Mercury News]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA Swimming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Painful Dilemma For a Friend of Rosa Parks's ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503055.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503055.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ During more than 15 years as an aide to Rosa Parks, Ella McCall Haygan received a veritable roomful of mementos from the late civil rights icon. The gifts, which Haygan keeps at her home in Prince George's County, include autographed books and photographs, an autographed, limited-edition drawing of Parks with Martin Luther King Jr., a bracelet and a hair comb.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923805998" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923805998" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Painful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parks's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosa Parks]]></category><category><![CDATA[African Methodist Episcopal Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Steele]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guernsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development Endowment Trust Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mosquito Hunter As Role Model ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902045.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902045.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tyrone Harrison works a summer job as a mosquito control technician for the Maryland Department of Agriculture. For eight hours a day, he searches out stagnant water in woods and along roadsides where mosquitoes are likely to breed, notes the locations and eradicates the pests. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mosquito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Role]]></category><category><![CDATA[Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tyrone Harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet Silverado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's Community College]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Street Corner Analysis of D.C. Crime ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202795.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202795.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Driving through the District's Trinidad neighborhood the other night, I stopped to chat with three young men who were hanging out not far from where 13-year-old Alonzo Robinson was shot to death early Saturday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Derrick Wood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alonzo Robinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Holbrook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yvette M. Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[AK-47 Assault Rifle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Killer Ideas For Selling Guns in D.C. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802907.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802907.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Now that District residents can legally keep handguns, prospective gun dealers will need creative ways to target them. Based on my survey of gun shops nationwide, I suggest they start with a catchy name. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Killer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grenada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crispus Attucks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gold N Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guns N Stuff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inglewood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kailua]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nat Turner]]></category><category><![CDATA[New London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oak Lawn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Black Leaders, Too, Should Be Accountable in Jail Death ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102584.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102584.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A young black man suspected in the death of a white police officer turns up dead in his jail cell, an apparent victim of strangulation. Echoes of racism and revenge killing reverberate through Prince George's County, which has a history of tension between black residents and white law enforcement officials. The suspicion among many blacks -- based on historical precedent -- is that a white jail guard killed Ronnie White, 19, to avenge the death of Prince George's Cpl. Richard S. Findley, 39, who was run down last week by a pickup truck allegedly driven by the accused.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923810297" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923810297" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leaders,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Should]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accountable]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronnie White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn F. Ivey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category><category><![CDATA[June Dillard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard S. Findley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack B. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence J. Hogan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Lou McDonough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melvin High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Horan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upper Marlboro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vernon Herron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayne K. Curry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Place Where Troubled Kids Can Turn Their Lives Around ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401321.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401321.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ They were sent to the Foundation School in Largo as a last resort. Nobody else could handle them, let alone figure out why they were so disturbed. Some had even been expelled from pre-kindergarten because teachers could not get them to be quiet or stay in their seats or stop picking on their peers. They scowled at classmates and cursed their teachers, always bucking for a fight. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Place]]></category><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troubled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Around]]></category><category><![CDATA[Addys Karunaratne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foundation School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Largo (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Army National Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Road to Manhood Isn't Easy Street ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702414.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702414.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Man up, Ernest Parker. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Easy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frances Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ernest Parker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Safeway Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Shining a Harsh Light On Trinidad Neighborhood ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002707.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002707.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was a warm afternoon in the District's Trinidad neighborhood, and a group of boys was walking shirtless in the streets, some with pants hanging down below their behinds. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Shining]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinidad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neighborhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willie Dorn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Sheffey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ How a Beef Turns Into A Death ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303262.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303262.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Looking over some of the homicide cases tried in D.C. Superior Court recently, I noticed that the word "argument" appears a lot.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923811969" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923811969" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beef]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamel Mackabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Goleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Lynch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angela Stevenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyattsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Tony Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taleshia A. Ford]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hard-Line Drug Law Threatens a Pillar of the Community ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052703153.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052703153.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When D.C. police allegedly found a small amount of marijuana in her grandson's bedroom last year, Frances Johnson had to take the rap with him. As a tenant in a federally subsidized apartment, she is subject to eviction for any criminal act that occurs under her roof -- whether she knows about it or not. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hard-Line]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Threatens]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pillar]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ernest Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frances Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat O'Donnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Housing Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[NDC Realty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Becker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wiltshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Legal Aid Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Polls Yield Tricky Answers on Race ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001595.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001595.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Question: In deciding your vote for president today, was the race of the candidate the single most important factor, one of several important factors, or not an important factor? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tricky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Answers]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Mokrzycki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edison Media Research Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitofsky International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From Many Points of View, Statue Is True to King's Image ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302780.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302780.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I took a photograph of the proposed Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue to the Tidal Basin yesterday and asked tourists and other passersby what they thought about it. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose approval the memorial needs, has sharply criticized the sculpture. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[Points]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[View,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[True]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[King's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Image]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony McCoy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Fitch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Dalton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Jackson Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael McGill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Van Cleve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jefferson Memorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Williamson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin (Texas)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin Bartley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fine Arts Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Memorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Capital Planning Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Park Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Commission of Fine Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Out of Their Tents, Onto Our Porches ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602676.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602676.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A couple of weeks ago, dozens of caterpillars began showing up at my home in Fort Washington. They shimmied to the doors, crawled up the walls and camped out on the welcome mats. My daughter wanted to know when they would turn into butterflies, imagining a sky filled with exotic species like those on display at Smithsonian's Butterfly Conservatory.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923816734" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923816734" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tents,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Onto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Our]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porches]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael J. Raupp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathan Erwin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garden Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Street Talk and Testimony Aren't the Same Thing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401784.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401784.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When 14-year-old DeOnté Rawlings was shot and killed in the Washington Highlands public housing complex seven months ago, various accounts of the incident were spread by residents who claimed to have witnessed it. But when investigators for the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI asked for eyewitnesses to come forward, no one did. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testimony]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aren't]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Same]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thing]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Haskell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Clay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[DeOnte Rawlings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory Kendall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter E. Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florence Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homeowners Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Homeowner Helped; Many More in Need ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902621.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902621.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Henry Coleman Washington has worked hard for most of his life. As a boy growing up in Charles County, he tended a vegetable garden that provided food for the family table. During his teenage years, he earned money as a neighborhood handyman. He later went to work for the National Park Service and retired after 32 years as a truck driver. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homeowner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helped;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Need]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Stuckey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel N. Graves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alpha Kappa Alpha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Hayman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Woodruff]]></category><category><![CDATA[La Plata]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yvette Countryman]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Park Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Census Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ National Harbor Isn't Ignoring Its Neighbors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202740.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202740.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Irma Bogan was looking at some dead azaleas in her back yard the other day. "Too much dust, too much dirt," she said, as if delivering a eulogy. During the construction of National Harbor, which abuts her Riverbend neighborhood in Fort Washington, a thick layer of red dust had covered homes, gardens and cars. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harbor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ignoring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Its]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neighbors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Boddie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irma Bogan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Jenkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riverbend Citizens Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ray Stanback]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zeno St. Cyr]]></category><category><![CDATA[OnStar Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Living Memorial and Too Many Dead ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803251.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803251.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A tree was dedicated yesterday to homicide victims in the District and Prince George's County. A willow oak sapling was planted in a small park in the 1300 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE, not far from the county line.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923819367" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923819367" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Boomer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Thomas Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Smith Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Belvoir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Ivey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julian Agurs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's Hospital]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ignorance Is Bliss, And Then You Get an STD ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It seems like a lifetime ago, but spring used to be the perfect excuse for me to write lightheartedly about sex. From mating rituals on display at the National Zoo to cherry blossom courtships around the Tidal Basin, this was truly the season to be jolly. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ignorance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bliss,]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Then]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Get]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[STD]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joycelyn Elders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jared Diamond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Bryan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lanier's D.C. Is One Big Unruly Family ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503206.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503206.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Cathy L. Lanier has a special affinity for grandmothers. To the D.C. police chief, they are the backbone of some of the city's toughest neighborhoods. And her job would be much harder without their help. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lanier's]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unruly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur B. Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intelligence Fusion Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ There's No Justice After a Child Is Killed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003403.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003403.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At Hart Middle School in Southeast Washington a few days ago, a group of students showed up wearing T-shirts bearing the photograph of a dead classmate: DeOnté Rawlings. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[There's]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Child]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Killed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Richardson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballou Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hart Middle School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Invited to Wrestle in a Racial Mud Pit, Obama Soars Above It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Barack Obama took to the podium yesterday, I was pretty angry at how slimy the presidential campaign had become. And my plan was to write a screed about those whites who want Obama to "transcend race" while they get to hold on to their racist ways.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923822056" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923822056" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Invited]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wrestle]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Racial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pit,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soars]]></category><category><![CDATA[Above]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Buchanan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brit Hume]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Duke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Chapman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elijah Cummings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidney Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiger Woods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinity United Church of Christ]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Plan? Don't Be Paranoid. This is 'The Strategy.' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031103137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031103137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Remember "The Plan," that nefarious 1970s urban legend about whites scheming to take over the District? Of course, such a plan has long been discredited as little more than a figment of paranoid black imaginings. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paranoid.]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[is]]></category><category><![CDATA['The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy.']]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margery A. Turner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rayful Edmonds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert H. Pohlman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Negative Spin Hasn't Spoiled Obama's Yarn ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603037.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603037.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Once upon a time, an audacious black man named Barack Obama decided to run for president of the United States. But a former president, a white man named Bill, wanted former first lady Hillary to have the job. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Negative]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hasn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spoiled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yarn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Drudge Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ali Baba]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Duke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Khalid Shakur]]></category><category><![CDATA[L. Douglas Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Wilkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hints of Change in the Heart of Virginia ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902616.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902616.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va., Feb. 16 -- ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hints]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Harvey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesterfield County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Mullen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[L. Douglas Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlothian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Mullen]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Street Dangers Aren't Confined to the Dark of Night ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021702370.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021702370.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From one streetlight to the next, you get a mile or more of smooth, gently rolling asphalt. Indian Head Highway is like that for roughly 30 miles running parallel to the Potomac River, from its beginnings at the Capital Beltway through Prince George's and Charles counties until it dead-ends at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in the town of Indian Head.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923824618" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923824618" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aren't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Confined]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dark]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Night]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pontiac GTO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Celica]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accokeek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budds Creek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland International Raceway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naval Surface Warfare Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ And Now an Attempt to Connect Real People With the Shifting Public Mood ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020503043.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020503043.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Suddenly, it's all about my money, not your war. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Now]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attempt]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Real]]></category><category><![CDATA[People]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shifting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liz Heron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Stimulus Plan With a Long-Term Payoff ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012903122.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012903122.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Move around any low-income neighborhood in the Washington area and you see many people who could really use an economic stimulus. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stimulus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Long-Term]]></category><category><![CDATA[Payoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry J. Holzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown Public Policy Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anacostia (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Black-Oriented News Could Use a New Golden Age ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503239.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503239.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Turn on the television news these days and you'll see history being made. A charismatic black man and a savvy white woman are running neck and neck to become the Democratic nominee for president. But despite the rich racial and gender implications of Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's candidacies, you won't see much in the way of news analysis by African Americans -- men or women. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Black-Oriented]]></category><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Golden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Age]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black Entertainment Television Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah R. Tang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viacom Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Rose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Gordon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot Ghetto Mess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University School of Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Blacks Pondering Whites Voting for Obama ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010804185.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010804185.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A new version of an old race game has been gaining popularity among African Americans lately. I call it, "Divining the White Mind: Can a Black Man Be Elected President?" Imagine a board game in which a black figure moves across a map of the United States, offering up clues about racial attitudes in America.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923828157" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923828157" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Blacks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category><category><![CDATA[Whites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold J. Logan]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opinion Research Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revere Bank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Chapman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Byrd, Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jena (Louisiana)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidney Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sioux City]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wolf Blitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan]]></category><category><![CDATA[W.E.B. Du Bois Society]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Cheyenne Woman, It Still Hurts to Hail the Home Team ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010101998.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010101998.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ These are the times that try Suzan Harjo's Cheyenne soul. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheyenne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woman,]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurts]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hail]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Sewing Machine as Power Tool ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122501114.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122501114.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Janice Rankins began offering sewing classes in the District 10 years ago, it was mostly a girl thing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Mill0y]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sewing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Machine]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Power]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tool]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Yes, Virginia, Caring Is Part of Police Work ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121801793.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121801793.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A caravan of police cars rolls into a troubled public housing complex in Southeast Washington, and you assume that they are responding to a crime. So when the officers pop the trunks, you expect to see shotguns, handcuffs and riot gear. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Yes,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Part]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Work]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One School Shows Prevention Requires More Than a Health Class ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121102357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121102357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Inside the Arts and Technology Academy in Northeast Washington, you'll find an antidote to the spread of HIV and AIDS, along with ways to reduce teen pregnancy, curb substance abuse and quell violence. While students at the public charter elementary are learning basic skills, they are also being inoculated with heavy doses of self-respect, integrity, discipline, responsibility and teamwork.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923831422" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923831422" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Requires]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Class]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Carrera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Errick L. Greene]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Children's Aid Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Youth Investment Trust Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie Carper]]></category><category><![CDATA[DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Recovered Life Turned Into More  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120401932.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120401932.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At one time in his life, Alvin Carpenter was spiritually bankrupt and addicted to drugs. Using dirty needles, he became infected with the AIDS virus. Seemingly helpless and hopeless, he was all but disowned by his family. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recovered]]></category><category><![CDATA[Life]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alvin Carpenter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heather Tighe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Hospital Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adams Morgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armpie Carpenter Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas James]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florence Shorter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johnny W. Allem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johnson Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Frame of Reference for a Familiar Death ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702459.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702459.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You hear about killings all the time, more than a few of the victims named Sean, black youngsters in their 20s, full of promise. But you don't feel the pain unless it's your Sean. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frame]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reference]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Familiar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Snyder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dupont Circle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristopher Baumann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami-Dade County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police Labor Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ It's Time For a Talk On Seat Belts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201312.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201312.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Elaine Alston-Hill consoled her son's grieving schoolmates, hugging dozens of them as they arrived for his funeral. William Thomas III leaned into his son's casket, whispering last words. And when the memorial service for 16-year-old Tavonne Antonio Alston began, the parents collapsed into their seats as if the life had been drained from them as well. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belts]]></category><category><![CDATA[James M. Briscoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathaniel Briggs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryans Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dionnte Swinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donte Segar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Alston-Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irwin Goldzweig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Chapman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Markus Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memphis]]></category><category><![CDATA[African Methodist Episcopal Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meharry Medical College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plata High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Statistical Portrait That Puts Black America in a Hopeful Light ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103002057.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103002057.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ According to recent reports:<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923833778" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923833778" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statistical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portrait]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[America]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hopeful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hershey's Kisses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristin Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Department of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Urban League]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Census Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dr. Hornsby and Mr. Andre7 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302223.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302223.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Andre J. Hornsby, the former Prince George's County school superintendent, has that old-school look. Right out of the 1950s. Respectable. Imagine Thurgood Marshall or Howard University physician Charles Drew, crisply dressed in suit and tie, wavy gray hair brushed back to a sheen. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre7]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Joffrion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sienna Owens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choice Hotels International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Drew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary (Indiana)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yonkers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas Southern University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Be Mindful in Caring For Parents Not To Become Theirs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902183.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902183.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I recently made what has become known as an "elder care" visit to my parents' home in Shreveport, La. If you're like me, an aging adult child of aging parents, you know that time wreaks havoc on the body and mind. Arthritis, backache, sore feet, memory loss -- so you can just imagine how your parents must feel. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mindful]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caring]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Become]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theirs]]></category><category><![CDATA[AARP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Safety Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Lonely Stand Against the Streets ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202203.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202203.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Ann Brogioli showed up in the Washington Highlands for a candlelight vigil not long ago, teenagers ran to greet her with unabashed affection. Neither D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty nor D.C. Council member Marion Barry, who represents the Southeast neighborhood, was received as warmly when each arrived. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lonely]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Streets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Brogioli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic University of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hart Middle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Class Conflict Takes Its Toll in Southeast ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092502034.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092502034.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When an off-duty D.C. police officer shot and killed a 14-year-old boy suspected of stealing a minibike last week, red flags of suspicion went up all over town. The kid was from a tough neighborhood in Southeast, a block or two from where the black cop lived in a gated community called Walter E. Washington Estates.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923836429" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923836429" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Class]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Its]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toll]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homeowners James Haskel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Clay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory Kendall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chele Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Madison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter E. Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gangsta Rap, Dying in the Street ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091801807.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091801807.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If I were a gangsta rapper, I'd be changing my tune. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gangsta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rap,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dying]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On the River, Water Taxi Operator Sees an Open Road ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091101988.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091101988.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Standing on a pier-turned-cabstand, I caught a boat from the Fort Washington marina to the waterfront baseball stadium being built for the Nationals in Southeast Washington. A ride from suburb to city has never been so refreshing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[River,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Water]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taxi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operator]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sees]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Open]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Help for the Poor Could Solve Many District Problems ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402160.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402160.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With all the high-tech crime-fighting gadgets and gizmos being deployed throughout the District in the past couple of years, you'd expect to see at least a dent in violent crime. Rob somebody, and you could be caught in the act by any of 48 surveillance cameras. Shoot somebody, and the noise could be picked up by a network of sensors that can pinpoint the location of gunfire. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Help]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Solve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[District]]></category><category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Violence Is Rooted in the Culture, Not the Gun Store ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801701.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801701.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Not long ago, I brought my gun to Realco Guns in District Heights for cleaning. It is a vintage, J.C. Higgins .22-caliber rifle that my dad purchased from Sears around 1964. We belonged to a father-and-son club in my home town, Shreveport, La., and this was the gun we used whenever the group went out to shoot at tin cans.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923838718" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923838718" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rooted]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Culture,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Store]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Animal Cruelty Isn't Judged on a Level Playing Field ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101977.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101977.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ While eating a porterhouse the other night, I began to see the steak for what it was: a hunk of meat, blood and bone. I managed to disgust myself even more by imagining that a charbroiled piece of pit bull would not have looked much different from the gristle of beef on my fork. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cruelty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judged]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Level]]></category><category><![CDATA[Playing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For One D.C. Teen, a Respite From Violence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080701771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080701771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ While many in the Washington area were participating in National Night Out, Danny Govan was taking another approach to crime prevention. The 16-year-old District resident, whose family has been racked by gun violence, simply got out of town. Adios to Dodge City. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teen,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Respite]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Hierarchy of Victimhood ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101821.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101821.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The homicides had occurred in dribs and drabs, 375 of them throughout the Washington area last year. A couple of bodies found in an alley here, a child struck dead by a stray bullet there -- most sprinkled along the border between the District and Prince George's County. Not really enough to disturb our collective conscious. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victimhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Foreclosures Bloom at Corner Of Prosperity and Gullibility ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701715.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701715.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Where I live in Prince George's County, new homes are popping up all over the place. Some are luxury digs with home theaters, designer bathrooms and gourmet kitchens. And they are selling fast. Forget that old American dream of two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot. Some of my neighbors own three or four cars and have freezers full of steaks.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923840710" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923840710" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Foreclosures]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloom]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prosperity]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gullibility]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In City Swimming Pools, a Fountain of Youth ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001708.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001708.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ During the summers of his youth, Bradford Tatum would cool off by splashing in the Reflecting Pool near the Lincoln Memorial. This was in the 1920s, when Tatum was about 7. Police would chase him away, but he kept coming back. When fall came and temperatures began to dip, young Brad would slip into the Potomac near Georgetown, where the river was warmed by discharge from waterfront factories. It's a wonder he didn't drown -- or at least have his skin rot off. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swimming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pools,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fountain]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rhee's Determination Will Be Tested ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070302095.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070302095.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You can call Michelle A. Rhee chancellor; that's the title D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) has bestowed on his nominee to run the city's public schools. You can call her "phenomenal," as teachers who have worked with her do. Or even "awesome lady," as does one of the students she mentored. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rhee's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Determination]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tested]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Father's Devotion Sustains His Support for Iraq War ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062601866.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062601866.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michael Sparling stands guard against the ugly realities of war. His mission: Protect the morale of wounded soldiers recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Tell them that the sacrifices have been worth it. Let them know that a grateful nation appreciates their service. And express the deeply held belief that victory in Iraq and Afghanistan is assured. From his post in the lobby of Walter Reed's Mologne House, an outpatient residence where he serves as an unofficial greeter and concierge, Sparling holds his ground against an onslaught of views to the contrary. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Father's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Devotion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sustains]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Support]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In City Brimming With Black Talent, Fenty's Cabinet Lacks Color ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061902184.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061902184.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By now, you'd think D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty would be feeling the heat. When a black mayor takes the helm of a majority-black city and starts replacing black Cabinet officials with white ones, you'd expect him to get at least some static.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923844630" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923844630" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brimming]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talent,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fenty's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cabinet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lacks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Color]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mentors Quietly Lend Guiding Hands to D.C. Grads ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061201990.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061201990.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Here's to mentors, the unsung heroes of educational achievement. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mentors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quietly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guiding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hands]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grads]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Familiar Tale of a Future Gone Astray ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060502507.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060502507.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tonya Bell was 12 when I met her in 1989. She had been one of the best bakers and salespeople at Champs Cookies, a youth entrepreneurial program in Southeast Washington that I wrote about at the time. She was smart and witty, with a smile that could charm and warm your heart. A bright future seemed assured. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Familiar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tale]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Future]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Astray]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Seeking to Close the Book on a Bad Law ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For Arthur Burnett, a senior D.C. Superior Court judge, few drug cases have tested his judicial temperament like those involving crack cocaine. What infuriates Burnett most is not the users but the law itself: a five-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for possessing five grams of crack cocaine -- about as much as two packets of sugar. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Seeking]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Close]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Book]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Disappointing by Any Name ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051502334.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051502334.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When it comes to historic estates in Prince George's County, the name Oxon Hill doesn't exactly have that aristocratic ring. Shortened from "Oxford on the Hill" by plantation owners in the colonial era, the name is more likely to conjure up images of an ox on a hill than the countryside around Oxford, England, that the land was said to resemble.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923846804" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923846804" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Disappointing]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Any]]></category><category><![CDATA[Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Return of the Queen for SE Neighborhood ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801794.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801794.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Queen Elizabeth II did not take a stroll along Queen Stroll Place SE this time. And that's too bad. She'd surely have raised a royal eyebrow at the changes on the D.C. street since she toured it in 1991. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Return]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Queen]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[SE]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neighborhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Fire That Could Have Been Foretold ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101713.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101713.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The fiery destruction of Eastern Market, our long-neglected, trash-strewn, rodent-infested "local treasure," hit us when we least expected it. Sure, the 19th-century Capitol Hill structure had no sprinkler system; the electrical wiring was faulty; the opaque plexiglass windows were set in rotted wood frames. But who could have guessed that those things might constitute a fire hazard? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Have]]></category><category><![CDATA[Been]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foretold]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On Gun Control, the Kid in Us Can Cost Lives ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301622.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301622.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Perhaps it's my inner child, but a part of me secretly cheers the libertarian. Especially those wild and crazy guys at the Cato Institute. The Washington think tank thinks government ought not try to stop people from using whatever drugs they want -- cocaine, heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, you name it -- or from gambling or watching porn online. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Control,]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kid]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Us]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lives]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sharpton Revelation Reveals Little ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022701559.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022701559.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Kunta could tell that some were Foulah, Jola, Serere and Wolof . . . but most were Mandinkas."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923852518" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923852518" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sharpton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revelation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reveals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama and the Old Racial Bind ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022001654.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022001654.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND -- Marcus Smith was working as a waiter at a Democratic fundraiser here the other night when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) took to the podium. Smith, with dishes in both hands, stopped to listen. "I'd really like to see Obama become the first black president of the United States," he said later. Asked what made Obama black, he replied, "That little taste his father gave him was all it takes." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Racial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bind]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ With Toes of All Colors, a Ripple Effect ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801211.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801211.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The annual Black History Invitational Swim Meet, which ended yesterday in the District, may sound to some like an event that got shoehorned into Black History Month as an afterthought. The sport has no world champion racial-barrier breakers like Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson or Arthur Ashe. Besides, who would hold a swim meet in February anyway -- except maybe the Polar Bear Club? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toes]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colors,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ripple]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effect]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ GPS Tagging Is for Wild Animals, Not Truants ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301270.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301270.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Let's say your teenager is a habitual truant and there is nothing you can do about it. Maryland Del. Doyle L. Niemann (D-Prince George's) thinks he might have the solution: Fit the child with a Global Positioning System chip, then have police track him down. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tagging]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wild]]></category><category><![CDATA[Animals,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Truants]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Good Thing for Addicts and D.C. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601680.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601680.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ron Daniels runs what is perhaps the most controversial effort in the District's fight against AIDS: a needle exchange program. Drop off your dirty works at his mobile outreach unit, and he'll give you all this in return: new needles, sanitized cookers, vials of sterile water, alcohol swabs and cotton balls. Everything but the dope.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923855384" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923855384" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thing]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Addicts]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Too Many Killings, Too Many Crime Scenes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001802.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001802.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After reporting on so many homicides in the Washington area, you begin to feel haunted by the crime scenes. Headed for a new restaurant on a revitalized U Street not long ago, I found myself near the spot where I'd seen a teenager sprawled out with a gunshot wound to the head. And I wondered if the stain I'd stepped on was blood that a cleanup crew had missed. By the time I got to the restaurant, I wasn't hungry anymore. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[Killings,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scenes]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Force Is Not the Only Way to Administer a Vaccine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Let's get something straight: I am not against a vaccine that prevents strains of the human papillomavirus, as some readers have contended. Nor am I for cervical cancer, which is caused by the sexually transmitted HPV. However, as my previous column on this subject indicated, I am opposed to the government mandating the vaccine. I say leave the role of strong-arm drug pusher to the thugs on the street. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Force]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Only]]></category><category><![CDATA[Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Administer]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dad's Foot Work Gave Fenty a Leg Up ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011101770.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011101770.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the store where I buy running shoes, owner Phil Fenty ran a finger along the sides of my feet. Without taking measurements or asking what kind of shoe I wanted, he went into the storeroom and came back with three boxes of sneakers. Every pair fit -- and looked good, too. How did he know? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dad's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Work]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gave]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ District's HPV Proposal  Tinged With Ugly Assumptions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901780.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901780.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Let's say you have an 11-year-old daughter in D.C. public schools. She'll be a sixth-grader next year. You are reminded that she must be immunized before she will be allowed to return to school. She'll need the usual vaccinations against measles, rubella and chickenpox. But this time, there's another disease on the list, one that the D.C. government is strongly urging your daughter be immunized against: the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is sexually transmitted. After all, your daughter is 11 and probably black, so the assumption is she'll be having unprotected sex in no time -- but don't take offense.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923857907" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923857907" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[District's]]></category><category><![CDATA[HPV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Proposal]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tinged]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ugly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assumptions]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In New Orleans's Lower Ninth, Still Waiting for a Break in the Clouds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600789.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600789.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW ORLEANS I was passing through the Crescent City last week on my way to visit my parents in Shreveport for the holidays. It was raining, and I stopped when I saw a man just standing in a pool of water outside his home in the Lower Ninth Ward. Turns out his name was Clark Kent. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orleans's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ninth,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Break]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clouds]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Homeless Demand Our Aid ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901466.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901466.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This won't be my usual "remember the homeless" column, a staple of winter writings in years past. There will be no profile of some randomly selected street person whom you can either pity with a donation or curse in contempt. Either we're going to put an end to chronic homelessness in America. Or not. And featuring a few more sad faces for Thanksgiving or during the first cold days of the year falls squarely in the category of doing little if anything to solve the problem. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Homeless]]></category><category><![CDATA[Demand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Our]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aid]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Behind the Wheel, Young, Restless and at Risk ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201579.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201579.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ No doubt it's because my youngest son got his Maryland driver's license this year, at 16, but whenever there's a news report about a car crash in our region, I want to know if a teenager was involved. And I'm especially interested in 16-year-olds, who have the highest crash rate of all drivers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Behind]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wheel,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Young,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Restless]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fenty's Choice of Police Chief In the White-Hot Spotlight ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501440.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501440.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923901980" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923901980" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fenty's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[White-Hot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotlight]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Why Prince George's Can't Wait ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801744.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801744.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Where is our Rev. Al Sharpton? Seriously. Our Al wouldn't necessarily wear pressed hair or sound like a storefront preacher. He certainly wouldn't have to be an opportunist or an instigator or even a he, for that matter -- just someone to help us channel our consternation over questionable police practices into action. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Why]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince]]></category><category><![CDATA[George's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wait]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Liberty, Justice and Representation for All ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112301135.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112301135.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Liberty,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Representation]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In a Land Bleak in Opportunity, 'Redskins' Is One More Barb ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101368.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101368.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MACY, Neb. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bleak]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opportunity,]]></category><category><![CDATA['Redskins']]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barb]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Despite Troubles, Cheer Prevails ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401282.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401282.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WHAT CHEER, Iowa<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923904214" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923904214" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Despite]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troubles,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prevails]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When Winning Is Everything, Losers Dominate Elections ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110902153.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110902153.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you want to see how America looks from the bottom rung of society, visit Terry C. Beckwith at his homestead beneath the 11th Street Bridge in Southeast Washington. He's not your stereotypical homeless person, neither schizophrenic nor drunk nor traumatized by war. He calls himself an "oxymoron," not to be confused with just any moron. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everything,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Losers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fenty Needs Magical Powers To Conjure Up Success ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701407.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701407.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At 35, Adrian Fenty sports a bald head that makes him appear at once youthfully athletic and prematurely wise. He describes his dome as "aerodynamic," a concept that complements his vision of a District that soars to new heights now that he has been elected mayor. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Needs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Powers]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conjure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Success]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Council Member Paints a Frank Portrait of Prince George's ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110100010.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110100010.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At a recent civic association meeting in Fort Washington, our representative on the Prince George's County Council, Tony Knotts, dropped by to conduct what amounted to a remedial course in grass-roots politics. It was the kind of primer that you might give to a high school civics class -- which was perfect, given our political IQ. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Member]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paints]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portrait]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince]]></category><category><![CDATA[George's]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Anthrax Mystery and Misery Linger for Postal Workers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102401365.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102401365.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The envelope containing the anthrax was postmarked Oct. 9, 2001, and arrived at the Brentwood postal facility in Northeast Washington a few days later.  The return address read, "4th Grade, Greendale School, Franklin Park, NJ 08852." But the letter had not been mailed by kids. And you could be forgiven for no longer wondering who had mailed it.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923907687" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923907687" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Anthrax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Misery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linger]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Postal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Workers]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hate Is Always in Style At a Gathering of the Klan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701557.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701557.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I wanted to see what a 21st-century Ku Klux Klan rally was like, so I went to one Saturday at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia. About a dozen or so people showed up in white sheets and pointy hoods. And I assure you they were treated a lot better than they treat others. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Always]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Style]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gathering]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Klan]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Allen, a Lesson in the Painful Power of Symbols ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001273.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001273.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As a Boy Scout in the early 1960s, I earned a pioneering merit badge due in no small measure to my knot-tying skills. (Untying them was a different story.) I could tie, for instance, a simple square knot, which can be used for joining two pieces of rope, and a bowline with stop knots, which can be used on a lifeline thrown to someone who is drowning. I could also fashion a hangman's knot, which was beautifully coiled with an opening that fit snuggly around the neck. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lesson]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Painful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Power]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Symbols]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Understanding George Allen's  Best Black Friend ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301520.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301520.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Benjamin J. Lambert III, who serves in the Virginia Senate, hears the question all the time: Why would such an influential black Democrat come to the rescue of George Allen, a white Republican U.S. senator who was being tarred and feathered by his own racist past? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Understanding]]></category><category><![CDATA[George]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen's]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fast Cars May Provide a Road to Success for Bored D.C. Kids ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601353.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601353.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How's this for a bold idea: an urban youth racing school where fast-driving teens are cheered by fans instead of chased by police? Such a school opened Saturday in Northeast Washington, with about 50 teenagers showing up for a free education that could one day put them on the fast track to NASCAR fame and fortune.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923909891" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352923909891" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Provide]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Success]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bored]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Drug Program Only Reached Through Prison ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901469.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901469.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The District's newest residential drug treatment facility offers substance abusers a unique approach to recovery. A patient starts off by taking a battery of tests to assess literacy, intelligence and even self-concept. A customized 28-day treatment plan is drawn up, and the patient receives regular medical care, counseling and job and life-skills training along with a variety of special treatments such as acupuncture and humor therapy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[Only]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reached]]></category><category><![CDATA[Through]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prison]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Legacy of Slavery Echoes Beyond Jamestown Founding ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501288.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501288.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "There came . . . a Dutch man-of-warre that sold us 20 negars." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Legacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Echoes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beyond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamestown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Founding]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On This D.C. School System Quiz, No One Succeeds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901266.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901266.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Okay, teachers. It's your turn. The back-to-school pop quiz is not just for kids today. Here are six multiple-choice questions. Answer them correctly, and you'll also be able to answer the one question that boggled the best minds on the D.C. Council this summer: What is a "high-quality" education -- and how do you get one free? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quiz,]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Succeeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Prince George's, Many Signs of  A Lively Election ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082201182.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082201182.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ To get my vote, many of the candidates in Prince George's County's upcoming Democratic primary have put up campaign posters. Hundreds, no, hundreds of thousands of these red, white and blue bits of cardboard clog median strips and clutter busy intersections. They look like litter on a stick to me, but more than a few offic