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@washingtonpost Montgomery County reporter. Previously @baltimoresun and @capgaznews. Chicagoland native. [email protected].
Baltimore, MD
Joined December 2019
In Maryland, there’s now a greener way to handle dead bodies.
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A new and greener kind of death care is coming to Maryland: water cremation. Those who’ve done it describe it as a gentler way to send off a loved one.
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RT @AdamTuss: Holy Cow Purple Line trains on the tracks! (The project is still 2 years away from opening though) @nbcwashington #transit #M….
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In Kerrville, Texas right now helping with flood coverage. Follow us here:.
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More flash flooding is expected Monday in Texas’s Hill Country, where authorities are still searching for victims of last week’s flooding catastrophe.
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Got a very well-intended backhanded compliment today from a man outside a Virginia polling place while helping cover the primary. Him: I recognize your name from the paper! You’re famous!. Me: Oh haha. That’s so nice. Him: I see your name at the bottom of stories all the time!.
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Spent quite a bit of time on this one. Thank you to the Ter family for sharing your story with us.
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Olesya Taylor and her daughter Olivia, 12, both died in the January crash over Reagan National Airport. Anne Valerie Ter, 14, poured her grief into preparations for a piano concerto competition the...
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For better or worse, I’m probably going to meet all 4,000 at some point.
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Chicago has never been more ready.
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I spent my afternoon at the Basilica in D.C. talking to folks about the new pope. I spoke to a woman who knew little English, only Spanish. Before I left her, she looked back at the confessional and tears started to well up in her eyes. “I’m just really happy,” she said.
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People came from Oregon, Indiana, North Carolina and more to gather on The National Mall today and protest Trump and his actions over the past two months.
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Demonstrators in D.C. and other cities decried the administration’s dismantling of federal agencies and imposition of sweeping tariffs.
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CASA and family members of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia rally in Prince George’s County ahead of a hearing on his fate. Abrego Garcia was sent to an El Salvadoran prison after what the Trump Administration called an “administrative error.”
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Just drove by a CVS in Baltimore and saw a woman outside cradling a cat in her arms that was swaddled in a blanket and wearing a baby bonnet. The kind of pet parent I aspire to be.
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Overheard in journalism grad school:. “If I have to hear about framing and agenda setting one more time…”.
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Heads up: do not touch the gulls (except on weekends and state holidays) (kidding, kidding).
Really just incredible vibes on the Montgomery County Executive press briefing today
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RT @Ginny_Bixby: Really just incredible vibes on the Montgomery County Executive press briefing today
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Local angle: One of the locations on the original Chitlin’ Circuit — where Black performers played during segregation — was Carr’s Beach in Annapolis.
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Thank you to the Ter family for sharing your beautiful and tragic story with me. Not enough people got to meet Olivia and Olesya. I hope this will give them a glimmer of what they were like.
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Olivia Ter and her mother Olesya Taylor, 50, of Alexandria, Virginia, were on American Eagle Flight 5342 when it collided with a helicopter last week.
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Here's what we've learned so far about the plane crash victims -- absolutely Herculean effort by The Washington Post staff. More to come.
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Family and friends remember victims of the collision between American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport.
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