Matt Small
Journalist at WTOP-FM (Washington, DC)
Makin' invisible airwaves crackle with life at WTOP News.
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2 weeks ago |
wtop.com | Matt Small
This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland Supreme Court upheld a state law banning gun possession by people who have been sentenced to two years or more in prison, calling it comparable to a ban on gun possession by felons, whether the underlying crime was a felony or not.
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3 weeks ago |
wtop.com | Matt Small
President Donald Trump is terminating the head of the National Portrait Gallery, continuing his aggressive moves to reshape the federal government’s cultural institutions. Trump announced Friday on his Truth Social platform that he was ousting Director Kim Sajet, calling her a “ highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position.”Sajet, a Dutch citizen raised in Australia, was appointed to the post in 2013 by President Barack Obama.
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1 month ago |
wtop.com | Jessica Kronzer |Matt Small
Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled Tuesday her 2026 D.C. budget proposal, along with a supplemental 2025 budget proposal, which avoids tax increases and government layoffs but eliminates or alters some programs involving social services. The proposals address a funding gap created by Congress and look to invest in the city’s future, including in education and public safety. Bowser, alongside city officials, presented the budget at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Tuesday.
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1 month ago |
wtop.com | Matt Small
This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. Time is running out to indulge in the D.C. area’s Latin American Restaurant Weeks, which is being held to highlight the diverse flavors of Latin America. This is the first time Latin American Restaurant Weeks has held the event in the D.C. area.
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1 month ago |
wtop.com | Matt Small
A two-year-old girl is dead after being left alone in a hot car for hours in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Wednesday. Montgomery County first responders were called to a home in the Wheaton-Glenmont area just before 1:45 p.m. for an unresponsive child inside a car, police said in a news release. When they arrived, they found the girl who had been inside the car for several hours. She was taken to a local hospital, where she later died.
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