Ryan Belmore
Local news owner-operator, @alexandriabrief.com + @whatsupnewp.com
📍Alexandria, Va via Newport, RI.
Email: ryan@alexandriabrief.com
Signal: RyanBelmore.703
- The podium for the kids and the kids answering questions from the press here is pretty darn good.
- How long do you have to live somewhere before it becomes where you're "from"? I lived in Rhode Island for 39 years before moving to Alexandria almost 5 years ago. When someone asks where I'm from, I answer based on the context— but at what point does that change? 5 years? 10 years? Never?
- Editor’s note: Mayor Gaskins posts daily video updates on social media. The Alexandria Brief tracked those updates during the storm response. This is our last daily recap unless significant news warrants continued coverage.
- Just heard from Pat Miller, market manager of Del Ray Farmers Market. The market is on its normal Saturday schedule, and composting will be available. The market did not open last Saturday due to ice—the first cancellation in more than 30 years.
- TGIF. Here's what's happening in Alexandria today. Quick PSA: If you're a secret city council candidate planning to file at 6:59 p.m., just know I have weekend plans. A heads up would be lovely. 😆
- ACPS board member Ryan Reyna asked the district tonight to consider adding snow days to future calendars, citing the challenges families faced with virtual learning during the recent storm. "Our teachers teach best and our students learn best when they're physically together in a classroom."
- ACPS is proposing cuts to middle school Latin and Chinese programs. Budget constraints are real. Enrollment has declined. But I've covered several meetings now where people have shown up to speak. (1/3)
- Middle schoolers at microphones. Teachers who've built programs for 20 years. A senior who studied abroad because of a class she took in 6th grade. Tonight, student reps sent a formal letter with 120+ signatures asking the board to find alternatives. (2/3)
- In a school system where students speak 127 languages, these programs aren't extras. They're bridges. In a time when building walls gets more attention than building bridges, maybe these are worth building, not cutting. Instead of “don’t cut”, let’s ask as a community “what can we do” (3/3)
- Washington Post employees gathered outside the company’s headquarters today, following mass layoffs announced yesterday. According to a reporter on the scene, hundreds of people attended the protest. www.instagram.com/reels/DUYoU6...
- Having worked closely for RKK for nearly a decade, I can tell you he never did anything for awards or accolades. It was about family, team, and community. But he and Bill Belichick deserve to be first-ballot Hall of Famers. The Hall will catch up eventually. It has to. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
- Laying blame for what happened at WaPo where it belongs.
