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 New West End Homeless Shelter Remains in Limbo, As Legal Challenges and Construction Errors Pile Up
The Aston homeless shelter is hardly the most tortured construction project in D.C. history. But as delays continue to pile up, it’s making a solid case for the most tormented one in the recent past. The 100-bed shelter has faced a double whammy in the past two weeks, even as it appeared to be on…
AG Brian Schwalb Is Suing Fort Myer, One of D.C.’s Biggest Contractors, for Water Pollution
This is a bit awkward: The D.C. government is suing one of its biggest, most influential contractors. Loose Lips hears that Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit against Fort Myer Construction last week, alleging that the company has been illegally dumping wastewater, petroleum, and other pollutants into the city’s stormwater system for years. The…
Two Years In, D.C.’s Tax Revision Commission Is Still Spinning Its Wheels. Will It Ever Have Answers?
A year and a half ago, Loose Lips warned that the city’s Tax Revision Commission looked set up to fail. About a year later, he wrote that the influential advisory group appeared to be melting down. Fast-forward another six months, and he’s about ready to stick a fork in the TRC. Incredibly, this commission of…