Environment reporter in Washington DC. Climate change, trees, rivers. Occasionally: pandas. Every 17 years: cicadas. On a quest to visit all of DC’s 697 parks.
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3 Oct 2024
So fun! The @NBCNightlyNews story included my obsession with non-working drinking fountains. I enjoyed being the "good news" segment at the end of a newscast filled with really depressing stories. nbcnews.com/nightly-news/vid…
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5 Nov 2024
Not thrilled to see the return of the plywood in downtown DC.
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5 Nov 2024
Kinda tempted to steal a few of these commemorative White House traffic cones.
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5 Nov 2024
I’m out visiting DC parks again. Thought it would be a good day to go to the park in front of the White House. A weird mix of extreme security, tourists, journalists and protesters. Oh and a huge hawk hunting squirrels.
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5 Nov 2024
I talked to this guy Joel who says he found the UGH sign and it spoke to him. Told me he’s been sleeping in the park, and says he chose it because it feels safe. Had some profound thoughts about the juxtaposition of power (the WH) and poverty (folks sleeping on park benches).
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3 Oct 2024
I had a fun experience recently: met up with this crew from NBC, doing a story about my quest to visit all 697 of DC’s parks. Anyway the story is on @NBCNightlyNews today!
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17 Sep 2024
“If someone hit her with his fists, he would get arrested. But he hit her with a car, so he just gets a ticket and can walk away.” Driver with $19,770 in unpaid DC tickets drove off with (another) citation after hitting a middle school girl in a crosswalk. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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17 Sep 2024
"An accident is an accident," says the driver, whose vehicle has 94 unpaid tickets, including running red lights and speeding. "With everyone who does that in the District of Columbia, they’re singling me out?" Really well written and reported story by @rachelweinerwp
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5 Sep 2024
I’m glad to see so many people mocking this story. As a frequent bus rider I’d love to be interviewed about how dangerous and annoying it is when the bus stop is blocked by a car, so the bus has to unload in the traffic lane. One entitled driver vs dozens of transit riders.
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5 Sep 2024
Canal Park in SW DC. I love that there is a splash pad / fountain / cafe in the summer and ice skating rink in the winter!
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5 Sep 2024
Digging into the question of swimming in DC's Yards Park Canal Basin... The website of the Capitol River Front BID (which maintains / operates the park) features numerous prominent images of people in the water. The park rules section of the site has other ideas.
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5 Sep 2024
Virginia Ave. today, next to the freeway. You can still see the Washington Monument in the distance and get a sense for the pre-freeway design of the city street grid.
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5 Sep 2024
This is supposedly a triangle park on my DC park map. I think when they built I-695 some little parks were collateral damage, but they still appear on some maps.
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5 Sep 2024
I also like these metal sculptures, like a giant left a huge spool of wire sitting around.
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5 Sep 2024
Not sure what these cubes are around the park. Either creatively disguised park maintenance facilities or perhaps a new Apple Store?
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5 Sep 2024
After a hiatus, I’m out visiting DC parks again, for my project with @CityCast_DC — my first time at Yards Park since they put up signs telling people that what looks very much like a swimming pool is not for swimming.
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5 Sep 2024
I wonder if people pay attention to the no swimming signs on a hot summer day. This place used to get PACKED with kids. This photo is from 2018.
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8 Jul 2024
I visited all of DC's boundary stones over the course of a 9.5 hour minivan ride. I wrote about the journey -- and the history of DC's oldest federal monuments. npr.org/2024/07/04/nx-s1-494…
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