Your U.S. Senate At Work: Maybe it's best D.C. doesn't have any members in the Senate, after all. Because if we did, they'd probably do embarrassing things like what Pennsylvania's Democratic Sen. Bob Casey did today, which was whine on Twitter about the Nationals' plan to sell advance tickets to a May homestand against the [...]
The Baltimore-Washington Newspaper Guild sent its members another memo this morning about the buyout offer at the Washington Post, clarifying a bit about who's eligible. Yesterday, the union indicated that six local government and politics staffers were exempt from the offer; the buyout is targeting a total of nine employees in the Metro department, out [...]
The Post vs. Its Staff: The Post will be offering staff buyouts in an attempt to get rid of 48 employees, including Metro section staffers. Though the Metro staff is huge and covers a large region, we really hope the staff cuts don't mean stories about Falls Church dads who can't build treehouses go [...]
The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union for Washington Post employees, sent its members a memo this afternoon on the Post's buyout offer, announced this morning. The paper is trying to eliminate 48 jobs from about 200 people eligible to volunteer to leave.
The union says the Post is offering 2.5 weeks of pay for each year employees [...]
More hard times ahead at the Washington Post, which you may recall is the money-losing newspaper division of the Kaplan test prep and for-profit education empire. This morning, editors sent staff a memo offering a voluntary buyout, at least the fifth since 2004. All the staff reductions have apparently taught the Posties a lesson in [...]
Is Our Deer Learning?: Maybe it's not too late to change the award-winning designs of some of the new libraries around town. Because, apparently, the local fauna have trouble with lots of windows. A deer crashed through the plate glass in the interim library in Washington Highlands today, shattering the window; the deer had to [...]
The Washington Post surveyed 800 black women—and published the wrong story about the results on A1 today. Readers learned that black women are more religious than white women, less worried about romance than others, and feel pretty good about themselves. But if they wanted to know how black women compared to other groups, they'd have to go online [...]
In the comments of a Post magazine story about a woman who divorced her husband after he had a debilitating stroke, columnist Robert McCartney notes things got very nasty, very quickly:
Writers didn’t stop at condemning Ivie for divorcing her first husband, an act that they said violated her marriage vows. They went on (and on), [...]
Well, well, a familiar name—in red type, even!—was below the fold of the Sunday Outlook section in the Post. City Paper's brilliant and fearless leader Michael Schaffer wrote an essay arguing that Mayor Vince Gray has done exactly what he promised: Very little.
“Measure us on the things I said we were going to do,” Gray said at [...]
The Post's new ladyblog—She The People—has a post musing on why Callista Gingrich, third wife of GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, isn't acting like The Other Woman. It includes such gems as:
Whether intentionally or not, the image she presents is all wife and no mistress. Formal and reserved in her red blazers, ruby lipstick and [...]
Thinking more about the story on race and school suspension disparities has me wondering why the Post chose to highlight the troll-baiting fact that black kids get suspended more often. That's kind of a gimme, based on the factors they mention: higher rates of poverty tend to mean more behavioral issues.
What's far more interesting is [...]
The Post has a new report up showing that black students in the Washington area are suspended and expelled "two to five times as often" as white students:
Last year, for example, one in seven black students in St. Mary’s County were suspended from school, compared with one in 20 white students. In Alexandria, black students [...]
My colleague Jonathan L. Fischer talks with the Post's Ned Martel, who says D.C. should be on par with New York and LA when it comes to getting first-run indie films:
So are Martel and his sources right? I called Peter Knegt, a box-office analyst and associate editor at Indiewire, who says that generally speaking, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and Austin [...]
I wonder at the placement of a policy-heavy piece on Nancy Pelosi in the Post's Style section this morning:
You can disagree with the House minority leader, of course, or spend at least $65 million running 161,203 ads against her, as Republicans did in the past election cycle. But she hasn’t been slowed or trivialized. Even out [...]
Do you wish to be Correct? The Post has a piece on the love affair a certain cohort of Washington women have with Ann Taylor:
Ann Taylor is the capital of Appropriate Attire. It’s where aspiration meets motivation meets resignation, and that is why it is perfect for Washington. It represents the vision of what having [...]
