This will be a selection, given that I’ve been a journalist for 40-plus years. If you are a glutton for punishment, here’s my RSS feed from the Washington Post that has my last couple years of stories; otherwise I’ll put up a selection of some of my favorites.
Local news
“Spite house” blocks neighbor’s air, light, but city says it’s legal
Using his mom’s recipes, this Mexican immigrant became DC’s taco king
Tracking bicyclists on the bucolic Mount Vernon Trail
Entrepreneurs, residents on Columbia Pike anticipate redevelopment
A $1 million bus stop opens in Arlington
A pharmacist’s road from segregation to integration to revitalization
Jumbotron fails at presidential inauguration
Redevelopment in west Alexandria endangers low-income renters
Coal-fired power plant in urban DC area to close
911 emergency services fail for days after summer storm
The victim who died waiting for help
Hurricanes
It’s all gone: Mexico Beach wiped away by Hurricane Michael
Florence has made Wilmington an island
Hurricane Irma in the farmworker town of Immokalee
From the obits desk (where we put the “fun” in funeral)
Inventor of Valium Leo Sternbach
Brightest boy of 1929 Wilber B. Huston
Wrestler Reggie “The Crusher” Lisowski
Whirly Girl founder Jean Howard Phelan
The Watergate obit collection
Mark Felt, aka “Deep Throat” (Previous version, in which I share a byline with Bob Woodward)
Patrick Gray, the FBI director
Fred LaRue, the bagman
E. Howard Hunt, the organizer
Robert Mardian, the CRP’s attorney
Sam Garrison, the GOP counsel
Sam Dash, House Judiciary counsel
Rosemary Woods, the president’s secretary
DeVan Shumway, CRP’s spokesman
Montana
I’m slowly scanning some of my clips — yes, I did have a newspaper reporting career before the Internet. Here are a few, with wonderful photos attached. They’re scanned as image files so they are not quite as sharp as text usually is, but I hope they’re readable.
* Miles City Bucking Horse Sale 1990
* Whitefish Lake oil spill 1989
* Militia of Montana, Noxon 1995
Working Press 