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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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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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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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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“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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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I also like these metal sculptures, like a giant left a huge spool of wire sitting around.
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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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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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