Washingtonian of the Year 2015: John E. Akridge III
America’s front yard is getting a facelift thanks to Chip Akridge, founder of the Trust for the National Mall. The head of the Akridge real-estate firm has long enjoyed jogging on the Mall. Amid the...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Jenny Brody
Though men accused of abuse are entitled to legal representation, victims don’t automatically have counsel, says Jenny Brody, a founder of the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project. Going to court often...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Dr. Gloria Wilder
Growing up poor, Gloria Wilder dreaded doctor visits—clinics were overcrowded and impersonal. So she became a pediatrician. She was director of community pediatrics at Georgetown and chair of mobile...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Marin Alsop
Forty minutes after the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has sounded its last note, music director Marin Alsop is still onstage. As part of her Off the Cuff series, Alsop spends time with the audience,...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Isiah Leggett
The first time Ike Leggett ran for county office in 1986, he initially didn’t put his picture on the brochure. He’d been advised an African-American couldn’t get elected in largely white Montgomery...
View ArticleLoudoun County Is Finally Catching Up to the Rest of Washington
Two years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story suggesting that the Loudoun County government we knew—the crazy uncle of the Virginia suburbs whose tales of official corruption and homophobic rants...
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Meet the 2015 Washingtonians of the Year
Alexander Ovechkin Gorky Mikhail Velasco Jean and Steve Case Gwen Ifill John E. Akridge III Jenny Brody Dr. Gloria Wilder Terry Flood Marin Alsop Isiah Leggett Joan Gregoryk The Article Meet the 2015...
View ArticleBen Bradlee Could Be Exhumed from His Crypt Thanks to Georgetown Griping
In October, a full year after Washington’s elite crammed into National Cathedral for Ben Bradlee’s funeral, the former Washington Post executive editor was laid to rest at Georgetown’s Oak Hill...
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How a Benedictine Monk Saved Mary Force Stead Park From Becoming a Parking Lot
This summer, an elderly Benedictine monk traveled from Rhode Island to take in the changes recently made to a mid-block park on P Street near Dupont Circle. “I thought, ‘This is very nice,’” Father...
View ArticleFormer DC Mayor Vince Gray Is Running for the DC Council
Former DC Mayor Vince Gray, who was defeated in his 2014 re-election bid amid a Justice Department investigation into his first mayoral campaign, will return to District politics by running for the...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: John E. Akridge III
America’s front yard is getting a facelift thanks to Chip Akridge, founder of the Trust for the National Mall. The head of the Akridge real-estate firm has long enjoyed jogging on the Mall. Amid the...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Jenny Brody
Though men accused of abuse are entitled to legal representation, victims don’t automatically have counsel, says Jenny Brody, a founder of the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project. Going to court often...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Dr. Gloria Wilder
Growing up poor, Gloria Wilder dreaded doctor visits—clinics were overcrowded and impersonal. So she became a pediatrician. She was director of community pediatrics at Georgetown and chair of mobile...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Marin Alsop
Forty minutes after the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has sounded its last note, music director Marin Alsop is still onstage. As part of her Off the Cuff series, Alsop spends time with the audience,...
View ArticleWashingtonian of the Year 2015: Isiah Leggett
The first time Ike Leggett ran for county office in 1986, he initially didn’t put his picture on the brochure. He’d been advised an African-American couldn’t get elected in largely white Montgomery...
View ArticleLoudoun County Is Finally Catching Up to the Rest of Washington
Two years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story suggesting that the Loudoun County government we knew—the crazy uncle of the Virginia suburbs whose tales of official corruption and homophobic rants...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the 2015 Washingtonians of the Year
Alexander Ovechkin Gorky Mikhail Velasco Jean and Steve Case Gwen Ifill John E. Akridge III Jenny Brody Dr. Gloria Wilder Terry Flood Marin Alsop Isiah Leggett Joan Gregoryk The Article Meet the 2015...
View ArticleBen Bradlee Could Be Exhumed from His Crypt Thanks to Georgetown Griping
In October, a full year after Washington’s elite crammed into National Cathedral for Ben Bradlee’s funeral, the former Washington Post executive editor was laid to rest at Georgetown’s Oak Hill...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How a Benedictine Monk Saved Mary Force Stead Park From Becoming a Parking Lot
This summer, an elderly Benedictine monk traveled from Rhode Island to take in the changes recently made to a mid-block park on P Street near Dupont Circle. “I thought, ‘This is very nice,’” Father...
View ArticleFormer DC Mayor Vince Gray Is Running for the DC Council
Former DC Mayor Vince Gray, who was defeated in his 2014 re-election bid amid a Justice Department investigation into his first mayoral campaign, will return to District politics by running for the...
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