The best-kept secret at the
Washington Post is not who will replace Marty Baron as executive editor. It’s who runs the
Post‘s Peloton account.
Reports of the
Post Peloton account have bouncedaroundonsocialmedia for a couple of months. People seem most likely to encounter the
Post Peloton account when they unexpectedly receive a “high-five” from it after completing a workout or hitting a milestone. (As the partners of several
Washingtonian employees have patiently explained to me, Peloton users can buy a subscription from the company that allows others to congratulate you when you accomplish something.)
Having a presence on Peloton is in line with the Post’s engagement goals. As Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, then a
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I.M.P. and Monumental Sports and Entertainment want DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to set July 1 as the day when they can reopen their venues at full capacity.
In a letter to Bowser sent last week, the local presenters offered to make their venues which include Capital One Arena, the Anthem, the 9:30 Club, and others available as vaccination centers, and to provide buses to “transport medical workers to communities in need of vaccinations or bring residents to vaccination sites.” They also say they could organize “faith leaders, athletes from the Washington Capitals, the Washington Wizards, and the Washington Mystics, and our staff” to promote vaccination.
Westmoreland State Park. Photograph by zrfphoto/iStock.
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 9, and it’s the second time in many years that Mom may wish for a little
less time with the fam. So while you could take your partner to brunch, or provide some sort of limited spa experience (free idea: Bluetooth shower speaker), perhaps a good present would be vamoosing altogether?
There are lots of great campsites around the Washington area to which generous caregivers could disappear with the kids for a night or two. Take it from someone who’s survived solo camping trips with multiple children while watching the hours tick by: The key is scheduling your activities in advance, bringing lots of snacks to keep them out of your hair, and strictly enforcing bedtimes. Just be sure to make a reservation for your spot in advance so you don’t show up back home a couple hours later.
All four of Virginia and Maryland’s US senators want President Biden to restart the search for a new FBI headquarters, a process that was under way until former President Trump knocked it off-track.
Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia sent Biden a letter Friday asking him to direct the Department of Justice and the General Services Agency to “move forward expeditiously” with the plan to move the agency off Pennsylvania Avenue, where its brutalist headquarters is falling apart and is just one of more than a dozen sites in the region across which FBI employees are spread. The GSA named three sites around Washington in 2014 where the agency could consolidate its operations: one near the Greenbelt Metro station, one at the former Landover Mall, and another in Springfield.
Management has advice for any
Washington Post newsroom employees who are wondering which parades and festivals they can pencil into their summer calendars:
It’s fine, as long as you’re not expressing public advocacy. So, Pride is fine. Juneteenth is great. July 4 go nuts.
But, a memo Monday from
Post honchos warns: “Context matters: It would be fine to participate in a celebration at BLM plaza but not a protest there or attend a Pride gathering but not a demonstration at the Supreme Court.” The same rubric applies to issues like DC statehood: “details matter. A shirt with the flag of the District of Columbia is fine. One supporting statehood would not be – that would be an expression of public advocacy on a matter we cover.”