Local (DC Area)

Links to news outlets located in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area that cover local news events, sometimes with additional coverage of national and international news, especially when it has a ‘local angle.’

ABC 7 News (WJLA)
Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
Fox 5 DC (WTTG)
Corporate-owned Fox affiliate in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
InsideNoVa
A news outlet covering “Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford, Culpeper, Fauquier and Loudoun counties.”
Loudoun Now
A “nonprofit news organization that serves Loudoun County, Virginia.”
Loudoun Times-Mirror
Local weekly newspaper covering Loudoun County, Virginia.
NBC4 Washington (WRC-TV)
Corporate-owned NBC affiliate in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
NoVA Scanner
A local aggregator that “brings you news from Northern Virginia.”
States Newsroom – D.C. Bureau
The “News From the States” D.C. Bureau by States Newsroom, covering D.C. local government news.
States Newsroom – Maryland Matters
An outlet aiming to be “the premier site for news about Maryland government and politics.”
States Newsroom – Virginia Mercury
An “independent, nonprofit online news organization covering [Virginia] state government and policy.”
The Center Square – Maryland
Offers “high-quality statehouse and statewide news” for Maryland.
The Center Square – Virginia
Offers “high-quality statehouse and statewide news” for Virginia.
WTOP.com
Provides “the latest local news, traffic[,] and weather information to the Washington, D.C., region.”
WUSA 9 (CBS)
Tegna-owned CBS affiliate in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

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P. J. O’Rourke

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

George Washington

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Edgar Allan Poe

At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps of men—those who reject and those who worship God—becomes irrepressible.

Whittaker Chambers

The family, based on the marital commitment of husband and wife, is the original and best ministry of health, education, and welfare.

Robert George

Nothing is done, unless the Almighty wills it to be done, either by permitting it, or by actually doing it.

Augustine of Hippo

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved . . . ; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness.

Sigmund Freud

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Holy Bible

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

Charles Spurgeon

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Gertrude Stein

Nothing can come of nothing.

William Shakespeare

All can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Lao Tsu

A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy . . . , but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

[Inflation is] a hidden tax that can be imposed without having been voted—taxation without representation.

Milton Friedman

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.

C. S. Lewis

Christians are made, not born.

Tertullian

When you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

God reigneth. All is well.

Oliver Wendell Holmes