Daisy Ridgway Khalifa

Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Washington, D.C., United States

Journalist and Correspondent at Freelance

Parent, worker, observer, and writer who covers defense, national security, energy, infrastructure, history and real-time anthropology.

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Pedestrian Palooza: Community, cuisine, car-less streets

Jul 21, 2024 | virginialiving.com | Madeline Mayhood |Dawn Klavon |Richard Ernsberger Jr. |Daisy Ridgway Khalifa

Lazy afternoons spent strolling down King Street in Old Town Alexandria are about to get better. The car-free, pedestrian portion of the street is here to stay—perfect for window shopping, stopping for a bite or an ice cream cone, and meandering with friends. Implemented to promote walkability, outdoor dining, and event activation, the pedestrian zone gained huge popularity as a pilot project for summertime, with 90 percent of surveyed residents supporting it becoming permanent.
From the LA Files: #3

Jan 17, 2024 | daisyridg.substack.com | Daisy Ridgway Khalifa

When, as an adult, I moved from my home town of Los Angeles and hitched my horse to the neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia, I constantly conjured “the equivalents”. Because I am so inclined to sitting in the drivers seat and just tooling around — it’s a love of cars, and a love of roads that caused that— I would often try to match a street, or avenue, or boulevard, to its counterpart in Los Angeles—the equivalents.
Underestimating ...Ourselves

Nov 21, 2023 | daisyridg.substack.com | Daisy Ridgway Khalifa

There is a period during my nightly sleep when I have the most morbid, angst-laced and downright wicked thoughts—thoughts that are so unpleasant that I would never share them with the rest of the world. Well, almost never. It is that hour, seems to be between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., that I say things to myself, in my head, that are just dark. I mean, absolutely everything comes to the surface. Whether it is true, or not, probably doesn’t matter. They are condemning, haunting judgments.
SWAHK. #1: DON'T TOUCH MY HAT

Aug 8, 2023 | daisyridg.substack.com | Daisy Ridgway Khalifa

With all the worker strikes afoot— some resolved and some hopelessly unresolved— it is refreshing to hear about an employer who put his employees first from the very beginning. John B. Stetson, maker of the iconic 10-gallon hat that he called “the Boss of the Plains”, was the son of a hat maker. A northeast Yankee and a true city boy by any measure, Stetson gets the credit, more or less, for inventing the dearest emblem of the American West, the cowboy hat.