Reporting & Writing

Below is a sampling of the things I have written and reported over the years. For all my current reporting for WAMU 88.5, check here.

Investigative Reporting

• Flipped Off: In D.C.’s Thriving Market for Renovated Homes, It’s Buyer Beware (WAMU)
• Permitting Problems: Who’s Working On Your House? In D.C., It’s Not Clear (WAMU)
• Want to Buy Public Housing? D.C. Has Some for Sale, But It’s Not Cheap (WAMU)
• Low-Income D.C. Homebuyers Face Delays In Program That’s Meant To Help Them (WAMU)
• Group Pushing Legalized Gambling In D.C. Wants To Open Casino In Anacostia (WAMU)
• License To Track? D.C. Cameras Capturing Millions Of License Plate Numbers (WAMU)

Feature Reporting

• From Institution to Inclusion: For D.C. Residents with Developmental Disabilities, It’s Been a Decades-Long Fight to be Treated Like Everyone Else (WAMU)
• After 25 Years, D.C. Moves to Undo One of the Country’s Last Surrogacy Bans (WAMU)
• In D.C.’s ‘Little Rome,’ Development Sparks Debate Over God, Growth And Green Space (WAMU)
• On Capitol Hill, Tension Between History And Growth Comes Down To Single Street (WAMU)
• After 20 Years, Are Charters And DCPS Learning To Get Along? (WAMU)
• Anacostia Residents Fed Up With Negligent Property-Owner: The D.C. Government (WAMU)
• How Paul Reed Smith Built a Guitar Empire on Maryland’s Eastern Shore (WAMU)

Other Reporting & Writing

• Unless Congress Intervenes, Recreational Pot is About to be Legal in D.C. (NPR)
• Legalized Pot in D.C. A Symbolic Victory for Marijuana Advocates (NPR)
• In Deanwood, a Neighborhood Market Stands Up for the Good Old Days (WCP)
• Ink Progress: D.C. Wants New Tattoo Regulations. Bollocks. (WCP)
• Disc Management: Can Professional Ultimate Frisbee Make It In D.C.? (WCP)
• Spies Like Them: The NSA’s National Cryptological Museum is an Open Secret (WCP)
• Weed Certified: D.C.’s Medical Marijuana Rules Won’t Help Everyone (WCP)
• Weeded Out: Medical Marijuana in D.C. Requires Federal Waiver (WCP)
• The End of the Neighborhood School (CityLab)
• Korea Reclaims Former Embassy Lost to Japan Over 100 Years Ago (Washington Diplomat)
• Should D.C. Police Release Mugshots? (Washington Post)

Quirky Stories

• D.C. Couple Cries Fowl After Being Cited For Having Backyard Chickens (WAMU)
• Why Can’t Washingtonians Resist Asking Each Other What They Do For A Living? (WAMU)
• A D.C. Man Walks Into A Police Station And Asks For Marijuana… And Gets It (WAMU)
• D.C. Pepsi Machine Found to be Vending Malt Liquor (DCist)

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