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Columns
by Mark David Richards
- The Role of Presidents in Local DC History: District Needs a Champion
in the White House, February 16, 2009
- The First Five Councils: A List of All the Officers of the Corporation
and the First Municipal Budget of Washington City in the District of
Columbia, January 2003
- DC’s Eternal Return: Efforts to Pass Constitutional Amendments to
Expand Political Rights for Washington, DC,
June 2002
- DC Equality Amendment, written
with Timothy Cooper and Charles Wesley Harris, draft, June 4, 2002
- Response to Questions about the DC
Equality Amendment, written with Timothy Cooper and Charles Wesley
Harris, draft, June 1, 2002
- District of Columbia Service in World War One
and the DC War Memorial, May 26, 2002
- Fragmented Before a Great Storm: the
retrocession of Alexandria and Arlington County to Virginia, May 9,
2002
- Citizens’ Guide to the Congressional
Appropriations Process for the District of Columbia, Revised
edition, February 2002 (original date September 7,
2001)
- Touring Hidden Washington: Living in the Shadow
of Congress, June 2001
- Ten Myths about the District of Columbia,
June 2001
- Ten Things You Can Do to Help Bring Democracy
to DC, June 2001
- District of Columbia Neighborhoods, June
2001
- The Flag of the District of Columbia, June
2001
- Voting Rights for District of Columbia
Citizens, June 20, 2001
- U.S. Public Opinion on Political
Equality for Citizens of the District of Columbia, April 12, 2000
- Comparison of
Approaches that Congress and/or States Could Take to Grant Washington,
D.C., Citizens Greater or Equal Political Rights, February 2001
- Evaluation of 26 Tourist Guidebooks,
by Mark David Richards and Cherith Richards
- Timeline of Public School Governance in
the District of Columbia
- Internet Resources on School Governance
Issues
- A Brief 20th Century Polling History of
the Fight for Home Rule in Washington, District of Columbia, August 2000
Mark Richards is a sociologist who has lived in a variety of District neighborhoods
(Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, Kalorama, Georgetown, Dupont Circle) for 15 years. He currently lives in Dupont East near the
17th Street Strip, and works as senior associate at Bisconti
Research, Inc., an opinion research firm, in Woodley Park.
Richards was born in Pennsylvania, and has lived in North Carolina; Kentucky; Paris
and Strasbourg, France; Bouaké, Ivory Coast; and Tombouctou and Diré, Mali. He speaks French. Richards authored Making Up Our Mind in a Democratic Age: A Review of the Social Science Literature on Land
Use Decision Making, (June 1994);
Searching for Environmental Justice in a Democratic Age: Review of the Discourse on Environmental
Inequality, (July 1996); Case Study
of Neighborhood Identity: Washington, D.C.s Dupont East Neighborhood (April
1997); How a Modern Electricity Company Went
to the Roots of Democracy to Build Public Trust (September 1997); and Struggle for Democracy: A Local Sociopolitical History
of Washington, D.C. (1998). He also developed a series of fact sheets on
DC, and is writing Hope and Delusion in the Nations Capital: Struggle for
Democracy in the District of Columbia, his doctoral thesis for The Union
Institute, which he is doing for fun. |