The missing governorship

One thing that struck me the other day as I was watching Channel 13 (our District government equivalent of C-SPAN) is that our city council has to be a lot more than the average body by that name. It has to simultaneously deal with all the ordinary problems of a major American city (and one of the poorer ones at that), and coordinate what would normally be state-level programs (this was especially clear during a discussion of medicaid). This is a huge task.

With that in mind, Mayor Williams recent call to have his position's title be changed to "governor" makes a lot of sense - it would be a good step towards gaining acknowledgment of the difficulty of administrating the District. But even if DC can't get anyone else to recognize it as a state, it still needs to act like one.