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February 21, 2017 Media / Politicians / Washington area life

A Trump-era etiquette guide: How progressives can get along with Trumpists and respect themselves in the morning

  George Roper, my good friend from high school, is dead now. When alive, he was often as right-wing as

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June 16, 2012 Politicians / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

On Sally Quinn, money, power, bipartisanship and my inner Veblen

Sally Quinn-bashers have once again been at work—ridiculing an essay headlined Sally Quinn announces the end of power in Washington.

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October 12, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Washington Post columnist: ‘Fair number of readers’ wanted LESS on Quinn Bradlee’s wedding

How much coverage of Quinn Bradlee’s wedding is enough in the Washington Post, where his father was the Watergate-era editor

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October 12, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Quinn Bradlee’s wedding reception draws noise complaint—and three more sentences in WaPo

Well, the Washington Post has now published more than three sentences about the Quinn Bradlee-Pary Anbaz Williamson wedding festivities this

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June 3, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Sally Quinn, snobbery and the Mink Stole Ladies Syndrome

Washington is full of people telling others how to live their lives or at least wishing they could. Same for

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April 22, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Hyperlocal journalism: Georgetown publisher robbed—and eager to tell neighbors about it. Lesson for the Washington Post?

Update, 1:47 p.m.: Post rival’s local news strategy—a Poynter Institute item. – D.R. My online friend Beth Solomon, publisher of

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April 7, 2010 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Confederate History Month returns to Virginia: Should Northern VA secede?

Update, 8:01 p.m., April 7: Gov. McDonnell has apologized for not mentioning slavery when he proclaimed CHM. – D.R. The

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March 1, 2010 Media / Publicity / Washington area life

‘White House Girlz of DC’? ‘Sorority putsch’ against Social Secretary Desiree Rodgers?

The Georgetown Dish has the details about the women of 3303 Water St., N.W. Once again Life catches up with

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January 10, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

TheGeorgetownDish starts up: Hyperlocal newspaper war ahead? Or a friendly buyout?

A new online newspaper, the TheGeorgetown Dish, is starting up right in the neighborhood of Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn and

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