Dana Hedgpeth

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Jack Fitzgerald, who built car dealership empire, dies at 89 (washingtonpost.com) Jack Fitzgerald, who built car dealership empire, dies at 89 By Dana Hedgpeth 2025041814160600 Jack Fitzgerald, who built an empire of East Coast car dealerships with a novel "no haggle, no hassle" sales pitch and played a key role in a lobbying effort that helped save hundreds of dealerships during the 2008 recession, died April 8 at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Dana Hedgpeth

Mother duck lays 8 eggs on downtown D.C. building’s rooftop terrace (washingtonpost.com) Mother duck lays 8 eggs on downtown D.C. building’s rooftop terrace By Dana Hedgpeth 2025041710000000 Nick Olsen first noticed the mother duck while he was setting up for an event one morning on the rooftop terrace of D.C.'s Planet Word museum two weeks ago. "I was like, 'What's going on?'" said Olsen, an events manager at the museum.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Dana Hedgpeth

Virginia scientists work to save salamander decimated by Hurricane Helene (washingtonpost.com) Virginia scientists work to save salamander decimated by Hurricane Helene By Dana Hedgpeth 2025041710000000 The population of eastern hellbenders — North America's largest salamander — was decimated in southwest Virginia last September when deadly Hurricane Helene struck and caused some of the worst flooding along the East Coast in decades.

1 week ago | adn.com | Dana Hedgpeth

About $1.5 million in grants to digitize archival records and collect first-person accounts of Native Americans who attended U.S. government-run boarding schools have been cut as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to drastically reshapecultural programs and transform the federal government.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Dana Hedgpeth

NEH cuts $1.5 million from grants to research Indian boarding schools (washingtonpost.com) NEH cuts $1.5 million from grants to research Indian boarding schools By Dana Hedgpeth 2025041611000000 About $1.5 million in grants to digitize archival records and collect first-person accounts of Native Americans who attended U.S. government-run boarding schools have been cut as part of the Trump administration's efforts to drastically reshape cultural programs and transform the federal government....