Alex joined City Paper as Loose Lips in January 2022, following stops at a variety of D.C.-area media outlets. At publications including the Washington Business Journal, ARLnow, and InsideNoVa, he focused on the region’s housing crisis, the arrival of Amazon HQ2, and local politics of all kinds. A Northern Virginia native and Virginia Tech grad, Alex spends his time away from work watching too much TV, obsessing over his hometown Pittsburgh teams, and trying to sample all the world’s gins.
Alex’s latest stories
A Top Organizer of the Charles Allen Recall Campaign Wants a Restraining Order Against One of Her Opponents
If Loose Lips took every person that said mean things about him online to court, he’d never have time to do anything else. One of the lead organizers behind the campaign to recall Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen apparently has a lot more time on her hands. April Brown, a local realtor and the treasurer…
Could a Group of Bowser Pals and NIMBYs Scuttle a Traffic Safety Project in Petworth?
What does it take to get a private meeting with one of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s agency heads? Loose Lips probably isn’t the best authority on this subject, considering most avoid him like the plague these days. But LL suspects that a obsequious relationship with the mayor herself couldn’t hurt. The question has been at the…
D.C.’s Youth Probation Agency Is Supposed to Help Kids. Many Say It’s Failing Them Completely.
This story was supported with funds from Spotlight DC—Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. Jackie Wright used to love her job. In more than 33 years working in various roles for D.C.’s youth probation agency, formally known as the Family Court Social Services Division, she formed bonds with many of the kids in her care. Wright…