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July 19, 2010 Media / Washington area life

How Washington Post and New York Times could outgun hyperlocal sites like TBD and Baristanet

In 2004 Baristanet—the lively hyperlocal network that helped inspire similar operations in several states—started writing up picnics, schools and other

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April 19, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Student newspaper raided at JMU: As if a slavery-blind Guv isn’t enough for Virginia

Virginia, where the governor honored "Confederate History Month" without at first even acknowledging the evils of slavery, has another winner

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January 20, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Three ways to save the Washington Post: A few ‘Post Apocalypse’ musings from Alexandria

My old friend used to handle some PR matters for a union in Northern Virginia, and people still pick his

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November 7, 2009 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

A WASHINGTON novel

The Solomon Scandals blog comes out of Alexandria, Virginia, just across the Potomac from D.C., and the novel itself is

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April 27, 2009 Building collapses / Skyline Plaza

The Skyline collapse—and property rights vs. human life

Scandals at one level is a beach read, a mix of a thriller and novel of manners. But at another,

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January 26, 2009 Skyline Plaza

Skyline Work Song: A poem by Andrew Solarz

The Solomon Scandals, although fiction, was inspired in part by the Skyline Plaza collapse, which killed 14 workers and injured

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December 3, 2008 Jewish topics

Scandals as a Northern Virginia Jewish novel

Jonathan Stone as an Afro-American? Because Jewish protagonists are such old hat? So suggested a buddy of mine—not an anti-semite

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