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Patricia Sullivan

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Covers:  virginia, arlington, alexandria
Former Washington Post reporter (ret.) Founded Good Morning Silicon Valley, one of first blogs. Feminist, environmentalist, gardener.
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A Florida assisted care facility sheltered in place for Irma. The power went out. For three days.

A Florida assisted care facility sheltered in place for Irma. The power went out. For three days.

The Washington Post — An assisted care facility for patients with dementia and memory impairment that sheltered in place during Hurricane Irma went without power for three days as elderly patients suffered in the rising heat.
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Pipelines and protests: Why environmentalists oppose funneling natural gas under the Potomac Rive...

Pipelines and protests: Why environmentalists oppose funneling natural gas under the Potomac Rive...

The Washington Post — The pipeline that TransCanada wants to build is short, 3.5 miles, cutting through the narrowest part of Maryland. It would duck briefly under the Potomac River at this 1,500-resident town, bringing what business leaders say is much-needed natural gas to the eastern panhandle of West Virginia.
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Trail tracking: Sensors gather data on Mount Vernon path

Trail tracking: Sensors gather data on Mount Vernon path

Washington Post — As approximately 2,000 bikers, runners and walkers use the 18.1-mile National Park Service's Mount Vernon Trail each day, they unknowingly trip a series of sensors. Those dozen sensors are connected to counters, which over time will tell a tale of who is using the route and at what times.
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Businesses watch and wait for Columbia Pike's future

Businesses watch and wait for Columbia Pike's future

Washington Post — Like dozens of other entrepreneurs, small and large, Torres is waiting for the county's ambitious re-imagining of Columbia Pike to fully flower. It's been 25 years in the making. Construction cranes are ubiquitous along the 4 1/ 2-mile thoroughfare, which runs southwest from the soaring Air Force Memorial overlooking the Pentagon to the high-rise Skyline neighborhood in Fairfax County along Leesburg Pike. But Arlington planners and leaders envision far more than piecemeal commercial and residential development along this four-lane stretch of post-World War II brick apartment complexes and 1950s-vintage strip malls.
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Arlington bus stop costs cool $1 million

Arlington bus stop costs cool $1 million

Washington Post — The glass-and-steel roof swoops up like a bird taking flight. A wall made of etched glass opens the rear vista to newly planted landscaping. Embedded in the floor are heating elements intended to ward off the cold weather and keep winter-weary feet cozy. The location, near Columbia Pike and Walter Reed Drive, is perfectly positioned to take advantage of Arlington County’s growing night life and ethnic restaurants. And the price tag: $1 million. "Is this made of gold?" asked commuter Yohannes Kaleab, examining the concrete-and-stainless-steel bench that is part of the new, seven-figure bus shelter.
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Through segregation, integration, genrification, pharmicist perseveres

Through segregation, integration, genrification, pharmicist perseveres

Washington Post — Green Valley Pharmacy and Leonard Muse have served the historically black community of Nauck in Arlington County since the 1940s. He has rarely talked to the news media, except when he was trying to push the community to tackle a persistent drug-dealing problem.
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Patricia Sullivan - Reporter

Patricia Sullivan - Reporter

Washington Post — Patricia Sullivan has worked at the Washington Post since 2001, editing the local technology page, writing news obituaries, working in the newsroom's information technology department and covering breaking news. She previously was executive online editor at The Industry Standard in San Francisco, an online editor and online columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and a reporter at newspapers in Montana, Florida and Illinois. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1992-93.
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The chocolatiers and the white nationalist, coexisting in Old Town Alexandria

The chocolatiers and the white nationalist, coexisting in Old Town Alexandria

The Washington Post — Kim Gustafson, wearing her chef's smock, stood on the iron staircase of Blüprint Chocolatiers in the midday drizzle last Sunday to check out the growing crowd of protesters across the street.
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Alexandria spews 11 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac each year

Alexandria spews 11 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac each year

The Washington Post — Virtually every time it rains in Old Town Alexandria, the city's aged sewers spew raw sewage into the Potomac River - about 11.3 million gallons a year. The city, under orders from state and federal authorities, is launching an expensive effort to capture and contain overflows in three locations, which should fix much of the problem.
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In friendly Del Ray, a decidedly unneighborly dispute

In friendly Del Ray, a decidedly unneighborly dispute

The Washington Post — When architect Gaver Nichols designed three houses on a half-acre next to his home in Alexandria more than 20 years ago, he had a Utopian idea of "shared visual green space" - a physical manifestation of the camaraderie for which the Del Ray neighborhood is known. It hasn't worked out that way.
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