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December 9, 2014 Washington area life

Greener pastures for Rashad Young, Alexandria’s $266.5K city manager: D.C., beware

Rashad Young, hired at $245K and now paid $266,508 a year, is leaving as Alexandria’s city manager to become city

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July 19, 2012 Media / Washington area life

Sell Washington Post to Michael Bloomberg? Not so crazy an idea

The New York Times, whether on global warming, the newest iPad or corruption in Mongolia, outdoes the Washington Post all too

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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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August 23, 2011 Politicians / Washington area life

Earthquake irony for Rep. Eric Cantor

Video by rhidoyakash California, not the Washington, D.C., area, is where  Americans go if they want to flirt with the

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July 16, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Ah, yes! To the Flemish Cap, Speaker Boehner!

";” alt=””> Film as perfect budget-crisis metaphor? As generic rhetoric, some in Washington may talk of  a “perfect storm” of

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May 16, 2011 Media / Publicity

‘Tabloid City’ vs. ‘The Solomon Scandals’: A quick, friendly comparison between Pete Hamill’s newspaper novel and mine

Pete Hamill is out with Tabloid City, a New York newspaper novel commanding its share of pixels, column inches and

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December 17, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Politics and Prose bookstore: A role model for the Washington Post, with potential Post-Kaplan synergies?

Something bizarre is happening at Politics and Prose, and perhaps a few other bookstores in the Washington area—and therein may

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September 22, 2010 Media / Washington area life

The Web metrics jungle: TBD hyperlocal site beats WUSA and Washington Examiner in ONE local Web measurement derby

TBD.com’s hyperlocal site is drawing more local Web traffic than WUSA-TV and the Washington Examiner and may close in on

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August 16, 2010 Media / Washington area life

TBD D.C.-area news site not a steady riser in early Alexa stats. But let’s wait for the full story

I’ve been rooting for TBD, the D.C.-area hyperlocal news site that some journalists regard as a savvy canary in the

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