District of Columbia adds race to debate on legalizing pot
A debate over legalizing marijuana in the nation’s capital is focusing on the outsized number of arrests of African Americans on minor drug charges.
Mayor Smith, local leaders encouraged by Washington reception
Mayor Robert Smith returned from Washington, D.C. Wednesday with good news — state senators and representatives were “receptive and sympathetic” to his attempt to secure federal funding for the Highway 45 bypass and a 14th Avenue drainage ditch project.