MY BYLINES
Back in July, Raphael Warnock was polling fourth in a crowded pool of candidates vying for the Georgia Senate seat held by incumbent Kelly Loeffler.
Six months later, he’s the state’s first ever Black senator.
He’s also the candidate that WNBA players endorsed over Loeffler, a partial owner of the Atlanta Dream. Loeffler had been...
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin scored his 700th regular-season NHL goal on February 22 against the New Jersey Devils. In typical Great Eight style, he beat goaltender MacKenzie Blackwood with a slap shot from the faceoff circle, assisted by Evgeny Kuznetsov and Nick Jensen. The Capitals bench poured onto the ice to briefly celebrate with their captain before play resumed.
Ovechkin is only the eighth player in NHL history to reach the milestone. He now joins the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, and Jaromír Jágr as one of the most productive goal scorers...
At the beginning of 2019, two professional women’s leagues operated in North America. The Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) was mostly made up of Canadian teams, with one apiece in China and the United States. The newer NWHL was finishing up its fourth season and had five teams, all based in the United States.
Then a series of events during this past summer changed the landscape of the entire sport forever...
Harrison Browne’s relationship
with hockey is far from over
More than half a year after his second Isobel Cup championship — and his (second) retirement — Harrison Browne is still making strides in advocating for inclusion in the hockey community. He spoke to a group of students at American University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday about his experiences as well as his future career plans.
While Browne’s already faced challenges in becoming the first publicly transgender athlete in a professional sports league in North America, retirement has presented a whole new set of obstacles...
Despite the cloudy skies and frequent rain on Tuesday, residents of Precinct 10 in Washington’s Northwest neighborhoods near American University traveled to Horace Mann Elementary School to cast their votes in this year’s midterm elections.
Broadcast television producer David Thompson, 69, always votes.
“I come out for every election because people died so I could vote,” Thompson said. “It’s the least I can do to walk two blocks to get here....
In a state where dairy sales represent half of all agricultural sales every year, farmers are struggling to stay afloat. From 1982 to 2012, New York State has gone from 17,236 individual dairy farms down to only 5,427 farms. In just a thirty year period, more than two-thirds of the state’s dairies have gone out of business.
This trend won’t come as a complete surprise to most residents of the state, though. After all, who hasn’t seen old farmlands sold off and developed into housing developments or new businesses? It’s a fate that...
