About Greater Greater Washington

Greater Greater Washington is devoted to improving the vitality of Washington, DC and the walkable cities and neighborhoods in the Washington metropolitan area, such as Alexandria, Arlington, Bethesda, College Park, Rockville, Silver Spring, Tysons Corner, and others.

Contact us

• Have a general question about this site? Email info@ggwash.org.
• Have a suggestion for a story we should cover? Email tips@ggwash.org.
• Want to submit a letter to the editor or a question? Email letters@ggwash.org.
• Running for office and want to talk to us about your candidacy? Email elections@ggwash.org.

Please note that we get a lot of suggestions and letters, and are all volunteers, so we can't promise to reply to your email, follow up on your suggestion, or post your letter.

Also, please see our submission policy, below.

Press inquiries

If you are a reporter on deadline and would like to speak to someone about an issue we cover on the blog for a story, you can call us at 202-6561-GGW (202-656-1449). Since we are all volunteers, we unfortunately cannot respond to other issues by phone.

Editorial team

• Founder and Editor-in-Chief: David Alpert
• Assistant Editor: Matt Johnson
• Night Editors: Aimee Custis, Jaime Fearer, Ksenia Kaladiouk, Malcolm Kenton, Dan Malouff, Alex Newman, Erik Weber
• Education & Family Editor: Ken Archer
• Elections editor: Jaime Fearer

Contributors

This blog features the voices of residents of the cities and towns in the Greater Washington area, both experts and amateurs, on their visions for making our region greater.

Current contributors:

David Alpert Ken Archer Jacques Arsenault Kevin Beekman David C. Alison Crowley John DeFerrari David Edmondson Eric Fidler Neil Flanagan Adam Froehlig Moira Gillick Steven Glazerman

Miles Grant Geoff Hatchard Bradley Heard Matt Johnson Ksenia Kaladiouk Malcolm Kenton Dan Malouff Rebecca Mills John Muller Steve Offutt Michael Perkins Rob Pitingolo Kurt Raschke

Dan Reed Ben Ross Matt Rumsey Miriam Schoenbaum Jamie Scott Jake Sticka Dave Stroup Celine Tobal Mitch Wander Bryan Weaver Erik Weber Cavan Wilk Steven Yates

Interested in becoming a contributor? Let us know at info@ggwash.org. Please include what topics you might be interested in writing about, and if you have writing on blogs or elsewhere that we can see, include a link.

We especially want to cover a wide variety of neighborhoods across the metro area, including the important discussions at ANC meetings and local boards everywhere.

All contributors are volunteers, but it's a great opportunity to share your thoughts with thousands of readers.

Submission policy

We welcome unsolicited submissions for articles or letters to the editor. We typically edit all articles for length and/or clarity. We have a team of volunteer editors who review posts, and it may take days or more for them to review your submission. By submitting an article or letter, you agree to let us edit and publish it at a convenient time based on our editing and publishing schedule.

If you submit an article or letter, unless we have a prior agreement to the contrary, you agree to allow Greater Greater Washington to publish it under any Creative Commons license and further grant us a a perpetual, transferrable, worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, publish, display, edit, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your submission for any purpose in any form and on any media.

Legal notes

Greater Greater Washington is an opinion site. All articles are the opinions of their authors and not necessarily those of the site's operators or editors.

Special thanks

The current design for Greater Greater Washington was created by Joey Katzen.