Margaret Barthel
@margaretbarthel
I cover politics and policy in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties for @wamu885. she/her. probably in a zoning meeting.
🚨🚨 My office stopped the largest toll increase in Dulles Greenway history.
This is a good reminder that almost everyone talking about "defunding NPR," whether supporting or opposing it, does not really understand how the *network* works and how funding works for NPR and all the member stations that carry *some* NPR programming. npr.org/2025/05/13/125…
My guess is that defunding NPR is ultimately going to leave behind a fairly large national media organization that moves further left as it becomes even more reliant on donors.
A few hours ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the Alaska Peninsula, just south of Sand Point. Local residents and summer visitors alike were able to evacuate thanks to federal tsunami advisories relayed through local public broadcasting stations. That’s the real world.…
Always making friends with the pets on assignment. Obviously with @tyronefoto
Statement from @ArlCountyBoard re: latest missing middle ruling: The Court of Appeals chose to hold a hearing following their June 24 order. That hearing was held Monday, July 8. The previous order was withdrawn pending the issuance of a new order after this week’s hearing.
Virginia Court of Appeals seems ... confused? ... about this procedural matter in the Arlington 'missing middle' lawsuit, about whether or not the trial court judge should have allowed a developer to join as a party to the original lawsuit against the zoning ordinance.